Insider’s June issue takes on a green hue, with a cover story highlighting the positive business strategies that can be employed to tackle energy security and environmental good practice. The magazine also looks at the 100 fastest growing companies in the region in the annual Growth 100 feature. In the big interview Insider’s Rupert Cornford meets Owen McLaughlin, chief executive of Enterprise plc.
As the Climate Change Bill rumbles inevitably towards enactment, businesses are facing a future of green taxes and emissions targets. As Lisa Miles discovers, the message is loud and clear: act now or pay later. But what can you do after you’ve changed the light bulbs?
Owen McLaughlin isn’t one for grabbing headlines and column inches, so when Rupert Cornford was given the opportunity to interview the captain of the starship Enterprise he jumped straight on the train to Preston.
... certainly not. Liverpool is halfway through its year as European Capital of Culture and appears to be proving its harshest critics wrong. But what more does the city have left to do? Neil Tague takes a look at its progress so far.