Great news for Ethical Businesses – there’s £5000 up for grab!
The “Pledging For Change Ethical Business Advantage Award 2009” is a new competition to win £5,000 worth of business image development from the brand image experts, Creatively Minded Design.
Pledging For Change is an ethical community interest company promoting networking in the spirit of harmony with the planet and together with sponsors The SME Brand News, Creatively Minded design, Passion for the Planet and YouCanOnline they wan…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 27, 2009 at 10:30am —
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Below is the latest Passion for the Planet blog from our news partner FSN.
BIG NEWS NAME GETTING SMALLER
Kate Moody, FSN Washington DC Bureau
It's another casualty for the world of journalism - the
Washington Post has announced it will close its remaining US bureaus (in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles). The six correspondents who work there have been offered positions in the Wa…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 26, 2009 at 10:34am —
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Below is Passion for the Planet's new guest blog from Anthony Melbourne, Abbey Support - read more here.
Avoiding Staff Misuse and Spam
Spam or unsolicited emails is the biggest waste of business time today.
As defences have improved so has the cunning of the “Spammers”. Last year they embedded all messages inside pictures to avoid detection, but the latest spam tools read the text inside pictures.
So first and foremost gua…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 25, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Below is Passion for the Planet's new blog from Helen Chapman.
Millions of people in the UK spend millions of pounds on bottled water every year. And we’re being sold a scam… so let’s just clear something up;
By opting for tap water over bottles you can help the ENVIRONMENT, YOUR POCKET and YOUR HEALTH!
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 24, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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Below is Passion for the Planet's new blog from Kenny Stevens, programmer director. Read more here.
Getting radio airplay is easier than you might think. This blog from
Schofield and Company you how to do it, and I agree with every word. It’s aimed specifically at online radio stations, but the same applies to…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 20, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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Below is the latest passion for the planet blog from our news partner FSN.
BATTLE FOR EUROPE'S BRIGHTEST BRAINS
Nina-Maria Potts, FSN Brussels Bureau
Europe's top innovators, researchers and scientists still see the US as the best place to work, and tough economic times can only trigger more defections across the Atlantic.
The European Commission is again sounding the alarm, amid fears that shrinking investment in res…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 19, 2009 at 10:22am —
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Below is Passion for the Planet's new guest blog from Sarah Alexander, a performance coach and an expert in helping clients access their intuition - read more here.
How Your Intuition can help you achieve what you want.
Do you want to move house, change careers or improve your love life?
If so, learn how to use your intuition and let it guide you in all that you do. Your intuition works in parallel to the Reticular Activatin…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 18, 2009 at 10:59am —
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And when it’s our relationship with the world we live in it hurts more than just us.
Everything we do affects our world. Smile, don’t smile. Praise, criticise. Vote, stay at home. Buy fair trade, buy the cheapest. Think profit, think it through.
Personal or planet-wide, decisions and actions have consequences.
For example… too many sheep means higher insurance premiums, buying a fur coat costs you more than the price on the ticket, and driving your car increases the cost of bread.
Deforestat…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 17, 2009 at 10:53am —
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This week Kate Woods, explains what super foods are, and why they're good for us in
PASSION for the PLANET’s Audio Blog. Listen and read more of PASSION for the PLANET's Blog here. Continue
Added by Chantal Cooke on November 16, 2009 at 10:49am —
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Below is Passion for the Planet's new blog from Helen Chapman. Read more here.
So we’ve all heard the expression ‘happiness starts at home’. However, for a lot of people most of their waking lives are actually spent outside the home and in the office. So why then, don’t we make as much effort to improve our lives, and environmental efforts at work?
I know many people who spend hours cooking delicious organic dishes for dinner, are o…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 13, 2009 at 12:56pm —
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Below is Passion for the Planet's new guest blog from Alex Smith, founder and MD of Alara Wholefoods – one of the UK’s biggest organic muesli manufacturers who are based in the heart of the capital at King’s Cross - read more here.
I love gardening, but more than that I love to grow food, and in this day and age when we spend so much money on food in the UK and yet there are people starving across the world I believe that we must mov…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 11, 2009 at 10:30am —
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Below is Passion for the Planet's new blog from Kenny Stevens, programmer director. Read more here.
Monday was a big day. The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On 9th November 1989 I was in Cologne, at the radio HQ of BFBS, prepping the next day’s breakfast show. Then the world changed. Instead of picking three hours of music and writing some gags before heading for the bar, I found myself producing my friend Alton And…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 10, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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Did Radovan Karadzic have a deal with the Americans? I hope not. I’ve seen, first hand, the devastation of war in the former Yugoslavia.
I remember standing in what had once been a thriving ski resort in the mountains of Bosnia. Only a few years before this area had been full of tourists. Now the hotel was a burnt wreck, the ground at my feet littered with spent shells from AK47s, and looming lonely in the debris was a memorial to the men who had fought and died here just a few short years ago.…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 6, 2009 at 10:23am —
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Below is the latest passion for the planet blog from our news partner FSN.
New York non-profit distributes leftover Yankee Stadium food.
Feature Story News New York Bureau Chief Nathan King has filed a
video about the work of founder of 'Rock and Wrap It Up' who gives left over food from Yankee baseball games to people in need.
British Space Agency tests 'crackpot' ant…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 5, 2009 at 11:00am —
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Below is Passion for the Planet's new guest blog from Annie Lawler, Managing Director of Breathing Space Therapies & Breathing Space for Business - read more here.
Sometimes we don't want to admit to feeling overwhelmed, we feel we
should be able to cope with everything life throws at…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 4, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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Environmentally friendly and rich in biodiversity are not phrases you often hear associated with golf course.
However they could be ideal places to provide sanctuaries for threatened birds and other wildlife.
In the past golf courses have been criticised by green groups for excessive water, pesticide and fertiliser use but a new joint publication, Birds and Golf Courses: A Guide to Habitat Management, marks a change in attitude by the industry.
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 3, 2009 at 10:00am —
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How many times have you stood in a shop staring at a wall of wine bottles hoping for some inspiration, determined not to give in to the easy option of going for a Hardys, Gallo or Jacobs Creek? Do you know what you like when you taste it, but don't know what to look for to give you that taste? Then you need some top tips from wine expert Elly Munro.
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Added by Chantal Cooke on November 2, 2009 at 4:37pm —
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Read more of Passion for the Planet's Blog here.
I am standing in a cellar surrounded by over 20,000 bottles of carefully chosen wine.
I have a bottle of Moet et Chandon Imperial in my left hand and a large knife in my right hand.
Slowly I run the blade up and down the neck of the bottle listening to the sound of metal against glass.
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Added by Chantal Cooke on October 30, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Below is Passion for the Planet's new guest blog from Dave Hampton, the Carbon Coach. Visit the Passion for the Planet Blog to read more!
Don't call them Climate Deniers.
They’re really 'Pushers' of a Drug called 'Doubt'.
I had a nightmare about deniers. Truth deniers, and how honest people can get drawn to them.
My field of speciality is a big muddy field: humankind’s collective denial (by their actions) that there's any r…
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Added by Chantal Cooke on October 28, 2009 at 11:00am —
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Is it possible to build something that is both highly functional & breathtakingly beautiful?
Is it possible to turn an incinerator into a work of art?
Is it possible to make the disposal of a city's waste a must see stop on the tourist trail?
The answer to all of these is YES.
And it’s been done – in Vienna.
The incinerator at Spittelau was designed by…
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