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Posts Tagged ‘energy’

Small Business Letter From America - the wind is picking up

After years of relatively slow development, wind power seems to be really picking up in the US.
In western Oklahoma, we’ve built up from one tentative test project to an all out boom in development. A recent public meeting in Enid, Oklahoma, drew more people than they had room for. Hundreds of landowners turned out to [...]

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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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Is IT burning your energy budget?

In another life, I spend a lot of time looking at IT issues in large enterprises. This is a world of multi-million pound IT budgets and horrendous electricity bills. Some companies genuinely fear electricity shortages in the coming years, the consequences of which would be horrendous for companies large and small.
Imagine if you had no [...]

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The future of energy?

A leap sideways into a different technology world this week. But it’s a world that affects us all: energy. Where do we get it from and what is the environmental cost?
It doesn’t matter whether you believe that humans are causing climate change, it just makes sense to minimise the damage to our environment simply because [...]

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SmallBizPod #43 - Thursday 29 March 2007

SmallBizPod #43 - Thursday 29 March 2007

Alex Vieux, publisher of Red Herring, talks about the European technology/web sector and the state of VC funding for startups. [Photo: b_d_solis]

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SmallBizPod #41 - Monday 5 March 2007

SmallBizPod #41 - Monday 5 March 2007

Emma Jones, founder of homeworking portal Enterprise Nation, talks about the home based business trend and kitchen table entrepreneurs.

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SmallBizPod #68 - Rachel Elnaugh Interview

SmallBizPod #68 - Rachel Elnaugh Interview

A podcast interview with celebrity entrepreneur, Rachel Elnaugh, on business failure and success, attraction, the entrepreneurial sex-drive, women in business and the well-being sector.

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SmallBizPod #72 - Michael Gerber podcast - dreaming big with the E-Myth author

SmallBizPod #72 - Michael Gerber podcast - dreaming big with the E-Myth author

A podcast interview with Michael Gerber, author of the E-Myth series of books, on dreaming big, awakening the entrepreneur within, business systems and imagination.

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