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Accolades for top businesses: VIBES Awards 2008

VIBES Awards
Scotland's leading environmentally conscious businesses were crowned at a prestigious award ceremony in Edinburgh on Wednesday 3 December 2008.





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Waste Aware Business - web advice

wasteawarelogo.jpgThe Waste Aware Business site operated by Keep Scotland Beautiful is a website that contains a directory of where and what business can recycle in Scotland. It's Free.




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The Business Environment Partnership

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The Business Environment Partnership is a not-for-profit organisation that manages a numer of resource efficiency programmes across Scotland, runs a student placement programme and provides consultancy towards achieving quality management standards such as ISO 14001.





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Carbon Trust - carbon management advice

Carbon Trust
The Carbon Trust is funded by government and provides access to surveys into buildings design, training, energy acreditation and operates a loans scheme.


 




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Image Welcome to Sustainable Scotland Welcome to sustainablescotland.com, launched in 2008 and brought to you by Forward Scotland. This is your site to post information about activities in your sector or area of interest. You can even choose your profile to view the most relevant articles and receive a regular bulletin.
 

Communities

localveg.jpg Go on - Eat Local With the profile gained by projects such as the Fife Diet check out the orginal thinking from the pioneers, the Smiths from Vancouver Canada. ...

Business

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100,000 new jobs? Gordon Brown has ambitious plans for a 1930s American-style programme of public works to ease the pain of recession by creating up to 100,000 jobs. ...
 

People

house.jpg Building greener houses Those Americans aren't that far off the mark when it comes to developing and pioneering solutions to our global problems. Other lobbiest just seem to come out on top. Still check out this guide to gre...

Policies

cashstock2.jpg Spend your cash locally The re-localization of goods and services is one of the healthiest trends sweeping across the country. The popularity of the locavore concept has spawned other local initiatives. “Locavestors&...
 

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From 01-01-2009 until 06-01-2009 we have
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  • 14:56 - 17.12.2008 Blog >> People
    The much publicised year of homecoming is potentially a great climate change disaster and one which I am sure Robert Burns would not approve of. ...
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  • 16:04 - 10.12.2008 Blog >> Business
    Some businesses in Scotland are making progress to reduce their carbon footprint through acting in a sustainable manner. This was evident at the VIBES Awards in Edinburgh. ...
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  • 12:45 - 24.11.2008 Blog >> Communities
    2009 looks like a bad year for community hard work. The scarcity of funding that abounds in the financial markets is being mirrored in the world of philanthropy and other funding streams. Many trusts and charitable foundation have battened down the hatches as the banking system has been unravelling. Investment funds not yielding predicted returns ...
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  • 12:14 - 20.11.2008 Blog >> Policy

    Yesterday we heard from Stewart Stephenson at a conference in Edinburgh that the government supported the concept of demand responsive solutions to our travel and transport needs. Of course the government should be supportive it is a sustainable development no brainer. A demand responsvie approach gets people from A2B in a more efficient, econ...

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  • 13:00 - 06.10.2008 Blog >> Communities
    So should 80 school teachers be flying to Marbella for a professional development event?  Found myself getting upset with all the fuss today, as why shouldn't a group that is hardly overpaid be allowed to travel to work hard for a couple of days and maybe enjoy an hour by the pool?  Hearing the families and journalists today you'd think i...
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