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What Price on the Future?
There is also good evidence to show that environmental initiatives are producing business efficiencies that are enabling firms to gain a competitive edge and, subsequently, creating greater value for shareholders. Read More
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Meat of the Matter
With increasing demand for protein from those parts of the world where a vegetable-based diet has been the historical norm, questions are being raised as to the environmental impact of the burgeoning livestock industry. You name it, whether we… Read More
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Why the Status Quo is Unsustainable
Businesses are keen to find a solution to a more sustainable industry without actually understanding why the status quo is ultimately unsustainable. What is sustainability? What does this overused word, synonymous with all environmental issues, actually mean? The most… Read More
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Parallel Lines: Could there be a relationship between Obesity and Food Waste?
I hope Im not overstepping my mandate here, but I cannot help but feel that the strong correlation between obesity and food waste just has to be faced. According to the World… Read More
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Caring for the environment can mean very different things to different people.
At one of the recent, gloriously over the top, industry awards ceremonies, I was confronted by a somewhat inebriated man, who turned out to be a journalist on a recognised trade magazine. Amongst other prejudices, he asked what I possibly… Read More
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A Major Vision
A global food crisis could mean a future in which ‘local’ is focal, says Nick Fenwicke-Clennell “Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers… Read More
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Can restaurants support UK sustainability efforts?
Sustainability is all about sourcing locally. Sourcing good quality local produce is hard work as you have to go out and find it – it doesn’t always come to you. It is a long process, but one which over the… Read More
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Man – The Mystery Animal
James Samson, UK Brand Manager of Champagne Louis Roederer, dips into the ancient past and demonstrates that thoughts about sustainability are not exclusively contemporary. Man is at heart a dreamer. However close to the gods he may sit in… Read More
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So just what should we believe?
The sustainability debate is full of contradictions, says Nick Fenwicke-Clennell It is fact, emphatically supported by raw logic, that our planet’s natural resources are running out. What raises the occasional eyebrow are the increasing contradictions in, not just the supporting… Read More