Social Supermarket’s grand branding idea for social impact
THE UK's largest marketplace for social impact products has announced the launch of a Branded Merchandise offering for corporates.
The B Corp-certified organisation’s business model...
Winnie Byanyima: From the Bush to the Global Stage
Oxfam International’s dynamic director Winnie Byanyima possesses a most extraordinary CV. Her career includes working as Uganda’s first female aeronautical engineer, living in the...
Mobile use ‘seed to irreversible climate change’
What links the world’s first mobile phone call, made 50 years ago, to climate change? JOHN MACK answers that one…
WHEN Martin Cooper made the...
Some SME founders are putting everything on the line
AS THE deadline for the inquiry into SME finance nears, the founders of UK start-ups are facing increasing demands to personally guarantee business loans.
Applications...
High-profile, high-importance, high hopes at InterEcoForum conference
Story by HAL WILLIAMS
Photographs by HEATHER LEAH SMITH
THE InterEcoForum´s eighth event held recently on Spain’s Costa del Sol — addressing the theme of Water...
Jan Pronk: It Takes More than Good Intentions
The government of Sudan declared Jan Pronk persona non grata in October 2006, summoning the UN special envoy to pack his bags and leave...
DIY projects can go wrong – as Wesfarmers finds out in...
Home and hardware chain Homebase is sold for the princely sum of £1 – with strings attached…
By HAL WILLIAMS
THE UK DIY chain Homebase has...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Waiting for the Age of Reason
Her life has been an extraordinary journey across varied political, cultural, and geographical landscapes. She is beautiful, intelligent, courageous, and quite outspoken.
Author, campaigner, politician,...
Get on the bus! UK drive for carbon reduction starts up
BUSINESSES across the UK will be offered carbon-reduction workshops and practical net-zero advice until the end of COP26 in November.
Workshops will be provided by...
Eighth InterEcoForum held in Spain with full UN backing
THE InterEcoForum's eighth annual event addressing the theme of Water For Sustainable Development, supported by the United Nations and its agencies, was held recently...
