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Food for thought

Is biofuel a sustainable substitute for oil, and are investors ready for it?

The burning issue

Our panel of directors discusses how legislation to tackle climate change affects all businesses and how they are responding

Catching the wave

The UK's marine energy start-ups are among the most innovative and enterprising companies in the world. But can they grow fast enough to help make this country a world leader in renewable energy?

Jonathon Porritt on sustainability

After 60 years of wanton environmental destruction we are on the edge of a climate catastrophe—but Jonathon Porritt is optimistic that we'll put it right

Inventor's eco-start-up success

Rising star Peter Martin, the ex-ad agency director, wins award at the International Inventors Exhibition in Geneva for his novel uses of rubbish

The EC's latest eco-drive

A new campaign aims to get businesses and individuals to change their habits out of choice rather than coercion

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

Green and prosperous land?

The worldwide investment community is now a vociferous participant in the climate-change debate—not least because it is predicted that this is where big profits will come from in the future

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

Who should take the lead on sustainability?

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

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?

Green Screen Technology

Videoconferencing allows companies to reduce their carbon emissions, says David Woodward

Marketers turn up the heat

John Elkington convinces marketers about sustainability

Small firms must see the green light

Small businesses need to examine their environmental impact and set out actions to deal with it, says Joanna Peios
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