Green Business

If you want to go green then understand the business argument for adopting environmentally sustainable and socially responsible principles. You’ll find out how to change your business culture and establish long-term environmental and business goals.

Plus, tips, dos, don’ts and taboos, highlights on key subjects, ‘SOS’ hints on what to do in a particular situation and real-life case studies explain how to communicate your green strategy to staff and sell your message to customers. Read it cover to cover, or dip in and out of topics for quick reference.

Handy tips in a pocket-sized format – take it wherever your business takes you.

Ban the Plastic Bag

 Every year 17 billion carrier bags are given away free in the UK – that means an average of 300 carrier bags for every man, woman and child in Britain. Plastics do not biodegrade. Scientists now estimate that plastic lasts for at least 1000 years. Every carrier bag that has ever been produced is still on the planet, in landfill, hedgerows, or floating in the sea. Plastic bag litter is lethal, killing over 100,000 seabirds, dolphins, seals, whales and turtles every year. In May 2007, Modbury in South Devon became Britain’s first plastic bag free town. This book takes the Modbury story and uses it as a call to action, entreating every village, town and city in the country to follow Modbury’s example and Ban The Plastic Bag.

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Red Pepper Price: R60.00 (incl.)

Waste: The True Cost of What the Global Food Industry Throws Away

With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem – or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food – enough to feed all the world’s hungry three times over. Meanwhile, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them to market. Forests are destroyed and global warming accelerated growing food that will never be eaten. But there are surprisingly painless remedies to what has become one of the world’s most pressing environmental and social problems. Introducing us to a motley cast of foraging pigs, potato farmers, freegans and food industry directors, and travelling from Yorkshire to China, from Pakistan to Japan, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring ways of making the most of what we have. Combining front-line investigation with the analytical skills demonstrated in his acclaimed history, The Bloodless Revolution , Stuart’s new work is essential reading for anyone keen to understand how our waste has created a global food crisis – and how we can fix it.
Book Details

Red Pepper Price: R170.00 (incl.)