The Companies Bringing Sustainability to Their Customers Businesses can play a huge role in making sustainability more accessible to consumers. This week’s news shows how three major companies are making an impact and helping others do the same. IKEA Plans to Sell Solar Panels to Customers This month, IKEA US partnered with residential solar panel manufacturer SunPower to launch a new programme […]
How Businesses Can Help Others Live More Sustainably The climate crisis is one of the biggest challenges humanity has had to face, and all businesses have a responsibility to help by reducing their footprint and living more sustainably. However, businesses are also in the position to do so much more. They can spread the message of sustainability, inspiring others to take action […]
The Three-Step Solution: Reduce Everything we do at Play it Green is guided by our unique 3-step solution to climate change: Reduce, Repair, Regive. You may have noticed we recently changed the order to put Reduce first. This is because we believe it is the most important of the three, and today we would like to take some […]
How to Help Your Staff Commute Sustainably Transport continues to be the number one source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.K. and for businesses looking to step up in the fight against climate change, it’s the perfect area to start reducing in. There are plenty of options, from upgrading your fleet to electric to switching to home-working. Yet, these aren’t […]
Climate Positive Products Shoppers around the world are on the search for climate positive products, changing a once-niche market into a mainstream audience. This year, research has shown that purpose-driven consumers, those who choose products and brands based on how well they align with their values, became the largest segment (44%) of consumers across all product categories, and […]
How Being Sustainable Helps Attract Better Talent Businesses who embrace sustainability often do so out of a responsibility to the planet or to attract more customers. Yet, there’s another reason why they should consider it: to attract better talent. Employees are looking more and more to get hired by companies performing well on environmental sustainability and social responsibility. Take Unilever as […]
Be Transparent about Sustainability There are many things that get in the way of companies becoming more sustainable, but a major one is the fear that they may unknowingly engage in ‘greenwashing’. With the brand’s reputation on the line, many businesses decide it is safer to simply not take any action at all. This is the wrong move. […]
Member in Focus: The Eco Coffee Company For this week’s Member in Focus, we talked to Kieran Mitchell from The Eco Coffee Company all about being a sustainable business, what that means to them, and how Play it Green has helped them on their journey. To get us started, why don’t you tell us a little bit about The Eco Coffee Company […]
Consumer Attitudes Towards Sustainability and What We Can Learn New research has shown that consumer attitudes towards sustainability have changed. More consumers (64%) are concerned about the environment than they are about their own financial situation (54%), their health (40%), or the health of others (47%). The study by Accenture questioned more than 2,000 UK adults about their shopping habits and how important […]
Sustainability Tip 57: Make Every Day Earth Day Happy Earth Day! Today is all about celebrating the wonderful world that we live in and, with this year’s theme, thinking about how we can invest in the planet for our future. The simplest answer, living more sustainably. As we talked about in our Invest in Nature article, Earth is our only […]
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 […]