Posted on February 8, 2010 by Nick
When did being green suddenly start being cool? Correct me if I’m wrong, but for most of my life, green sympathisers were beardy sandals-and-socks types who rode tandem bikes through hedges and sang ‘Kum Bay Yah’ a lot. And then something changed. Anya Hindmarch brought out her ‘I am not a plastic bag’ carrier bag [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2008 by Nick
I’ve been in the internet business for over a decade now, and I’m pretty jaded. It takes a lot to impress me. This week, a new launch caught my eye which has the power to be truly disruptive: changing the status quo in a useful, daily kind of way. It’s called ViaPost, and it promises [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2008 by Nick
Tenon, the entrepreneur’s forum, has recently published a survey, claiming that for most respondents it just doesn’t pay for small businesses to become more environmentally friendly. Over half of those questioned had made no progress in implementing green measures and had no intention of doing so. This made me wonder, first of all, how green [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2008 by Nick
Well, given the unstable state of the economy, we should have expected a pretty bland budget, and that’s what we got. Darling was barracked the moment he got to his feet, using the phrase “Stability now, and in the future” to much laughter. But in my previous post I lamented this administration’s endless tinkering, and [...]
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