The Spark
News, insights and commentary from NS
Is the Halted Effort to Put Wind Turbines in Lake Erie Being Revived?
Peter Krouse | cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio — Could the once-ambitious plan to install wind turbines on Lake Erie be resurre...
Plastic Waste: a Growing Challenge the Circular Economy Can Combat
Nottingham Spirk The world is awash in plastic, and the problem is getting worse every year. More than half of the estimated ...
Biomimicry: The Future of Innovation
Nottingham Spirk Northeast Ohio has long been known as a center for medtech innovation. But there’s another sector in which G...
Top 5 Consumer Product Innovation Trends
Nottingham Spirk We’re asked all the time, “What’s next?” That’s a hard question to answer; there are too many factors involv...
If Sustainability is the New Religion, Maybe it Belongs in Church
Design partners John Nottingham and John Spirk thought so. Saving a beautiful old church and rehabbing it as a den of creativ...