For all the green rhetoric being tossed around today by the manufacturers of plastic pallets about their sustainability and recyclable nature, the facts are still the facts. Plastic, in any form other than its possible color, isn't green in any measurable degree.

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An article about putting in place the systems and processes that will ensure a business gains the upper hand on its competitors.

Today's market economy depends on consumers to spend money in businesses that they trust. The increased prevalence of issues like identity theft has increased consumer awareness in regards to the integrity of businesses and their employees. One agency that helps ameliorate consumer concerns (though not necessarily with identity theft) is the Better Business Bureau.

Google appears to penalize web sites which do not support Google's political agenda.

Once upon a time, businesses would brag about their charity work and involvement with community programmes, but Green issues are now top of the agenda.

Despite concerns about the viability of ethical consumerism in a recession, many ethical retailers are reporting growth in the fourth quarter of 2008, with further growth projected for 2009. So will the global economic downturn hit ethical retailers, or will consumers spending continue to favour products with a conscience?

Palestinians might not have much to smile about right now, considering the onslaught of Israeli aggression they have experienced since Christmas, but 2009 sees the launch of Palestinians' first fair trade product.

Fairtrade pioneer, Bruce Crowther of Garstang, the world's first fair-trade town, has been awarded an MBE in the new year's honours list.

London has officially become the world's largest fair trade city, after more than a thousand businesses agreed to sell fairly traded goods.