This is the latest of a series of tips extracted from the forthcoming Green Business Bible e-book*:

When looking for innovative environmental solutions, look at how businesses in completely different sectors use technology. You may find an approach that no-one has ever applied to your line of business. Most ‘innovation’ is from this kind of cross-fertilisation – James Dyson got the idea of putting a cyclone in a vacuum cleaner from the air purification system in a saw mill.