Housr Partners with Play it Green to Drive Sustainability
Housr has partnered with Play it Green to make their workforce Climate Impact, repair the planet, and put them on the path to Net-Zero, all while supporting those who need it most. Housr is an end-to-end platform and mobile app for students and landlords/ letting agents. They simplify, streamline, and cheapen the process of student […]
Earth Month: Invest in Nature
This Friday will be Earth Day, and with how much we talk about living more sustainably, this day gives us time to think about why. The simplest and most obvious answer is that the planet Earth is our home. We don’t have another one, and we need to preserve it for our own sakes. […]
Green Arc Leisure Makes Their Workforce Climate Impact
Green Arc Leisure has partnered with Play it Green to make their workforce Climate Impact, helping to repair the planet and further their drive to Net-Zero. Green Arc Leisure are holiday & leisure park development specialists with an eco edge. Their team have first-hand experience in all aspects of creating, building and managing successful […]
London Lions to Hold Climate Action Game in Partnership with Play it Green
The London Lions, in partnership with Play it Green, will deliver an environmentally themed game day on April 22nd against the Cheshire Phoenix, using their activities as a vehicle for positive change. The game, which will occur on Earth Day, is intended to raise awareness of climate change and encourage spectators to take action against […]
Climate Innovations: Solar ‘Bricks’ and Ocean Corn
Renewables are picking up and the world is starting to buckle down when it comes to fighting climate change. Finding solutions to the world’s biggest problem isn’t easy, but scientists, engineers, and innovators are working every day to make the world a better place. In this article, we look at some of the most […]
Be a Circular Business
By now, you’ve probably heard of the circular economy. In the past, we have always taken resources, made products, and thrown them away after use. Obviously, this does not work forever. The circular economy means finding ways to share, lease, reuse, repair, refurbish, and recycle existing materials and goods for as long as […]
Sustainability Tip 56: Chew Plants, Not Plastic
Chewing gum is a regular habit for many. Yet, the fresh breath experience we all enjoy is one of the worst causes of litter in the world today. This is because most chewing gum is actually a single-use plastic. Just one piece contains as much as a straw. You may not even have […]
Airly UK Partners with Play it Green to Make Even Greater Impact
Airly UK has doubled down on their environmental efforts, partnering with Play it Green to repair our planet by planting trees, balancing their carbon footprint, and driving sustainability within their business. Already passionate about our environment and changing it, Airly is the leading cost-effective SaaS (sensing-as-a-service) solution for hyperlocal air quality monitoring and control. […]
Member in Focus: Levitex
In this week’s Member in Focus, we talk to James Leinhardt, the founder of Levitex Sleep Posture Experts, about the importance of a good night’s sleep and why being sustainable is important no matter what you do. To start off, why don’t you tell us a bit about Levitex and how you got started? By […]
Earth Month: Investing by Reducing
The theme of this year’s Earth Month is Invest in Our Planet, and over the next few weeks, we will look at three different ways you can do exactly that. The first, to reduce. And this means reducing everything; from how much we consume, how much energy we use, how much waste we throw […]
Zureli Partners with Play it Green to Drive Sustainability
Zureli has partnered with Play it Green to make their workforce Climate Impact, drive sustainability further within their business, and help them reach Net-Zero. Zureli is the only global B2B online marketplace and network specialising in eco-friendly and sustainable products, services, and technologies. They help organisations accelerate the change to a more sustainable business model, by connecting them […]
How to Solve Climate Change, According to Climate Scientists
The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on mitigation was released recently. After a particularly dreary look at how we are currently progressing into the climate crisis in their last report, this new one offers hope with the ways we can stop, or at the very least reduce its effects. […]
Investors Demanding Businesses Show Environmental Efforts
As the race to solve climate change picks up pace, businesses that don’t start considering the environment may risk losing funding. Investors are increasingly looking at key metrics to assess progress across environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in making their investment decisions. Medium-sized businesses, in particular, are falling behind, according to research […]
Sustainability Tip 55: Help The Bees
One of the first images that comes to your mind when thinking about climate change is probably a polar bear, floating on a melting iceberg. Yet, it’s important to remember that every species of plant and animal is under threat from climate change, including the ones in your own backyard. Take bees, for […]
Play it Green’s Charity Payments Increase Five-Fold
Thanks to Play It Green’s expanding membership, the award-winning sustainability company has just paid five times the amount it previously did to its growing list of good causes. Our unique 3-step solution to climate change means 10% of all revenues are passed onto good causes of each member’s choice, ensuring they are making a social […]
The Real Cost of Milk – a Mother’s Perspective
by Francesca Cook, Bitesize Epiphanies Mothers Milk is the first in a series of short animations that challenge the almost universally accepted beliefs driving us to the brink of extinction. Beliefs that cause harm to people, our planet and animals. Created by Bitesize Epiphanies, this first animation highlights the suffering of mother and baby […]
Earth Month: What Does ‘Invest in Our Planet’ Really Mean?
