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Make ‘green’ pay

With rocketing fuel prices, our minds are all being focused on what we can do to shrink our energy bills. Some look to the government to solve the problem, through lower duties or investment in indigenous power sources. But the government has its own money problems, which I won’t go into here, for fear of [...]

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Saving our most precious resource: time

Over the past few months, I’ve seen quite a number of videoconferencing systems, ranging from the desktop to huge room-sized affairs. The room-sized are probably beyond the remit of this blog. And I’ve written about some of the desktop ones before. I’m hoping to write about a new one very soon which, frankly, blows the [...]

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Green gimmicks and gadgets

Are you assaulted daily by people claiming to make you greener? Do you listen?
I must confess that I get irritated by many of them because they’re using my guilt to stuff their pockets with money. And, very often, what they’re offering as a ‘cure’ to CO2 emissions or pollution actually turn out to be emitters [...]

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Greening your fleet: a good idea?

We received a survey last week which was embargoed to yesterday. “Strange”, I thought, “to have a Sunday embargo on something.” On reading the survey, Behind the Wheel II from the Energy Saving Trust, the penny dropped. It’s the start of a new tax year and the content of the survey - about cars and [...]

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Who does China’s pollution belong to?

Last week the free Metro newspaper carried a front-page chart of carbon emissions by country. It looked like a chance to take a pop at the Chinese and the Americans who top the league of polluters by pumping out around four times as much CO2 as their nearest ‘competitor’ in these dismal stakes, Russia.
It occurred [...]

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IT-hosting could boost your green credentials

Last September, I wrote about web-hosting company Strato and its green credentials. Just before I went on hols (very nice thank you), our beloved leader, Alex, tipped me off about Rackspace, an IT-hosting company which is also busy turning itself green.
So I rummaged.
Strato is based in Germany where it has access to hydroelectric power [...]

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SmallBizPod #26 - Monday 24 April 2006

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Simon Coyles, CEO of Kschocolat, on growing your business through exports and the inspiration behind his chocolate brand.

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SmallBizPod #17 - Wednesday 23 November 2005

SmallBizPod #17 - Wednesday 23 November 2005

Clare Barclay head of small business at Microsoft, keeping in touch with the small business sector and the challenges and issues facing SMEs in the UK.

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SmallBizPod #38 - Thursday 25 January 2007

SmallBizPod #38 - Thursday 25 January 2007

Bill Taylor and Polly LaBarre authors of Mavericks at Work and founders of Fast Company magazine, talk about innovation and open source.

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SmallBizPod #35 - 4 December 2006

SmallBizPod #35 - 4 December 2006

Interviews from Inspire 2006 on recruiting and motivating staff with John Timpson of Timpsons, Mark Adlestone of Beaverbrooks and Claire Owen of StopGap.

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