Posted on 26 October 2008
Nottinghamshire County Council publishes a great magazine called Living for Tomorrow. It’s all about Notts people putting sustainable solutions into practice. The latest edition included a very inspiring article about making workspaces greener in a building where I used to work.
The Green Group at the Nottingham Council for Voluntary Service (in the Voluntary Action Centre) [...]
Tags: Fair Trade, office, organic, Recycling, workplaces
Posted on 08 September 2008
I’ve been expecting a green backlash for a long time. To be honest I thought it would happen sooner and be much more aggressive. Of course there are still the ‘climate sceptics’ and we could all think of individuals who simply refuse to believe that doing their bit can help change the world but [...]
Tags: Business, ethical business, green business, greenwash, marketing, terminology
Posted on 19 July 2008
I just wanted to let you all know about our new blog over at Make Hay Ethical E-Media.
For a little while now I’ve been having lots of fun writing Make Hay newsletters for our clients, providing news about what we’ve been up to and links and resources to help ethical business owners and we thought [...]
Tags: blogging, ethical web design, green web hosting, Make Hay Ethical E-Media
Posted on 15 May 2008
As little girls we all wanted a Barbie Doll, as grown women we all wanted to be Barbie. Face it, as the saying goes “the bitch has everything”, the dream house, car, and guy, not to mention she’s had every career under the sun. Barbie’s been an astronaut, school teacher, nurse, business woman, Rock Star, and we’ve [...]
Tags: San Francisco, US, Shopping
Posted on 08 May 2008
You may have seen a very interesting video knocking around the internet lately from the innovative organisation Carrotmob. In this video called ‘We Make it Rain‘ they use consumer power to turn a regular grocery store to a much more environmentally friendly one. I don’t want to give too much away, you really need to [...]
Tags: Shopping, Sustainability
Posted on 06 May 2008
As great green girls you probably already know all about this but just in case…!
The Federation of Small Business has just launched a national petition which calls on the Government to pay special attention to securing the future of independent shops across the UK.
You can sign here on the 10 Downing Street website. It [...]
Tags: Business, Politics, Shopping
Posted on 16 April 2008
I’ve read a lot of books and I do mean A LOT on living green, being green, and doing green; and I’ve come to the point where I’ve almost stopped reading them because after a while you realize they are quite redundant of each other.
So when Go Rich, Live Green by David Bach with Hilary [...]
Tags: Education, San Francisco, US
Posted on 07 April 2008
For the past couple of weeks I have been busy organising my second green fair. I loved organising the green Christmas fair in December so much so that I decided to dive head long into the preparations of a ‘Spring Green Eco Fair’ this month
Now whilst the emphasis of the Christmas fair had been ethical [...]
Tags: Shopping, Warwick, UK
Posted on 22 March 2008
Raising my boys on healthy doses of competitive sports over the years, I have had many opportunities to talk about what it means to have a game feel fair, regardless of win or loss. Teaching young players a healthy respect for their teammates, their opponents and the opportunity to do their best is what [...]
Tags: Families, Shopping, Sustainability
Posted on 20 March 2008
I have been real busy these days - amongst several projects I am making an entrepreneurial green kit together with a group of mighty fine ladies from Morgendagens Heltinder (a danish business women network).
So far we are in the process of making a giant brainstorm meeting with green experts from all over Denmark.
Our first task [...]
Tags: Denmark