Green/sustainable business

Good Energy appoints new directors as it powers ahead with growth strategy

January 31, 2014
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Good Energy appoints new directors as it powers ahead with growth strategy

Good Energy, the Chippenham-based renewable electricity supplier, has appointed experienced insurance industry finance director Denise Cockrem as its chief financial officer. Ms Cockrem, who takes up the post on May 1, is currently UK & Western Europe Finance director at multinational insurance group RSA. Prior to joining RSA in 2006 she was finance director...

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Komedia Bath’s café earns top billing as ‘vegan-friendly’ venue

January 29, 2014
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Komedia Bath’s café earns top billing as ‘vegan-friendly’ venue

The Arts Café at Bath comedy venue Komedia has been named as one of the UK’s top five vegan-friendly cultural venues. The accolade has been made by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the UK-based charity dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. The cafe has a strong ethical...

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Fairtrade Business Awards aim to recognise the Bath area’s responsible firms

January 27, 2014
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Fairtrade Business Awards aim to recognise the Bath area’s responsible firms

Firms with a conscience are being urged to enter the South West Fairtrade Business Awards 2014 before this Friday’s deadline. Now in their second year, the awards recognise and showcase the efforts of businesses across the region which use Fairtrade products and support fair and ethical business practices. Each of the six categories has...

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West of England Business of the Year Awards are launched to find region’s best companies

January 24, 2014
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West of England Business of the Year Awards are launched to find region’s best companies

Accountants PwC have launched their annual search for the region’s best companies with the 2014 West of England Business of the Year Awards – the region’s most prestigious business accolades. Previous winners of the awards, now in their 26th year, read like a who’s who of the West’s most-respected companies, including Dyson, MITIE and...

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Major Singapore project is child’s play for Bath landscape architects

January 23, 2014
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Major Singapore project is child’s play for Bath landscape architects

The latest attraction at a massive park on reclaimed land in central Singapore has opened to the public – the result of a major contract by Bath-based landscape architects Grant Associates. The Children’s Garden is a one-hectare site with play experiences for all ages, including water play, rainforest tree houses, ridge top trails and...

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Low Carbon Business Breakfast to look at home truths about sustainable housing

January 8, 2014
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Low Carbon Business Breakfast to look at home truths about sustainable housing

Intelligent design and its role in low carbon construction is the topic for the first Low Carbon Business Breakfast of the new year, held in Bath on January 21. Among innovations to be discussed will be self-healing concrete, use of nanoparticles in construction and building houses that make their occupants happy. The session will...

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Land experts at Bath law firm Thrings help UK’s biggest solar farm power ahead

January 6, 2014
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Land experts at Bath law firm Thrings help UK’s biggest solar farm power ahead

Construction work has started on the UK’s largest solar power farm, thanks to Bath-based agricultural land specialists at West law firm Thrings. The firm acted in collaboration with land agency WebbPaton on behalf of the landowner of the 230-acre site near Didcot, including negotiating the lease of the land to Hampshire-based solar farm developer...

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New Year’s Honours for Bath business figures

December 31, 2013
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New Year’s Honours for Bath business figures

Some of the Bath area’s best-known business figures – and some who are lesser known – have been recognised in today’s New Year’s Honours list. Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud, pictured, who lives in a 15th-century farmhouse near Frome, has been honoured for services to sustainable living and energy saving with the MBE. Mr...

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Top UK ranking for Wiltshire housing group GreenSquare

December 31, 2013
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Top UK ranking for Wiltshire housing group GreenSquare

GreenSquare, the social housing group with an office in Chippenham, has been placed among the top five housing associations in the UK. It is the only South West-based housing association to be included in the list, compiled by leading industry magazine 24housing and the Housing Quality Network (HQN). GreenSquare came in at number five...

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Legal challenge to Good Energy’s Dorset solar scheme

December 30, 2013
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Legal challenge to Good Energy’s Dorset solar scheme

Chippenham-based renewable electricity supplier Good Energy is taking legal advice following a challenge to its plans to build a 28 megawatt (MW) solar energy site in East Dorset. The firm, which received planning consent for the project in November, said it understood a claim had been submitted to the Administrative Court for a judicial...

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