How can small businesses make a positive impact on the environment?
FESPA’s Online Marketing Manager, Kelley-Ann Young Kong speaks to Clare Taylor from Clare Taylor Consulting about how businesses can still make an impact on the environment and how even small businesses can make a difference as well as looking at the importance of “thinking global and acting local.”
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