What would you ban, if you could?
"Hurrah!", shouted the green world, as the neonicotinoid pesticides blamed by everybody (except their producers and their political allies) for the worrying decline in bee...
Yes, No or Maybe?
Mar 14, 2012
I've often said that the litmus test for a green business is not so much what good things they do as what bad things they...
Toxic Legacies
Aug 5, 2011
My first paid "green" job was researching techniques for the eco-design of "large made to order products" such as oil platforms, ships and process plant...
Toxic Sludge vs The Oil Spill
Oct 13, 2010
I find it quite incredible that the Hungarian 'toxic sludge' disaster has only had a tiny fraction of the press coverage as, say, the BP...
Weekly Tip(s) #47: Design it out
Mar 9, 2009
This is the latest of a series of tips extracted from the Green Business Bible e-book:Design out environmental problems - McDonough and Braungart have a...
Weekly Tip #36: Black & Grey Lists
Dec 1, 2008
This is the latest of a series of tips extracted from the Green Business Bible e-book:Develop ‘grey’ and ‘black’ lists for your business to filter...
A Greener Apple
Jun 9, 2007
I'm writing this on a three and a half year old Mac PowerBook. Us Mac users are notoriously sanctimonious and, often, downright snooty when it...