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7 Green Startup Ideas for Eco-Friendly Entrepreneurs

eco friendly business startup ideas

Every day an entrepreneur somewhere in the world will attempt to start their own business venture in a bid to better their lives, but imagine the satisfaction of starting a business that better the lives…

Improve Your CSR and Improve Your Profits

csr and profit

Being eco-friendly doesn’t have to be counterproductive to running a successful business. It can, in fact, be beneficial because having a strong Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy in place can help to improve profits. Over…

Compete with Caution: The Limits of Greening Behavior with Competitions

green competition

When an organisation decides to go green, the first question is the simplest: How do we do it? Often, one of the first answers to come to mind is to host a competition. In fact,…

Go Green – Or Go Home

Go Green

Companies are slowly realising the importance of ‘going green’ – not just in terms of helping to save the planet, but for their own reputation and to secure futures in their market. You may have…

Hemp – An Environmental Super Crop?

hemp and the environment

If you have been following my blog for a while, you’ll know that I stopped drinking cow’s milk and found a much lower carbon alternative in oat milk that is tasty and healthy. Well I’ve…

How Sustainable Is Livestock As A Food Source?

Livestock Industry

In the third post in my series on the environmental impacts of agriculture, I am looking into livestock and how the rearing of animals for food is putting pressure on many resources while contributing to…

Fertiliser Flaws & Pesticide Problems

Fertiliser Flaws & Pesticide Problems

In the second of my posts looking into the environmental impact of modern agriculture, I am exploring the use of fertilisers and pesticides to boost crop yields and what damage they could be doing to…

Monocropping: Necessity Or Environmentally Neglectful?

Monoculture Farming

I have been thinking about the environmental impact of food and drink for a while now; indeed it was one of my green New Year’s resolutions to eat a lower impact diet and I started…

The First Steps To A Greener Business

Greener Business

Businesses contribute a large percentage of the overall carbon footprint of the UK and it’s not just huge multinationals that can help change this; small and medium sized businesses with just a handful of staff…