Take Your Company From Green to Gold!

“Does your business have a good green story to tell? Enter the Sustainable Business Awards and let us know! Customers are increasingly demanding that businesses meet their environmental requirements, so why not prove your green credentials by winning a Sustainable Business Award?”
Stephen Duncan, Sustainable Business Partnership Manager

The 5^th Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sustainable Business Awards were launched on 2^nd June at Greenhouse Graphics Ltd, winners of the 2007 Leadership category, and are now open for entries. The Awards celebrate and reward local businesses which have worked to improve their environmental, social and economic impacts.

The closing date for entries is Friday 11^th July 2008

For more details on the Awards and how to enter, see the full story.

We first exhibited at the bi-annual Farnborough International Airshow in 2006. We felt brave as there must be few places on Earth where sales in a week are measured in £billions and all of it is highly fossil fuel dependent to both manufacture and operate.
Suggesting to the sales forces on the many impressive stands that they might consider the environmental impact of their products as either a risk or an opportunity was treated with almost universal derision and the experience was depressing.

However, some exhibitors in 2006 were sufficiently prescient to want to explore the issues further. Two years later, with the support of the Farnborough Aerospace Consortium (FAC) and funding from both SEEDA and Envirowise we have helped twenty aerospace and defence companies in the South East to understand, measure and reduce their environmental impacts. Between them they also saved almost £500,000 of recurring costs. A return on investment of 5:1.

We are returning to the Farnborough International Airshow again this year but much more optimistic that we will receive a more positive reception. Read full article

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Olive are delighted to welcome Emma Dye who will join them in July 2008 as an Environmental Consultant. Emma is graduating with a BSc (Hons) Environmental Science and has worked part time at Olive since June 2007. During that time, she successfully completed an extensive piece of research on the issue of waste for small and medium businesses in Hampshire.

Olive is also strengthening its team with the addition of Karen Bladen, Protégé Management Director and expert in Local Authorities procurement, who will lead the Olive Sustainable Procurement product development effort.