Archive for November, 2007

Here’s a tip for any eco-friendly health conscious teachers out there.

Encourage your students to have a healthy organic fruit snack rather than some packaging heavy junk food snack once a week. While their snacking, informally teach them about something environment or health related — tell them a little story or fact about the huge amount of packaging that goes into junk food products and how that packaging has to go somewhere after they throw it away, despite it being out of sight — there are plenty of surprising facts that’ll make your students go Wow.

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The Consortium has been lucky enough to secure its electricity from 100% renewable sources (Green Energy). Unfortunately, there is a shortage of renewable capacity in the UK at the moment. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we might encourage producers to bring more capacity on line?

Here at The Consortium we reduced our electricity usage from 2006 to 2007 by 10%, while our business output remained on the increase. How did we do this? (more…)