It’s Earth Month! And for the next four weeks, we will be taking stock of where we are in the fight against climate change, what we have accomplished and what we still need to do and to remind ourselves exactly what we are fighting for. In this first Earth Month article, we will take […]
GW Environmental Consulting Joins Play it Green
GW Environmental Consulting has doubled down on their eco-efforts by partnering with Play it Green to drive sustainability within their business, make their workforce Climate Impact, and assist them on the road to Net-Zero. GW Environmental Consulting was founded by Graeme Warnell in 2016 who, after becoming fed up with the rhetoric he was […]
Asda Trials ‘Spray-On’ Fruit & Veg Coating in Bid to Reduce Food Waste
How many times have you bought fruit or veg only for it to rot and need to be thrown away? ‘Too many’ is what you’d likely say, but it doesn’t have to be like that. In the UK, the ‘fruit and veg isle’ in the supermarket has often come under attack for how […]
London Lions Announce Partnership with Play it Green
London’s premier professional basketball team, London Lions, has partnered with Play It Green to help lower the club’s carbon footprint and enhance its environmental actions. London Lions, who play out of the Copper Box Arena in the British Basketball League, aim to deliver an environmentally themed matchday, along with an education programme for its […]
Business Tip: Clean Green
Cleaning is a necessary task, yet it doesn’t need to have such a devastating impact on our environment. From the chemicals inside to the greenhouse gases released during their products, cleaning products are harming nature, and it’s up to all of us to make better choices about what we use. The major concern […]
BREAKING NEWS: Aliens Make Contact, Want to Invest in Our Planet
Extraterrestrial life forms have reached out to world leaders and the wealthy around the globe, claiming to want to invest in our planet. The aliens, whose exact origin is still unknown, appeared in UFOs just last night, where they hovered over major cities around the world including London. While the situation is still […]
Wash Away Your Environmental Impact
From the earliest points in human history, we have always found ways to clean and groom ourselves, from Indian ‘soapberries’ used as shampoo to the ancient Egyptians grinding down beetles to make lipstick. However, as society and innovation progressed, people moved away from all-natural ingredients taken from the Earth to processed, packaged products. This, of […]
Held by Trees: Making Music that Heals Our Planet
From the launch of Climate Impact Music with Held by Trees to partnering with huge new music festival Summerfest, Play it Green is helping drive sustainability within the music industry and helping to make music that heals our planet. The launch of Climate Impact Music began in partnership with new instrumental project ‘Held by […]
The 1000 Tree Challenge
April 2022 is Earth Month and Play it Green’s first anniversary! To celebrate, we’re launching the 1000 Tree Challenge, to help everyone make the biggest social and environmental impact possible. This year’s theme is ‘Invest in Our Planet’ and that’s exactly what this challenge is all about, utilising the power of community and […]
The Fight To Tackle E-Waste
Do you keep your old laptops, computers, and phones? If you do, you’re not alone, and that’s just part of the reason electronic waste, or e-waste, is the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream. The reason this is such a huge issue is not only because of the amount of waste we are producing […]
Play it Green Co-Founder to Mentor SportsPro Sustainability Hackathon
SportsPro Media, the world’s leading international media company for the sports industry in print, digital and events, is holding a Sustainability Hackathon this April, following the success of the Hackathon last year. Play it Green Co-Founder, Richard Dickson, is amongst the 27 founders and industry leaders invited to be a mentor for the students taking […]
Sustainability Tip 53: Choose to Refill
When you throw a plastic bottle into the recycling, there’s no guarantee that it will actually be recycled. In fact, it probably won’t. According to the World Economic Forum, just 14% of all plastic packaging is collected for recycling around the world. Since the recycling process is so complex, huge amounts of ‘recycling’ that […]
Focus 5 Commits to Sustainability with Play it Green
Focus 5 Recruitment has partnered with Play it Green to plant trees, balance their carbon footprint, and drive sustainability within their business. The North-West digital and tech recruitment business will now make an immediate environmental and social impact through the trees they plant, all whilst being provided with the weekly tips and tools to […]
How Big Brands are Pushing Sustainability
There’s no denying that the world needs to change to fight climate change, and, slowly, it is. Today, we’re going to take a look at how some big brands are pushing for sustainability from their customers and within their operations. Ford Embraces Electric Vehicles Ford has confirmed the launch of seven new fully-electric vehicles in […]