Footprint Forum

  • Full Report – Footprint Forum: Sustainability Reporting

    HAVE YOU ever been midway through the company’s annual sustainability report and thought: who on earth is going to read this? Well, perhaps you should. “I think we need to think harder about who our audiences are, and who we…

  • Global campaign to cut “foodprint”

    RESTAURANTS, PUBS and hotels are being encouraged to limit menu choices and introduce flexible portioning as part of a new global campaign to cut food waste.                           Those…

  • Europe’s new resource efficiency manifesto

    THE EUROPEAN Commission has published its vision of what a resource efficient Europe will look like: more environmental reporting and fewer resource-intensive products.     In a world with growing pressures on resources and the environment, the Commission called for…

  • Footprint Annual Review: Cheap milk, pricey gas and unethical coffee

    THE TOP stories of 2012, from Starbucks’ tax travails to rising energy bills and the “greenest Olympics ever”.   January/February   With the mince pies sitting heavily around the waistline and the influence of festive parties still coursing through the veins,…

  • Nestlé’s palm oil turnaround

    NESTLE HAS come a long way since that viral in 2010 – the one with the bored office worker who bites off a finger of a Kit Kat that turns out to be a bloody orang-utan finger. Campaigners at Greenpeace…

  • Brave new world of reporting

    THE SUSTAINABILITY report is dead. Long live the sustainability factsheet, or interactive website or anything but a dull 40-page document that very few people will read.                     Sustainability reporting has come…

  • Footprint Forum: Sustainability Reporting

    ON WEDNESDAY grandees of the foodservice industry gathered for the last Footprint Forum of 2012 at the Butchers Hall, sponsored by CH&Co, for a frank and open discussion about Sustainability Reporting in our sector.           Tom…

  • Whitbread among best for carbon reporting

    WHEN IT COMES to carbon reporting, it’s the supermarkets that remain the top students. Hospitality businesses, meanwhile, still have a lot to do.   That’s according to new research published today by Carbon Clear. The carbon management company has analysed…

  • Getting change on the table…fast

    PERSUADING PEOPLE to eat sustainably could take time that we don’t have. The government’s Green Food Project is tackling the big question of what to do right now.   What will our food industry look like in 2050? It’s a…

  • GM within a UK foodservice context

    To find balanced opinion on GMO is very difficult. It strikes us that it’s incredibally hard to find authoritative, yet fair, opinion within a UK foodservice context. This video makes a start. Watch this space!   Register here to attend…