Environment

Event hears from company that shares its profits with customers

Posted on 28/03/2013 by Peter Davison

The CEO of a company that refunds its customers if it makes too much money addressed around 100 like-minded business owners in Birmingham last week. Ben Reid, chief executive of The Midcounties Co-operative, was the keynote speaker at a networking … Continue reading →

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Co-operative enterprises raise a glass to sustainable food production

Posted on 30/10/2012 by Peter Davison

Co-operative enterprises raised a glass to sustainable food production at a seminar in Birmingham. Cider pressed at a co-operatively-run orchard in Worcester was the toast of the seminar, where ethical coffee production was also celebrated. And the seminar heard how … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Society, Co-operative, Environment, Fairtrade, Food, Retail | Tagged Birmingham, Co-operative, Co-operative Retail Trading Group, Community First, food sourcing, Revolver Coffee, West Midlands, Worcestershire Roots Co-operative | Comments Off

Ethical businesses provide food for thought

Posted on 20/09/2012 by Peter Davison

Ethical businesses will be providing food for thought at a seminar in Birmingham next month. Members of three co-operatives involved in the production and selling of food and drink will be talking on the topic of food sourcing.

Posted in Co-operative, Environment, Fairtrade, Food | Tagged Birmingham, Co-operative, Co-operative Retail Trading Group, Community First, food sourcing, Revolver Coffee, West Midlands, Worcestershire Roots Co-operative | Comments Off

Could Your Community Share?, seminar delegates asked

Posted on 10/09/2012 by Peter Davison

Village shop or pub at risk of closure? Want to establish an organic food or renewable energy business? Community shares could hold the answer to your finance issue. At a seminar about community shares in Gloucester last week, experts explained … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Big Society, Co-operative, Environment, Food, Retail | Tagged Co-operative Futures, Community Share Issue, Community Shares, Cultivate Oxford, Gloucestershire Community Energy Co-op, Solar Panels, Solar Power, Westmill Solar, Westmill Wind Farm | Comments Off

Learn about community shares from record-breaking solar farm

Posted on 10/08/2012 by Peter Davison

The chance to learn from a director of the company behind the UK’s most successful community share issue is being offered to businesses and community enterprises. Last month, Westmill Solar Co-op Ltd, on the Wiltshire / Oxfordshire border, reached its … Continue reading →

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Fairtrade means getting more than peanuts for your peanuts

Posted on 09/03/2012 by Peter Davison

Peanut farmer Rosemary Kadzitche of the Mchinji Area Smallholder Farmers’ Association The real difference that a Fairtrade economy makes to the world’s poorest people was expressed by some of the beneficiaries of the movement at a conference in London this … Continue reading →

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UK solar energy first for Warwickshire

Posted on 17/06/2011 by admin-sam

WHAT are believed to be the UK’s first community-owned solar power plants to be sited at hospitals will be built in Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon, it was announced this week. And local people will be able to play a part in … Continue reading →

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UK’s second largest community-owned solar plant to be built in Gloucester

Posted on 17/06/2011 by admin-sam

THE SECOND largest community-owned solar power plant in the UK is to be built in Gloucester, it was revealed this week. A bank of 190 solar panels will be installed on the roof of City Works, home of Gloucestershire Resource … Continue reading →

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Co-operatives can lead the way in creating a green and sustainable society

Posted on 21/03/2011 by admin-sam

Co-operatives can lead the way in creating a green and sustainable society, a conference in Reading heard. With community-led action and the Big Society high on the agenda, new co-operatives are emerging to face the challenges of climate change and … Continue reading →

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