Results tagged “sustainability”

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By Andrew Williams

The last couple of years have not been easy for businesses in the UK. With the financial system in meltdown, household names going to the wall or being sold and banks holding out the begging bowl, it has been a crazy time to be running a business.

Click here for The Wharf's green spotlight on Greenwich company iGen Solar

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Will the economic downturn stick a pin in the green bubble?

The onset of the recession at the end of last year increased fears that companies may dump their eco-friendly policies to save their skins.

By Andrew Williams

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Many of our traditions have a timeless quality to them. I'm thinking of late-night kebab shops, burnt pink shoulders, not talking to each other on the Tube, that kind of thing.

Yet some truly fantastic British traditions have fallen by the wayside. The great British street party, for instance.

The festive season is upon us

By Andrew Williams on November 26, 2008 2:16 PM |

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There’s no point putting it off any longer. This week we will move into December and even the most solemn of Scrooges will have to accept that Christmas is upon us. The way the shops have been decked out for the past month and a half may suggest that we have been in the festive season for some time.

A different perspective