After 19 years in business, Water Rhapsody know exactly what they’re doing. With a range of systems designed to save water, Water Rhapsody are encouraging potential ecopreneurs around South Africa to help the country conserve water and save them a good few bucks. Learn more about their products and how they work on their website [...]

Obviously, as an entrepreneur, saving your business money is vital. Now, if you care at all about the environment, there are things you can do to satisfy both interests. Set up an energy audit: Find a contractor or company to go over your offices or even your home to set up ways of saving energy [...]

“Going Green” is becoming a common term. It means being more environmentally friendly in your actions. Taking small steps to ensure that your impacts on the struggling planet earth are minimized. But HOW do you go green? Here are some of the things that big businesses are doing to go green: And WHY should you [...]

Whether you are working from home or running a multi-million dollar business, the same general principles apply for going green. There are little things you can do that will positively impact the environment as well as save you a few bucks. Simply follow the following guidelines: Switch off any equipment/electronics when they aren’t being used. [...]

What is the difference between an ordinary entrepreneur and an ecopreneur? Entrepreneur + Ecologist = Ecopreneur      ? It’s not quite that simple but that is a start. Sustainable business leaders and environmental entrepreneurs or ecopreneurs, come from a mindset that embraces and adapts to the dynamic changes both in the natural world and the global [...]

In this developing world, companies are going green or questioning going green all over the show.  Why should you own a green business and how do you get there? Why go green? Obviously the primary reason to go green is to help save the environment! These days even the world’s third largest public corporation, Wal-Mart sells organic [...]

JOHANNESBURG – Companies resisting change in the move towards a green economy could find themselves out in the cold as many corporates take the lead in lowering their carbon footprint to prevent climate change. Business greening consultant, Hugh Tyrrell, says companies, including small businesses, are beginning to realise that green credentials are becoming increasingly important, [...]

Business sustainability issues are well documented and in these challenging economic times it may be hard to justify investment in the development of any skills, let alone investment in any green ones. But, now is the time – employing green skills in your organisation and investing in them will enable you to identify efficiency savings [...]