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To have a positive impact, you need to be profitable – that’s where exceptional™ comes in

By Iain Scott

When were the first commercial solar panels installed? The noughties? The ‘90s? If you guessed the ‘80s, you’re half right… but half wrong. Boston-born inventor Charles Fritts installed the first solar array on a New York City rooftop in the 1880s. Fritts’s panels weren’t just a science experiment. They were a genuine attempt to commercialise […]

Cheesemonger to changemaker: Why I needed to change the way I worked

By Anna Corbett

I grew up in Germany’s Black Forest. Sounds spooky – the sort of place children get tricked by witches or somehow struggle to tell the difference between their grandmother and a wolf in a nightgown. I loved it. My childhood home was secluded, in a field hidden deep within the woods. We couldn’t see our […]