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COMMENT: Using film to square up to the horrors of factory farming
Tracy Worcester
18th October, 2012
The campaigner behind the groundbreaking Pig Business documentary is now taking her message global, encouraging people to take action against industrial farming methods which degrade the environment and subject animals to a life of miserymore...
The Human Element: Ten New Rules to Kick-start Our Failing Organisations
Ian Tennant
24 September 2012
New management rules are essential to successful business.more...
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
Mark Newton
2nd February, 2012
If you only pick up one green book this year, make it Jeremy Rifkin’s The Third Industrial Revolution. It will change the way you think, says Mark Newton more...
Ashridge Business School
Ashridge is a world leader in executive education, a place where tradition meets innovation. Our MSc in Sustainability & Responsibility offers the opportunity to address the question of how you or your organisation can operate in a sustainable and responsible wayTel: 01442 841024
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Toxic fallout as activists challenge strawberry industry's pesticide use
Rosie Spinks
10th October, 2011
Faced with the potential use of a dangerous pesticide methyl iodide to spray crops in their backyards, a group of Californian teenagers decided to stand up to the might of industrial agribusiness. Rosie Spinks reports more...
Neal's Yard Remedies: organic skincare to feed the soul
Laura Sevier
14th September, 2011
Neal's Yard Remedies is a cut above other skincare companies in its commitment to natural ingredients. Laura Sevier speaks to owner Peter Kindersley about the brand's deep ecology more...
Behind the Brand: Google
Peter Salisbury
7th September, 2011
Unless you live on the moon, Google is an integral part of your day to day life, but just how ethical is the all-conquering search giant whose motto is ‘Don’t be Evil’? Peter Salisbury investigates more...
Green Business: Greenhouse Public Relations
Peter Salisbury
2nd August, 2011
Anna Guyer has made a name for her company by only taking clients with impeccable green credentials and refusing to ‘greenwash’ big brands. Peter Salisbury met her to find out more more...
Green Business: Bulldog
Peter Salisbury
29th June, 2011
A natural, Fairtrade men's skincare line might sound obvious, but when Simon Duffy and Rhodri Ferrier launched Bulldog, it was a wholly new concept. Peter Salisbury sits down with the men making grooming green more...
eco2Life
eco2life offers a range of household cleaning products with a unique refill and reuse system performing as well as the leading brand. We ensure all raw materials are naturally derived, from renewable resources, readily biodegradable and aquatic safeTel: 01625 250 301
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Green Business: Abel & Cole
Peter Salisbury
1st June, 2011
Keith Abel might not be much of an eco-warrior but he’s revolutionised the organic groceries sector – and made a mint in the process, says Peter Salisbury more...
Q&A: Environmental activist and writer, Trish Riley
Jeff Holman
26th April, 2011
According to Trish Riley, it’s absurd to think that individuals can save the planet - only big business has the clout to make a real difference. Utter nonsense or perfectly sensible? Jeff Holman caught up with her to find out more...
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The No-Nonsense Guide To Climate Change
Jeff Holman
17th March, 2011
In his brisk guide to the complex issue of climate change, Danny Chivers is out to convince you that this problem is one for the here and now more...
Green Business: Innocent
Peter Salisbury
9th March, 2011
What does Coca Cola’s 58 per cent share in one of the UK’s most distinctive and ethical brands mean for the future of the company? If you believe Innocent Drinks founder, Richard Reed, nothing but good. Peter Salisbury went to find out more more...
Green Business: Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard
Ruth Styles
9th February, 2011
From biodynamic farming methods to persuading people to give English wine another try, the Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard's Roy Cook is transforming the British wine industrymore...
Pig Business: the film the industrial pork lobby tried to silence
The Ecologist
3rd February,2011
Ahead of Pig Business's debut screening at the EU Parliament in Brussels, watch highlights from Tracy Worcester's mammoth investigation into the truth behind cheap pork more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Tracy Worcester, producer of Pig Business film
Matilda Lee
1st February, 2011
Her shocking film alerted unsuspecting consumers to the hidden costs of factory farmed pork. She talks to the Ecologist ahead of a special screening of Pig Business at the European Parliament more...
Green Business: Divine
Ruth Styles
21st January, 2011
Divine chocolate has blazed an ethical trail with its pioneering business model and Fairtrade principles. But does ethical also mean green? Divine MD Sophi Tranchell says that for her company, it does more...
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Top FTSE companies face investor backlash on biodiversity
Tom Levitt
20th December, 2010
Drug companies and the construction sector, both heavily reliant on natural resources, among the worst when it comes to acting to reduce their negative impact on biodiversity, says report more...
Green business: Ella's Kitchen
Eifion Rees
21st December, 2010
Organic baby food company Ella's Kitchen is already big in the UK and Scandinavia, and now aiming to crack the US. Co-founder Alison Lindley discusses the difficulties of keeping it green during a period of meteoric growth more...
Revealed: the glyphosate research the GM soy lobby doesn't want you to read
Claire Robinson
24th November, 2010
Andres Carrasco's research linking a controversial herbicide with birth defects highlighted the potential health dangers posed by GM crop-spraying in Argentina – and led to violence and intimidation for those behind the study more...
Green business: Lush
Eifion Rees
17th November, 2010
Cosmetics company Lush is a zero-packaging pioneer on the high street. In the first of our new 'Green business' series, founder Mark Constantine discusses gourmet consumerism, dream factories and why his ethical creation is a work in progress more...
Starting a business has never been so liberating...
Tom Hodgkinson
25 August 2010
Find the hidden entrepreneur in you to free yourself from slavery to corporate and state authority, says Tom Hodgkinson more...
Forget the 'big society'; we just need a co-operative one
Molly Scott Cato
16th August, 2010
Claims that we need a 'big society' to fix our 'broken' one are just Victorian throwbacks - we have the business tools to survive; we just need a co-operative attitude to go with them more...Members
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