Fran Monks
Open a Café Venetia Strangwayes-Booth runs a café which is transforming a neighbourhood. Before Venetia started business selling delicious coffee, cakes and sandwiches on the Chatsworth Road in Hackney, London,…Read More
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Create a Tranquil Space Kimberly Wilson sits comfortably as she talks, legs crossed on a bench decorated with polka dot pink and black cushions. We’re upstairs in the Washington DC…Read More
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Make a business out of other people’s waste Robert Egger is founder and CEO of DC Central Kitchen. The Kitchen is located behind one of the largest homeless hostels in…Read More
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Build a website “Don’t underestimate the challenge of making a free to user website stack up financially” That’s the advice Jamie Wallace would like to give anyone who wants to…Read More
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Start a cult I met Danny Wallace, the accidental hero who inspired the social phenomenon “Join Me!” that’s become known as “guerrilla benevolence” and the “Karma Army”, in a busy…Read More
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Run a shop Since Organic and Natural opened around the corner from my house about two years ago, it has made a big difference to my life as well as…Read More
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Save Energy Tim Crozier-Cole and Cathy Hough are a partnership with no shortage of energy. Their laughter is infectious and their spirits are irrepressible. Maybe this is attributable to the…Read More
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Inspire others to be green When I arranged to meet Trewin Restorick, I did not expect to be interviewing him in an extravagantly teak-panelled room in the heart of Lincoln’s…Read More
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Write a letter, come to a meeting, go to a rally The first thing that strikes you about Gene Karpinski is how fast he talks; three decades of representing the…Read More