The country’s “greenest” supermarket that has opened: built from wood, it uses rainwater to flush customer toilets, has a wood chip boiler to heat the place, and wind turbines to power its checkouts. The new Sainsbury’s store in Dartmouth will use 50% less energy from the national grid and produce 40% less CO2 than a normal store. The rainwater bog-flush alone will save more than one million litres of mains water every year (that’s a lot of people going to the lavatory at their local supermarket, isn’t it?). Its electricity bill will be a third lower than a normal supermarket, saving Sainsbury’s £200,000 a year. Its pretty hard to label the build with the “greenshit/bullwash” label: Sainsbury’s planted 400 trees to compensate for the 200 used in the timber frame, and 90% of the building waste being recycled. Even the delivery lorry also made its first drop off at the store powered by the gas produced from rotting rubbish. A sizeable doff of my bowler hat to Sainsbury’s. More of the same please.

There’s only two easy ways to a millionaire’s lifestyle: give-in to John Leslie or win the lottery. Make no mistake, all other ways require work, and lots of it. This is confirmed by a Bank of Scotland survey of 1,000 small and medium sized businesses that found British entrepreneurs working 50-hour weeks and several are taking less than the UK statutory holiday minimum – and over a quarter of them see things getting worse before they get better thanks to the looming recession. And, as with most things, it gets more depressing as you head north: Scottish entrepreneurs work the most hours, about 4 hours more than those in the South East. The survey found that 71% of bosses claim to be stressed, up from 54% last year. The survey makes an interesting point at its coda: many of those interviewed felt that the extended hours weren’t spent satisfying the needs of a growing business, but dealing with tax and regulation red tape. It’s a nice idea to be your boss, but its funny how you don’t see Sean Jean filling out his small firm loans guarantee form…

Calling all women with a smart idea: wealth management firm Addidi (Latin for “we inspire” fact fans) is set to launch an all-female investment club with plans to invest £2m in British start-up firms and small businesses. Addidi Angels is being set up by Addidi’s founder, Anna Sofat, who is looking for up to 100 women to invest £10,000 a year over two years. The club is likely to invest in socially responsible companies, and in “tangible” assets such as property and art firms. Good luck ladies.

While sales in ‘black’ tea, the sort you find in your standard supermarket-brand bag, are down 8%, sales of herbal, fruit and, most notably, green teas - the latter packed with antioxidants and good for the immune system - are booming – up 61%! The companies leading the tea revolution tend to be small, entrepreneur operations like Newby Teas, Jing Tea and Postcard Teas. But there’s big money too: India’s mighty Tata Group bought Tetley for £271m, Apeejay Surrendra group, also from India, bought Typhoo for £80m, and earlier this year Tata was at it again, bidding £30m for Clipper, a speciality producer of fairtrade and organic teas and coffees based in Dorset. Tata failed and Clipper, founded in 1984 by husband-and-wife team Michael and Lorraine Brehme, was sold to the financial firm Fleming Family and Partners. Why? Because if you want a tea brand to fly overseas in places like lucrative Russia, it needs to be British – think Whittard of Chelsea or Taylors of Harrogate. Both have currency, unlike Surrendra of Mumbai. People like the idea of being a tea connoisseur, so while Starbucks is closing shops, halting growth plans and liking its wounds, a better career bet right now might be to keep it real with a cup of splosh.