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Neil McCabe and Damien Bligh planting trees for Grown

SUSTAINABILITY is good for business. So says Michele Hallahan, a sustainability consultant who argues that Irish companies should be doing more to safeguard the environment.

“We spend billions maintaining the roads, bridges, sewers, and electric infrastructure of our cities and towns, yet we don’t do enough to maintain our primary resource, which is the earth itself,” she says. “We’ve been plundering it for centuries, demolishing rather than regenerating it, and even though there is now a regulatory push for sustainability, businesses still aren’t doing enough. This is the case in Ireland and all over the world.”