Online Green Business Traffic Outpaces Conventional Retail during Recession
The WeBuyItGreen Eco Library, an information resource for green consumers and businesses, has published a new analysis of online retail traffic growth. Recent market research on consumer preference has indicated that consumer spending on green products may have leveled off during the recession because shoppers have become more cost-conscious. However, the WeBuyItGreen report suggests that this recessionary leveling effect upon green consumption may be milder in specific areas of online retail.
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Ecominds gives £1.25m boost to national eco-projects
Five environmental organisations have been awarded a maximum £250,000 each to deliver flagship projects as part of a national wellbeing and environmental campaign (1). Eco-initiatives given the green light include an organic farm offering therapy to disadvantaged young people and an eco-burial service which gives people the chance to have an environmentally friendly send off. The organisations fought off tough competition to receive the money from mental health charity Mind’s oversubscribed grant scheme Ecominds, funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
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Tags: btcv, Business, companies, eco, ecominds, environment, finance, green, projects
Marketplace for those seeking green jobs
The economic climate is not particuarly helping anybody at the moment and new jobs seem very thin on the ground, however a new service from Green Foot Technologies may help those trying to find gainful employment in the green sector.
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Tags: agency, eco, environment, foot, green, greenfootjobs, jobs, web
Network your earth friendly business
Nexyoo.com is launching a new website that will provide consumers with the ability to make each and every hard-earned dollar count. By networking earth-friendly businesses worldwide consumers can come to one place to fulfill their product and service needs and in turn empower the green merchants who have chosen to be a part of the solution. These merchants have chosen to step up and do their part by saying no to corporate greed and cheap mass-produced, plastic products and saying yes to helping clean up the earth and producing long-lasting, naturally derived products and honest services. Nexyoo firmly believes that these businesses should be recognized and rewarded for their hard work and perseverance in the face of corporate monopolies and over-consumption of natural resources.
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Tags: Business, earth, eco, environment, friendly, green, jobs, networking, nexyoo, partnership, relatinship
Is it too late to save Englands last wind turbine plants
Unite the union is urging the government to work with management at Vestas to save England’s only wind turbine manufacturing plants at the Isle of Wight and Southampton which are to close on Friday 24 July, with the loss of 625 jobs and the transfer of production to China and the US.
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Tags: carbon, close, Energy, jobs, plant, turbine, uk, vestas, wind
Touch of green win student business award
An innovative student tree planting company ‘Touch of green’ from Estonia has won a European competition for the best student company of 2009. 32 countries held individual competitions to find their best student company’s and then these were presented at the final which was held on Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Tags: best, Business, carbon, co2, emissions, ja-ye, offset, planting, rotterdam, students, touch of green, tree
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