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Free energy saving workshops

In November the Carbon Trust is running a series of free Practical Carbon Footprinting Workshops in England. These workshops are half day and will explore: what is a carbon footprint? How to measure an organisation's carbon footprint and how to reduce an organisation's footprint. For more information and to register for one of these events please www.carbontrust.co.uk/events
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We honour the great and the good in business

Our year long campaign culminates in the announcement of the Good Director honours

The perfect match

Fantasy football comes to life for directors in the European Corporate Cup

The great and the good

What makes a good director depends on how you define "good". To some, it could be having the cost-cutting ruthlessness needed to save a firm from failing; to others, it's a paternal approach to employees that counts

Charles Handy on generosity

To ensure its future, capitalism needs to embrace sympathy alongside self-interest, says Charles Handy

John Madejski

He's a serial entrepreneur who has made as big a mark on the community as he has on business. David Woodward explores one man's desire to leave a legacy of substance

Nigel Kershaw

The Chairman of the Big Issue and chief executive of Big Issue Invest talks to Clare Lynch

Living on fresh air

Climate change has spawned a booming market in emissions trading, with the UK quickly becoming its hub. It has also created a new breed of business leader, the environmental capitalist

Round table

In April, a group of outspoken advocates of enterprise joined Director to discuss reputation and leadership. Here we feature the highlights

Penny Newman, CEO, Cafédirect

Newman has taken the ethical coffee firm from strength to strength—by developing a strong commercial strategy to sit alongside its social aims

Exclusive Director survey results

Directors feel undervalued by the public. But are they doing anything about it? We reveal the results of Director's reader survey

For good business sense

FTSE4Good's Will Oulton sets out the investment case for sustainability

Who takes the lead?

UK students believe the government is responsible for driving environmental change followed by individuals and then business

Stitched up

Clothing retailers are placing bigger orders with factories in developing countries yet it is doing little to improve the lives of some of the world's poorest people

David Blood

He's joined forces with ex-American vice-president and environmental campaigner Al Gore to form Generation but can he combine big returns with taking sustainability to the masses?

The morality movement

Directors who live in a moral vacuum will lose out to a new breed of "authentic " leader, who places values and quality of life above making a quick buck, says Cary Cooper

The good director

To celebrate Director's 60th birthday, we launch the Good Director campaign with a list of leaders who give business a good name
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