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Dame Ellen (among others) still has some studying to do!

The news this week has been full of SustainabilityLive!, or at least the green press has and the mainstream will follow once the MP expenses scandal no longer sells copy. Some good came out of it but, regrettably, a lot of outdated and misinformed truisms were paraded for the sake of making a splash.
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Is Lewes the new model?

It appears that that there is a growing desire for an economic model (or at least on a very small scale) that challenges the development of the global economic one that many feel has brought to us to the place we are at today.

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Natural Capitalism: creating the next industrial revolution

I’m not a great fan of most business books. It’s always struck me that if the ideas expounded therein are so blindingly brilliant, why is the authors writing about it instead of developing a great business, or ‘walking the talk’?
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Energy efficiency is a no brainer

The CBI’s director of business environment, Neil Bentley, was recently heard to say that getting to a thriving low-carbon economy would be a long, hard slog but was necessary and that the right Government policy, IT systems and training for the next generation of workers will be key ingredients.
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