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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 most [...]

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 [...]

This is my final instalment of articles about our experiences at Make Hay of working to be a green and ethical company. This article is related to my previous posts where I talked about using ethical suppliers and encouraging others with your ethical policy. Just to recap, the previous articles were: Part 1 – Powered [...]

This morning at the ECO:nomics conference being held here in California Lee Scott Jr., president and CEO of the retail giant Wal-Mart announced “We are not green”!  I shrug my shoulders and say tell me something I didn’t already know, to others this has been headline news. I’m not a fan of the store and [...]

In my 3 previous ‘How can a web design company be green and ethical?’ articles I focused on the business as a consumer. However, of course, the main purpose of a business is to provide either a service or a product. So how can you make sure that as a service provider you’re working in [...]

In my first two installments ‘Powered by the Wind‘ and ‘Waste? What Waste?‘ I talked a lot about saving energy and materials. In this third part I want to highlight how businesses can be greener by thinking carefully about where they buy. PART 3 – BE A SMART CONSUMER I remember hearing a news report [...]

Last week, in my post ‘Powered by the Wind‘, I talked about how our web design company, Make Hay, works to be green and ethical by the power and energy we use . This week I want to talk about waste, or at least how to waste less in an office-based business like ours. In [...]