the green house blog
Aug 13, 2010

Rechargeable Battery Management for the Home or Office

Categories: Energy, the green house

Earlier this year, I decided to start a rechargeable battery regime at my sister’s house, after noticing that the family used a lot of AA and AAA size batteries. This is mostly because of the handheld controllers for games consoles, such as the Xbox 360 and the Wii which use batteries very quickly.
There are numerous other devices which use batteries as well, such as TV and Cable box remote controls, clocks, wireless mouse and keyboard and even the new electric soap dispensers!

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Aug 05, 2010

Packaging, do we really need that much?

Categories: Card, Environment, Recycling, the green house

We all buy stuff from eBay and Amazon from time to time. We choose the product we like, add it to the basket, pay and have it delivered to our doors in few days. Sometimes we even sell some goods as well. We put the product up for sale, sell it and ship it. In both of above scenarios we are very cautious about getting the goods delivered in one piece, either we are a buyer or seller. This is when we consider packaging.

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Aug 04, 2010

Time for change? An open letter to the EA

Categories: Recycling, the green house

I like the EA. They have a difficult job and it’s made even harder when society and new governments place ever increasing demands on it to advance when the laws they are duty bound to enforce are not flexible enough to allow them to do it in a way that best fits.

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Jun 22, 2010

ZERO WASTE to Landfill Launch Day at Carphone Warehouse t/a e2save

Categories: Business, Environment, Food Waste, Mixed Recycling, the green house

The green house has been a awarded a partnership agreement in which to help Carphone Warehouse with their CSR aspiration to become ZERO WASTE to landfill at all of their non-retail sites in the UK.

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Jun 04, 2010

Quick visit to Tidy Planet

Categories: Business, Environment, Food Waste, Recycling, the green house

We took a road trip today to visit our friends at Tidy Planet in Macclesfield. For those that don’t know of Tidy Planet they produce the popular Rocket Composter used by many companies up and down the country to turn their organic waste into quality compost.

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Apr 20, 2010

Hello there

Categories: the green house

This is my first post here, please allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Hubert. I’ve been with the green house for over three years, responsible for online marketing design and web development.

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Apr 12, 2010

Can eco=brand?

Categories: Business, Environment, the green house

I’ve been posting a bit on Twitter about whether or not businesses can generate brand value out of embracing sustainability. As usual it’s met with polarising views ranging from the questionable to the absurd (one of the reasons I love Twitter :D ) but it’s certainly got me spending more time on the look out and thinking about whether eco=brand.

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Mar 29, 2010

DECC Grant Winners: A closer look

Categories: Business, Energy

Eight companies and their collaborative partners have been given grants by the Department of Energy and Climate Change today to explore smart technology.

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Mar 23, 2010

Supply and Save: Waste Operator Issue 1

Categories: Business

We launched the first Waste Operator Magazine last week. The monthly publication is aimed at our Member Network of partners – the service providers behind the green house products.

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Feb 27, 2010

Johnny Five is ALIVE!!

Categories: the green house

6 whole months in the making and more missed deadlines Portsmouth Football Club Tax Bill (too soon?) we have FINALLY finished our new look the green house website.

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