Business sustainability, biomass heating systems, fracking, water sustainability, prosumers, community energy and ethical finance were some of the themes that proved to be our most popular GreenWise blogs of 2014.
Below are our top 10 green business blogs of 2014:
1. Green SMEs: five key drivers that will make you wish you had a sustainability policy
Demonstrating sustainability is as worthwhile as an organisation’s primary operations is critical to finding better ways of doing business – not just ensuring that UK emissions targets are met. So here are five key business drivers that have benefited organisations that have immersed their operations and supply chains in sustainability.
2. Will you pass the Tesco test? Five steps to using sustainability to win business
Whether you want to work with a giant like Tesco, or simply differentiate your business from the rest, you need to know how to use sustainability to ensure you win business. Here are five steps to using sustainability to win business.
3. Why can’t I find a decent plumber for my biomass-powered heating system?
How do you find a good biomass heating plumber? The short answer is with enormous difficulty.
4. Fracking: are those that oppose shale drilling irrational?
Earlier this year, David Cameron announced he was “going all out for shale” and denounced some of those opposing fracking as “irrational”. But a small but growing minority of business leaders are warning of the risk of “going all out” for fracking.
5. The four horsemen of the global apocalypse: water, climate change, food and extreme weather
Water, climate change, food and extreme weather events are all environmental constraints or limits and all make up no less than four of the top 10 global risks of highest concern for 2014, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Risks Report – we ignore them at our peril.
6. Water sustainability: five takeaways from World Water Week
Water stress is already becoming a challenge for many businesses in their operations and supply chains. Last week, World Water Week, the annual forum for sharing insights and case studies on water sustainability, was held in Stockholm. Here are my five takeaways for business.
7. Could gamification and humanisation provide the answers to increasing recycling rates in the home?
Gamification and humanisation look to be at the heart of future approaches to recycling, if winners of an online innovation platform competition aiming to improve the way people deal with domestic waste is anything to go by.
8. Is your business ready for prosumers?
Jeremy Rifkin’s new book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society, makes a convincing case for an emerging alternative to conventional capitalism – termed “collaborative consumption” . So what does this new type of consumerism mean for your business?
9. Harnessing the power of ‘community’ to tackle the big sustainability challenges
Virtual communities are proving invaluable for tapping into to help tackle the big environmental and social challenges that we face now and in the future. But why do ordinary people get involved and what motivates them?
10. Money is social: why mainstream finance has got it wrong about ‘us’
This year, Good Money Week, asked us to consider not just what it means to be good with money, but what it means to do good with money.