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Loans that change lives
Kiva puts you in touch with entrepreneurs in developing countries so you can empower them in their bid to set up businesses and lift them and their communities out of poverty. See the positive impact and take a look at some of the projects on http://www.kiva.org/
Green labelling made simple
Lost in the jargon? Try a "Shopper’s Guide to Green Labels" – a fold–out credit card-sized leaflet that explains the meaning of the green labels and logos commonly found on all sorts of products: click for more at www.defra.gov.uk/Environment/consumerprod/shopguide/
Green business over here and over there
For some of the latest thinking on sustainability for business in the U.S.A., click http://www.greenbiz.com/ – the weekly newsletter is worth a look, with some interesting bites to make you think.
Similarly over here, try http://www.treehugger.com/ – useful and engagingly edited.
Bite–size Stern
The much referred to Stern Report is really worth a read as it brings together some great thinking around the consequences of inaction. Click and download the digestible executive summary on:
http://www.hm-
treasury.gov.uk/media/4/3/Executive_Summary.pdf
The lifecycle of stuff
Product lifecycles explained in this film as never before:
http://www.storyofstuff.com
Want more? There’s further film and video entertainment at greentv. Packed with interesting reports & interviews, it’s a great addition to myspace. Click, sit back and watch….
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm
?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID=206134959
If radio is more your thing, try this Radio 4 recent documentary:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/costingtheearth.shtml
The Brand Legacy Commitment
Our Commitment
From the outset, we have set ourselves standards to run the type of sustainable business we can be proud of. Our principles include:
Workplace:
We believe wholeheartedly in creating an open and inspiring workplace where life–work balance is important as a measure of success and people are supported and trained.
Community:
We commit to a percentage of our time being used for pro-bono work to help local and national NGOs.
Environment:
We commit to running a carbon–neutral organization. We minimise our carbon footprint across a range of areas, and offset where carbon is unavoidable using the Climate Care scheme.
- Travel: we commit to using public transport wherever possible, and only flying where there is no viable alternative. We offset all airline travel via approved schemes and expect our clients to do the same.
- Energy. We reduce energy consumption wherever possible and use renewable energy suppliers.
- Office supplies. We set ourselves reduction targets, recycle and re–use wherever possible and commit to using only sustainably sourced paper and other supplies.
Green Feast – exploring sustainable food
If you are intrigued to find out more about the complex meanings of sustainable food, why not attend the Green Feast conference on 12th March at the Living Rainforest, one of our sustainability partners, near Newbury. Lucy will be speaking at this event.
http://www.livingrainforest.org/charity/spring-conferences
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