Huge thanks to everyone who took part in this, the fifth Sustain Talk, staged in partnership with Design London's STIR Lectures. The speakers held their audience to account re-imagining futures predicated on big adjustments to businesses necessitated by global challenges such as climate change, food and energy security and population growth, and discussed the possibilities for business, and human society, to flourish within the ecological limits of a finite planet, with ballooning populations and a growing middle class.

Date: 16 February 2011
Chair: Clare Brass, Senior Tutor, Innovation Design Engineering, Royal College of Art.
Opening presentation: Jasleen Kaur, MA Goldsmithing Silversmithing Metalwork & Jewellery (2010)

Jonathon Porritt, writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development, former director of Friends of the Earth and co-chair of the Green Party and co-founder of Forum for the Future, the UK’s leading sustainable development charity, talked with Lindsey Parnell, CEO and President of InterfaceFLOR in Europe, who is deeply immersed in the corporate mission to make Interface a sustainable corporation through worldwide effort to design sustainable manufacturing and development processes.

Click here to see videos of previous Sustain Talks 2010/11.