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 […]
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 […]
Held by Trees: Making Music that Heals Our Planet From the launch of Climate Positive 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 Positive Music began in partnership with new instrumental project ‘Held by […]
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 […]
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 […]
Business Tip: Make Your Meals Sustainable Of all the many ways businesses can reduce their footprint, food is one area that often gets left to the wayside. Yet, it takes a tremendous amount of energy to produce and transport. On top of that, food waste alone is responsible for releasing around 150Mt of carbon dioxide. That’s almost 30% of the […]
How Our Polish Members are Supporting Ukraine Undoubtedly by now, you have heard about the horrific situation in Ukraine. Many of us around the world are following the news with shock and horror, but it’s also important to remember all of the people out there still doing good. Hearing from some of our members in Poland, we wanted to share their stories […]
9 Ways Small Business Can Reduce Carbon Emissions by Regi Publico The largest corporations have the most significant contribution to the world’s carbon emissions. Only 100 of the hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide are responsible for 71% of the total greenhouse gas emissions since 1998. However, this doesn’t mean that the carbon footprint of small businesses doesn’t matter. The United Nations’ […]
Sustainability Tip 51: Embrace Zero-Waste Everyone has heard the phrase ‘reduce, repair, recycle’ before, and for good reason, too. Using less, and reusing what we have, is what sustainability is all about. After all, our planet has a limited amount of resources and a growing population. Demand for pretty much everything is at an all-time high; food, clothing, […]
Make Sustainability a Part of Your Strategy Why do businesses invest in sustainability? Partly out of necessity and because of our changing climate, yes, but also often because of the other benefits it can bring. In fact, sustainable initiatives in the workplace are now undeniably good for business. Yet, many companies just simply aren’t seeing the benefits or, in some cases, […]
Finding Our Carbon Feet in a World of Emissions by Emma Burlow “It’s 2122. The world has changed. Your great-great-grandchild is living on a planet that is several degrees warmer than the one you live on today. What did you do to change the course of history?” The author Robin Hobb wrote that “if you can read, you can learn anything”. Literacy is the […]