Growing Closer
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The Hackney-based Growing Communities vegetable-box scheme has been running for about 20 years. Having reached saturation in Hackney, they considered how they were going to scale up and decided to…
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Bamboo Prophet
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Under Secretary Novelli Presents EcoPlanet Bamboo CEO Troy Wiseman the Secretary of State’s 2014 Award for Corporate ExcellenceBack then in the 1980’s, Troy was in his early 20s, building his…
Unrelenting Love
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While Camila Batmanghelidjh’s flamboyant fashion – her most noticeable feature – often elicits colourful descriptions, they certainly don’t do her justice. At 18, after graduating with a First in Theatre…
Sizzle to Slumber: Stéphane Oester’s Swiss Agritourism Success
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At the age of twenty-eight, Stéphane Oester – butcher by profession, farmer by trade – has built his generations-old farm gate business Boucher de Campagne (The Country Butcher) into a prestigious, cost-effective supplier of fine meats. And in addition to being a hand to the ploughshare kind of citizen, he is beloved by locals for his dedication, charisma and affable nature
Lessons From The Ocean
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As a boy, Brian was fascinated by tropical fish and purchased an aquarium with his pocket money. The fish geekery, at its apex, had led to 30 fish tanks and…
Freedom Fighters
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As much as we would like it to be, with 17,500 victims of human trafficking occurring in the United States alone every year, slavery is certainly not a thing of…
