Last week, I was lucky enough to get to visit innocent drinks' London HQ, Fruit Towers. Once I'd downed my own bodyweight in smoothies, marvelled at the fleet of 'cows' sitting in the driveway and lusted after various shiny bits of kitchen equipment, I caught up with sustainability manager Jess to talk about what innocent are doing towards helping the planet. Find out what I discovered in the video, below!
Recently our sister site Dollymix had the wonderful opportunity to interview Cindy Livingston, the President and CEO of Sequel AG, a new company that was created to to handle the growing European Union and booming international business of Guess Watches and Gc Watches. As well as being a successful and admirable businesswoman, Cindy Livingston is quite the humanitarian. One of Cindy's first priorities as the President and CEO of Sequeal AG was to to include philanthropy as part of its new Mission Statement, saying, “We have an opportunity and responsibility to expand upon all of the positive elements that have made our company and our brands respected around the world.”
The President of Interasia, Victor Ozeri, introduced Cindy to Safe House Ethiopia, which is a non-profit, walled compound in Addis Ababa that serves as a sanctuary for the poverty stricken children of the area. While there are little boys living at the Safe Horizons house, most of their guests are young girls, as it's not uncommon for a girl to quit school as early as 7 years old and be sent out to beg or engage in child labor for her family. It's incredibly dangerous for this young girls out on the streets, as many of the girls are even forced into child prostitution.
Last year, we reported that broadcaster Sky had gone carbon neutral. Since then, they have sponsored Lights Out London, introduced a 'recycle your set-top box' scheme, brought out a new green-minded cartoon character to appear on our screens shortly, and continue to get involved with loads of green initiatives.
Many companies are making similar claims about carbon neutrality, so we decided to look behind the hype and find out exactly what Sky have done to minimise emissions and encourage greenness in its customers and employees. I put some questions to them to find out...
Hippyshopper: Where does Sky get its green energy from? Do you use an eco-friendly electricity supplier?
This is the first in a series of 'videos in the dark' that we've decided to shoot for hippyshopper to try and save energy, hot on the success of Google's "blackle"...OK. only joking, but please be warned, the picture quality of this video is very dark, for which we apologise.
That aside, Catwalk Queen's Laura Street and myself had a lovely afternoon talking to Diana Bird, founder of the Wedge Card, the world's first loyalty card for local stores, which encourages its owners to discover the delights of local shopping. You'll benefit as a cardholder, with discounts at all shops that sign up for the scheme. But most importantly you'll be helping to revitalise communities and local traders, many of which are in danger of being swallowed up by retail giants. And investing in a Wedge card has never been better value, as Diana also told us she has just reduced the cost of the card to £10 from 20. Sign up for yours here!
In this ongoing series Dawn Mellowship interviews women who have dedicated their careers to ethical causes. Could this be your next career move?
Lydia Good is a Programme Officer for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG). MAG clear the remnants of conflict from some of the world’s poorest nations, educating and employing local people and helping to provide solutions for those trapped by poverty and economic devastation.
In this ongoing series Dawn Mellowship interviews women who have dedicated their careers to ethical causes. Could this be your next career move?
Linda Tiongo has worked for Christian Aid since 1992. Linda spent three months seconded to ACT International (Action by Churches Together) in Sri Lanka, after Tsunami. Christian Aid began in 1945 and is an agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland, working on development projects in over 60 of the world’s poorest countries, regardless of religion or race.
In this ongoing series Dawn Mellowship interviews women who have dedicated their careers to ethical causes. Could this be your next career move?
Hunger Pains
Amal is a nutritionist who spent time working in Action Against Hunger’s Therapeutic Feeding Centres in Niger. Action Against Hunger is, an international organisation that is at the forefront of the worldwide fight against hunger, with the long term goal of aiding vulnerable populations in recouping their self sufficiency.
Starting Out
I was a hospital based dietician originally. My first look at international humanitarian aid was working for four months at an orphanage at a nutrition centre in Honduras. The children that came in were really sick. I didn’t know if I was up to handling that kind of deprivation but I realised that I could see the positive side of what I was working towards.
Today is the first day of the British summer (allegedly), and this morning I caught up with Microsoft's James McCarthy, who had taken the opportunity to work for the day from a treehouse. I can't think of a better place to work, personally, though I admit it would be better if the weather had been more seasonal! We chatted about the green benefits of flexible working, how it isn't always necessary to travel in order to get work done, and how we could all benefit from a bit of flexibility in our attitudes to work.
AnyJunk’s boss, Jason Mohr, tells Hippyshopper why he binned a high-earning career in corporate finance and recycled himself to start an eco waste collection company. The qualified solicitor, who has an MBA, set up ANY JUNK?, which diverts more than 40 per cent of the junk it collects from landfill, winning a number of green awards for its recycling efforts. The company is famed for composting Skoda’s giant cake used on their recent Fabia advert.
In the final part of Celebrity Veggies Dawn Mellowship grills US actor Lisa Edelstein, who is currently starring in the FOX hit series HOUSE opposite Hugh Laurie. Lisa devotes a great deal of time to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in their efforts to re-home rescued animals and pets.
Why veggie? When I was a teenager I had food poisoning from a bagel because the bagel was made on a grill with meat and I could taste the meat on the bagel. I got really sick. Then I started having these nightmares about meat, they were creepy like this dream where I sat watching myself eating chicken for half an hour, ripping off the meat and sucking on the cartilage, snapping the veins and knawing on the bone as you do. By the end of the dream I realised that I was actually eating miniature human legs and arms. That just shifted my understanding of things and I became a vegetarian and it suited me.
Last week, I was lucky enough to get to visit innocent drinks' London HQ, Fruit Towers. Once I'd downed my own bodyweight in smoothies, marvelled at the fleet of 'cows' sitting in the driveway and lusted after various shiny bits of kitchen equipment, I caught up with sustainability manager Jess to talk about what innocent are doing towards helping the planet. Find out what I discovered in the video, below!
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This is the first in a series of 'videos in the dark' that we've decided to shoot for hippyshopper to try and save energy, hot on the success of Google's "blackle"...OK. only joking, but please be warned, the picture quality of this video is very dark, for which we apologise.
In this ongoing series Dawn Mellowship interviews women who have dedicated their careers to ethical causes. Could this be your next career move?
In this ongoing series Dawn Mellowship interviews women who have dedicated their careers to ethical causes. Could this be your next career move?
In this ongoing series Dawn Mellowship interviews women who have dedicated their careers to ethical causes. Could this be your next career move?
In the final part of Celebrity Veggies Dawn Mellowship grills US actor Lisa Edelstein, who is currently starring in the FOX hit series HOUSE opposite Hugh Laurie. Lisa devotes a great deal of time to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in their efforts to re-home rescued animals and pets. 
