Do our green credentials matter to you? Incase they do, here they are…
	Recycling We don't produce a great deal in the way of rubbish.  What we do, is largely paper and cardboard.  Aside from a few tea-bags, empty olive tubs and humus containers (well this is Islington after all), more than 90% of our waste is recycled.  That's pretty good isn't it?
	Energy Consumption We can't afford air-conditioning, so that saves a fair bit of electricity. Did you know that air-conditioning in London is a vicious circle? They (clever people) reckon that there are now so many air-conditioners in use that they generate enough heat spewing onto the streets to raise the temperature outside by around 4 degrees centigrade, which, by a bizarre coincidence is about the same reduction that they achieve inside. We've dumped more than 75% of our old light bulbs and replaced them with energy savers.  They're bloody expensive - about 7 quid as opposed to 60p each.  It'll be years before we get our money back in cost savings on the leccy bills, but to be honest, the main reason for doing it was because it makes the shops much cooler (not that we're not already the coolest shops around) and helps with the lack of air-conditioning.
	Transport We run a diesel VW Transporter van for the smaller of our deliveries. Not sure there's an electric van of a similar size on the market at present. For everything else we use a lovely firm of furniture movers called James Deighton & Co - which means we don't need a big fleet.   Brownie points for that? We don't have one of those meaningless travel plans that many companies have been encouraged to subscribe to, just so it seems as though they care about the environment, but none of our 20 or so staff drive to work: some walk, some are subjected to the crap buses that Livingstone did his best to make so unpleasant, some the Tube and others cycle.  When travelling between branches, we all tend to cycle on Bromptons - which, if you don't already know, are the sexiest folding bike in existence.
	Stock The greenest thing about After Noah is the stuff we sell.  Vintage • It doesn't get better for the environment than buying things that have been owned by someone before you.  With antique and vintage items, not only do you nearly always get something which is of far superior quality to its contemporary equivalent,  nor do you just benefit from the fact that you aren't even paying for the cost of manufacture or labour - there simply isn't really any environmental cost at all - whatever the cost at the time, the planet's already paid for it.  How good is that?  New Stuff  •  We source as much stock as we can locally - as in UK-based - but with the state of manufacturing in this country, it's impossible to entirely stock our shops from the UK alone.  The next step is to source ethically, which to be truthful, is harder than you'd imagine - but we do our best.  Beyond that, we try not to buy stuff that's over packaged and covered in plastic and that's relatively easy for us, because most badly packaged stuff is horrid and we've got such great, simple taste - we'd never stock it in the first place.

Bags We used to use plastic bags.  They were biodegradable before everyone else bothered, but now we're a bit concerned about Albatross and other marine life choking to death on discarded packaging that is improperly disposed of - so we're running our stock of them down and have switched to paper ones.  The paper bags we use, apart from being sweet, are ethically sourced and conform to all manner of incomprehensibly named Standards and the production of which are carbon neutral. We also never ask a customer if they want a bag, but rather, if they need one.  In the past 2 years, we've seen our bag consumption drop by 75% as a result of that sort of general awareness.  We also sell re-useable shopping bags.