Richard Miller: Reflections from one of the UK's first sustainability execs

James Murray
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Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BusinessGreen Technology Awards, Richard Miller reveals the thinking that shaped a career in sustainability and innovation

Richard Miller can't be sure he was the UK's first sustainability executive, but the funny looks he got in the 1990s led him to conclude he must have been one of the first. "I could not be sure I was unique...

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