The City of Manchester stadium is about to become the very first in the world with its own green power supply. Permission has been granted for Manchester City Football Club to erect a 120m high wind turbine, to power both the Sportcity stadium and surrounding homes. The turbine, which has been designed by celebrated architect [...]
The latest move in the competition for the “green” pound sees Sainsbury’s supermarket replacing its current plastic carrier bags with new bags made up of 33% recycled plastic, 10% chalk and 57% new plastic. The new orange bags will be phased in starting next month and will save 6,500 tons of plastic every year. The [...]
Airline boss he may be, but Richard Branson is also my top eco-hero businessman/entrepreneur/celebrity for his good intentions this month. You may say that good intentions don’t save the world, but I’ll argue that this man has put his money where his mouth is. After the news last week of Richard committing £1.6bn to help [...]
