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A London community eco café has been thrown a lifeline to continue operating for another year after a successful fundraising effort. A campaign by the FoodCycle Café in Haringey, powered by crowdfunding website Peoplefund.it and supported by celebrities, MPs and Twitter, reached its £5,000 target this week...
Posted: 07 February 2012 | 17:20
Three of the leading green tourism organisations in the UK are joining forces to promote sustainable tourism and hospitality businesses. The Green Tourism Business Scheme, Greentraveller.co.uk and the Considerate Hoteliers Association are working together to offer benefits to each other's members.
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 16:37
Five Croydon schools have been selected to take part in a 12-week school food collections waste pilot scheme, with a view to possible expansion across the borough. Recycling in Croydon was stepped up last year when a domestic food-waste collection service was introduced.
Posted: 27 January 2012 | 16:06
Scottish and Irish suppliers of hand-dived scallops, used in fine dining restaurants across the country, are at risk of going out of business because of draconian EU regulations. The rules, which were reinforced last year, have taken their toll on suppliers as they prevent them from selling scallops whole.
Posted: 26 January 2012 | 11:24
Ode in Shaldon, Devon, has been named the UK's most sustainable restaurant by the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA). The SRA's inaugural national awards, announced at London's Cinnamon Club today, recognised restaurants across seven categories covering all aspects of sustainability.
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 13:13
There are always more environmental measures that it's possible to take, but they're not always practical or - more importantly - profitable. To give you a green start, Emily Manson has foraged for monthly measures that won't cost the earth
Posted: 20 January 2012 | 14:29
Restaurants use a lot of energy. The flipside of that is that those businesses that look to address their energy usage head-on can not only do a great deal for the environment, but also save themselves considerable sums of money.
Posted: 20 January 2012 | 12:12
Compass Group has launched a new mix-and-match food offer aimed at customers looking for an easy approach to healthy eating at breakfast or lunchtime. The "whole + sum" concept is made up of three mix-and-match components, and no complete dish adds up to more than 500 calories.
Posted: 19 January 2012 | 13:53
A report released this week by a committee of MPs recommended that people should have at least two days a week completely clear of alcohol, as the issue of excessive drinking continues to dominate the headlines. The MPs also highlighted problems when it came to understanding how many units of alcohol there were in a drink.
Posted: 13 January 2012 | 09:00
A new seafood restaurant is to open at the Bedruthan Steps hotel on the coast of north Cornwall as a result of a partnership with the owners of the Porthminster Beach Café. Due to open in April, the restaurant will feature the best elements of seasonal, locally sourced produce with an Asian twist.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 15:07
Lexington Catering has introduced calorie labelling to its Let's Energise product range as part of its efforts to support the Government's Public Health Responsibility Deal. The caterer teamed up with Tucker, nutritionist and health and wellbeing consultant at Be Happy Be Healthy...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 10:30
The Cadbury brand has launched a new campaign in support of Fairtrade Fortnight, which runs from 27 February to 11 March 2012. The campaign features stand-out PoS and imagery to help consumers identify how easy it is to back Fairtrade Fortnight, by enjoying the Cadbury branded products that are involved.
Posted: 05 January 2012 | 18:24
Pride Catering has scooped a hat trick of silver Food for Life Catering Marks for its school meals work in the South-east. The caterer's contracts at Vineyard, Heathfield and Brookland schools - all in the South-east - were previously bronze. Pride now holds one gold, four silver and seven bronze catering marks.
Posted: 05 January 2012 | 12:21
Having launched Hyatt Thrive, the hotel group has attempted to put environmental processes at the heart of the company. Vice-president of corporate social responsibility Brigitta Witt explains to Rosalind Mullen the local steps they've taken and why they make a difference to staff, the business and the community
Posted: 16 December 2011 | 15:59
On-trade wine merchant Jascots is to start picking up and recycling empty wine bottles and boxes when it makes a delivery, in a bid to go green. The company said it was concerned that while many businesses recycle glass bottles and cardboard boxes, a large proportion still goes to landfill.
Posted: 16 December 2011 | 11:54
The Lussmanns Fish & Grill Restaurants group has been awarded a two-star rating by the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA). The restaurants, in St Albans and Hertford, were assessed across 14 areas and awarded the two-star rating for their excellent credentials in sourcing, environment and society...
Posted: 15 December 2011 | 10:31
Education caterer Alliance in Partnership (AiP) has been awarded the Soil Association's Food for Life Gold Award for its 26 contracts in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The caterer was recognised for providing freshly prepared, locally sourced, organic, free-range and Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) meals.
Posted: 13 December 2011 | 13:10
Battlesteads hotel, near Hexham in Northumberland, is the winner of the Hotel Cateys Green Hotel of the Year 2011 award.
Posted: 08 December 2011 | 12:18
Interest in sustainable fish has soared in 2011. Much of that is down to Hugh's Fish Fight campaign to reverse the EU laws that see half of all fish caught in the North Sea thrown back - dead.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 15:27
As customers' environmental concerns combine with cost cutting, Emily Manson asks whether the glory days of bottled water are officially over
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 14:25
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