Songs to Inspire Your Hustle
Small business is hard – the isolation, the rejection and the weight of the risk that is on your shoulders to bear. But you’re not alone, even if you are literally alone.
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The Gold Mine of Ideas that Marketers are Ignoring
Great marketing campaigns show that you acknowledge and build on what your community is saying. Are you even listening?
Why Foodies Must Also be Environmentalists
Foodies and environmentalists don’t always get along. Environmentalists make compromises daily for sustainability. Foodies are known for being single-minded and ruthless in their search for the perfect meal. But I argue: If you love food, you must appreciate and respect the environment in which it was grown. And that means you have to make green…
The Hidden Cost of Cheap Clothing
As I write this, I am wearing another woman’s pants. I’m wearing a second woman’s shirt. This isn’t some Fergus Brown-style fantasy but an effort to reduce my waste footprint while still trying to look stylish. Some of you probably find it a bit creepy to consider wearing someone else’s clothes. As my germaphobic workmate…
Three ‘Green’ Alternatives that Aren’t So Simple – and Three that Are!
You’re planning a holiday and you’re excited. You have plotted your route around festivals and natural wonders you want to see and now, it’s time to book your flights. At the bottom of the web form, the airliner asks if you’d like to offset the carbon created by your trip. It costs you $3.25. “Sure,”…
A Mixtape for Planet Earth
Still on a high at the end of a successful green film festival and pumped by the news that the US Government is taking real action on climate change, I have made a mixtape for the Earth of my favorite environmental tunes. These are songs that turned me into an environmentalist. I hope you love…