How easy is it to go 'green'?

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After watching parts of 'The Human Footprint' documentary on Channel 4 the other evening I visited their website to calculate my own human footprint.

This calculator asks for your date of birth and then tells you how much you will have consumed to date and what the likely total consumption will be during an average lifetime. This throws up some fascinating statistics. For example, I have eaten 5.3 pigs 3,849 carrots and 425 chickens to date! And my heart has already beaten 1,015,200,000 times! So this month I wanted to share some of the things we have been doing to make our business a little bit greener. While not a traditional ‘green’ IFA, the business owners of Informed Choice do have a lot of ‘green values’ and we have always do...

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