Everything in churches and governments move extremely slow and for this reason I am not surprised neither have jumped on the Go Green bandwagon quickly. Most are still as wasteful as ever and have no plans on changing. Then again, every once in a while there seems to be a glimmer of hope and there [...]
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Tips for Going Green
Environment, GreenWant to go greener this year, but not sure where you and your family should start? It doesn’t have to be a whiplash set of changes. You and your children can always start with some small habits or products to change. Here’s a few tips on how to go green. You may already do a [...]
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Create a Sustainable Business Strategy by Erecting Competitive Barriers
Environment, Society, UncategorizedIn business, it is critical to build a sustainable competitive advantage. Many new businesses develop competitive advantages that aren’t sustainable. This limits their future growth, unless they are able to continuously out-innovate the competition. To create a sustainable business strategy, you must erect barriers for the competitors. These range from barriers to entry (for an [...]
Tags: business strategies, business strategy, market analysis, marketing strategy
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Improving Sustainable Shoe Manufacturing Processes
EnvironmentHigh street fashion has become more and more competitive in recent years especially in the UK with brands such as Primark and H&M battling it out for the women’s ‘fast fashion’ crown. Stores like these are nuder pressure to be at the forefront of fashion in order to survive and quite amazingly you can see [...]
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The Hidden Cost of Clean Water
EnvironmentAlthough having access to free flowing drinking water is a wonderful thing, many people are afraid of the dangerous chemicals that lurk in regular tap water. Studies have shown that tap water contains chemicals, prescription medication, and other compounds that can cause health damage. Because of this, many people have turned to an under sink [...]
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How Food Industry Affects Our Environment & Health
Environment, Green, Politics, SocietyRecently I’ve been thinking how farm bill is contributing to the obesity problem in America. Well, since then I have been also thinking—can 127 million people in the US being overweight be chalked up entirely to subsidies in the farm bill? In the quest for an answer, I decided to look locally. A recent study [...]
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Live Fences For African Vegetable Gardening
Conservation, Environment, GreenThe key goal of the WSSD was to promote the advancement of Sustainable development around the world. One area of importance is to encourage productive vegetable gardening in African farming environments. A major productivity reducer in African vegetable gardens is grazing on the harvest by roaming livestock. Unfortunately the building of fences to protect said [...]
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Was The WSSD A Lot Of Hot Air?
EnvironmentThe World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), also known as the Earth Summit took place in 2002. I am not a supporter of the Green Party and my knowledge of this event was non-existent until we received an order recently from a customer for several personalised christening gifts for a baby to be named Gaia. [...]
