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[|Forum for the Future] works with more than 120 leading businesses and organisations, focussing work on seven key areas: [|Finance] [|Built environment][|Retail] [|Climate change][|Transport] [|Procurement][|Travel & Tourism]

Cards
Innovation guru Clayton Christensen coined the term disruptive technology or innovation, as “that which improves a product or service in ways that the market does not expect”. The sustainable economy of the future depends on just such disruptions to move us away from current unsustainable technologies and business models at the pace we need.

Forum for the Future is looking for innovative ways to approach sustainability. They have developed a set of cards to help innovators come up with game-changing, disruptive ideas - each one capturing a different method of thinking ‘outside the box’.

The Forum's aim is to catalyse disruptions for sustainability and the set of 12 cards is a first step. The cards are in 'beta' but Forum for the Future have started to use them internally, with partners and for larger projects, and initial feedback has been great. We want people to experiment with the cards and give us an idea of how they could be developed. We held a competition for ideas about how the cards could be used - see link below for results.

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Elsewhere on the Web
[|Disruptive Innovation competition results]

Green Futures
[|Green Futures] was founded in 1996. The objective is to lead the debate on how to achieve a sustainable future – one that’s both practical and attractive. The special publications are targeted at an informed, intelligent, but non-specialist audience, with a particular emphasis on decision-makers and opinion-formers in business, government, education and the campaigning world.

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Travel and Tourism
Sustainable holidays and travel will be an important part of a sustainable future – they provide fun, leisure, time with our friends and family and a way to recharge our batteries. Travel and tourism add huge value to us and some of the economies that need it most. However it’s clear that there are major challenges and opportunities facing the tourism industry today. For more information on our travel and tourism work, you can email Vicky Murray: v.murray@forumforthefuture.org
 * Influencing tour operators’ core strategy - we work in partnership with major tour operators such as TUI Travel to help them become sustainable and profitable at the same time.
 * Creating working examples of sustainable holiday developments - we are working with the Minoan Group to create a sustainable tourism development in Crete.
 * Encouraging local sustainable tourism – through our work with South West Tourism and VisitBritain.
 * Developing sustainable forms of travel – through our work on sustainable transport.

[|travel and tourism blog]

[|Paradise Found] - A future where tourism benefits local economies and respects the environment is not only possible, it makes good business sense. So what does a sustainable tourism resort look like?

[|Viva la vida verde] focusing on the continuing search for sustainable practices in Mexico. The report was supported by the UK Government’s Sustainable Development Dialogues, WWF, TUI Travel PLC, Grupo Bimbo and Unilever.

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Low carbon journeys into Europe made easy [|Click here to find out more on the Overland Heaven project page.]
 * Overland Heaven**

Vision, scenarios and strategy for a sustainable UK outbound travel and tourism industry [|Click here to find out more on the Tourism 2023 project page.]
 * Tourism 2023**

Guidelines for sustainable tourism developments [|Click here to find out more on the Paradise Found project page.]
 * Paradise Found**

http://www.forumforthefuture.org/our-approach/tools-and-methodologies/TNS
 * Natural Step**

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 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Retrofit-141.jpg]] || [|The Future is Retro-fit] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/monsoons%20&%20miracles%20cover_141.jpg]] || [|Monsoons and Miracles] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Greening%20the%20Dragon-141.jpg]] || [|Greening the Dragon] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Feeding%20the%20future-141.jpg]] || [|Feeding the Future] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Hey%20big%20spenders-141.jpg]] || [|Hey Big Spenders!] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Climate%20of%20opportunity-141.jpg]] || [|Climate of Opportunity] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Coming%20clean-141.jpg]] || [|Coming Clean] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Hundred%20thousand-141.jpg]] || [|A Hundred Thousand Points of Light] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Life%20after%20death-141.jpg]] || [|Life after Death] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Light%20emerging-141.jpg]] || [|Light Emerging] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/More%20yellow-141.jpg]] || [|More yellow!! More cyan!!] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Our%20turn-141.jpg]] || [|Our Turn] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Out%20of%20the%20woods-141.jpg]] || [|Out of the Woods] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Sausage%20and%20mash-141.jpg]] || [|Sausage, Mash and Sustainability] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Regions%20to%20be%20cheerful-141.jpg]] || [|Regions to be Cheerful] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Rubbish%20or%20resource-141.jpg]] || [|Rubbish or Resource?] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Smaller%20splash-141.jpg]] || [|A Smaller Splash] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Small%20is%20powerful-141.jpg]] || [|Small is Powerful] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Slow%20burn-141.jpg]] || [|Slow Burn] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Big%20and%20clever-141.jpg]] || [|It is Big and it is Clever] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Brown%20field-141.jpg]] || [|Brown Field, Green Solution] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Centres%20of%20Inspiration-141.jpg]] || [|Centres of Inspiration] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/When%20companies%20go%20wild-141.jpg]] || [|When Companies go Wild...] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Sparks%20that%20last-141.jpg]] || [|Sparks that Last] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/All%20being%20well-141.jpg]] || [|All Being Well] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Warm%20justice-141.jpg]] || [|Warm Justice] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/When%20companies%20go%20wild-141.jpg]] || [|When Companies go Wild...] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Sparks%20that%20last-141.jpg]] || [|Sparks that Last] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/All%20being%20well-141.jpg]] || [|All Being Well] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Warm%20justice-141.jpg]] || [|Warm Justice] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/All%20being%20well-141.jpg]] || [|All Being Well] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Warm%20justice-141.jpg]] || [|Warm Justice] ||
 * [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/All%20being%20well-141.jpg]] || [|All Being Well] || [[image:http://www.forumforthefuture.org/files/Warm%20justice-141.jpg]] || [|Warm Justice] ||