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Mar 2023
Business Breakfast: Eco-focused Ripon business celebrates successful first year
It’s time to join the Stray Ferret Business Club. The third in our series of networking events in association with The Coach and Horses in Harrogate is a lunch event on March 30 from 12.30pm.
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The GreenHouse, an environmentally and ecologically-focused business in Ripon, is celebrating a successful first year this week.
Rebecca Crallan, who owns and manages the independent retailer based in North Street, told Business Breakfast:
The business operates with a planet-friendly ethos, selling home and garden supplies designed to have minimal impact on the environment through use of refillable bottles, biodegradable packaging and the sale of items ranging from compostable sponges to bamboo toothbrushes, wax food wraps to solid shampoo bars.
Ms Crallan added:
As a footnote to its first year of trading, The GreenHouse has donated 137 pairs of socks to homeless people via Thriving Earth's donation initiative
Harrogate climate firm appoints new scientist
A Harrogate-based climate technology firm has appointed a new climate scientist.
Flotilla, which is based on Station Parade, has hired Dr Charlotte Weaver to the company.
Dr Weaver joins the firm after working with charities such as the United Bank of Carbon.
She will be tasked with carrying out data analysis of Flotilla’s carbon accounting to ensure its accuracy for businesses to use to monitor their carbon footprint.
Dr Weaver said:
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