Eco-friendly business opportunity for stay-at-home-parents

Forget Tupperware parties, stay-at-home-mothers are getting involved in selling a product that saves fuel and lowers vehicle emissions as a new home-based business. Tania-Maria Xavier is a stay-at-home-mom and one of the area managers at EcoEnergizer™‘s business distributorship team in the US. She is offering a new business opportunity to other parents.

Questioning the UK’s environmental future

Leading scientists have come together to draw up a list of 100 leading questions facing the UK’s environmental future. The Guardian whittles these down to just eleven to cover the key issues for us. How long does the seabed take to recover from dredging, wind farm construction and oil and gas extraction? How does the …

How green is your supermarket?

I read with interest an article at the Independent Online about how supermarkets are now vying for the green-pound, and how Asda, for the first time, is selling local kale in Cornwall and Devon without it having made the 280-mile round trip to their distribution depot in Bristol first. It seems that the race is …

Mackie’s Make Wind-powered Ice Cream

Mackie’s of Scotland make ice cream with fresh milk, cream and renewable energy. They have installed a single Vestas V52 wind turbine and aim to become Britain’s greenest company by making more energy than they consume. In the past year, the wind turbine has provided 65% of the electricity requirements for Mackie’s, and they have …