Green office pet peeves
Every week I get a couple of PR pieces sent to me. I normally ignore them, but I quite liked this 'survey' from Xerox about...
Don’t be blinded by recycling!
Once again recently I was proudly told by a factory manager "We don't have a waste problem - we recycle 95% of it - isn't...
Weekly Tip #10: The Toddler Test
This is the tenth in a series of tips extracted from the forthcoming Green Business Bible e-book:Go through everything your business does - every process...
Can carbon dioxide be a resource?
Yesterday I was on Teesside looking at the results of a remarkable project that I had a small hand in about 5 years ago. In...
Weekly Tip #9: Compressed Air
This is the ninth in a new series of tips extracted from the forthcoming Green Business Bible e-book:If you have compressed air on site, buy...
Acronym of the Month Award goes to…
DRAM, or Device for the Remediation and Attenuation of Multiple pollutants, is a project at Aberdeen University and uses, yes, whisky by-products to remediate contaminated...
Chemical Companies Cool on Communications
Worrying headline on this months ENDS Report: apparently chemical companies are backing off their former approach of publishing annual environmental and sustainability reports. Only a...
Tip of the Week #8: Staff Committees
This is the eighth in a new series of tips extracted from the forthcoming Green Business Bible e-book:It is well understood that cultural change is...
Carbon Trust Label Revisited
I saw a presentation by the Carbon Trust yesterday on Teesside. It was excellent and the presenter was full of enthusiasm - helped no doubt...
Weekly Tip #7: Keep it short, stupid
This is the seventh in a new series of tips extracted from the forthcoming Green Business Bible e-book:Save paper by discouraging epic reports. You don’t...