Sustainability: a drop in the ocean?
The One Ocean Summit in Brest aims to mobilise the international community to take tangible action to save the ocean. Yet another emergency for the stricken planet. Part one: taking stock.
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Luxury, biodiversity and the sixth mass extinction
At five points in the past 500 million years, life on Earth was almost completely wiped out. We are now on the brink of a sixth mass extinction, and we are the cause. Can humans right their wrongs? The luxury industry must lead by example.
"We are at the service of the François I of the twenty-first century"
Fabien Lamarche, founder of Julien Coudray 1518, has a passionate interest in the Renaissance and the artistic crafts. He advocates a return to handcrafted watchmaking that is rooted in beauty and continuity, and conceives each watch as a work of art.
Giuseppe Verdi, watchmaker
2013 is Verdi year, marking the bicentenary of the birth of the great Italian composer whose operas are loved and enjoyed the world over. The heroes and heroines immortalised in Verdi's scores are anything but paragons of the past. On the contrary, I'm convinced that managers have useful lessons to learn from these romanza.
