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The Importance of Winding Down and How a Dog Can Help
Photo by Ed Yourdon Why I’m a Stressed-Out Businessman I have a lot of stress in my life at the moment. We’re going through a prolonged period of change at work, which means we need to adjust the way people are managed, make some difficult decisions about who stays in the organisation and who should [...]
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Lesser Known Uses for Bamboo
One common perception about bamboo is that it is only useful for bamboo blinds and mats or for stakes for the garden. This is a mistaken perception because bamboo products can be used in a surprising number of ways. The more ways we can find to use bamboo the better it is for the environment. [...]
Tags: bamboo charcoal, bamboo vinegar, strand woven bamboo flooring, sustainability
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Making the Home a Green Place and The Triple Bottom Line
Under traditional methods of accounting it was not always cost effective to go green. Environmentally friendly technology and architecture is often more expensive than older technology and architecture. In 1981 Freer Spreckly published ‘Social Audit – A Management Tool for Co-operative Working’. In it he introduced the notion of the Triple Bottom Line. This was [...]
Tags: green interior design, pollution, programmable thermostats, resource depletion, triple bottom line, VOCs, water conservation
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Eating Right to Avoid Osteoporosis
When it comes to bone health, what foods spring to mind? If you’re thinking of milk or dairy then you’re not alone. This is what we’re taught in school from a young age. Indeed many countries actually have a milk program which instills the knowledge that if we want strong teeth and bones, then we [...]
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