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Common Energy Efficiency Mistakes Your Business Should Avoid
Common Energy Efficiency Mistakes Your Business Should Avoid
Thanks to the growing advocacy, education, and consciousness of how human activities affect the environment, most consumers are becoming increasingly aware of their role in reducing these harmful effects. This has led to businesses putting necessary measures to meet the growing demands placed on them by their environmentally conscious customers. An effective way businesses can address climate change issues is to adopt energy-efficient solutions in their day-to-day business processes.
Showing Your Customers That Your Business Actually Cares About the Environment
Customers these days will much prefer a brand that shows they care about the environment. They want to align themselves with a brand that is sustainable and they want to invest their money into companies that are ethical in every sense. Unfortunately, the business world understands this and there are some companies that will go as far as to lie to their customers or show a false impression that they care about the environment.
Be more environmentally friendly by protecting your home
Being more environmentally friendly is something that should be at the forefront of everyone’s minds. Hearing the fantastic news that the impacts of Coronavirus had on the environment should make everyone passionate about doing all we can to reduce waste and be more environmentally friendly.
The Benefits Of Embracing Greener Operations For Entrepreneurs
The environment is never too far away from the headlines, and as a population, we are becoming increasingly interested in what we can do to protect the planet. With climate change a real threat, businesses all over the world are taking steps to embrace greener ways of working. If you run a company, and you’re keen to do your bit, here are some of the most significant benefits of adopting eco-friendly measures and policies.
Climate Change: How Your Small Business Can Make a Big Impact
According to statistics, about 100 of the several businesses in the world are responsible for 71% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Greenhouse gas emissions are the nasty by-product of manufacturing that play a leading role in causing global warming.
Suffice to say; businesses should be at the forefront in promoting campaigns to manage climate change.
Albeit industries being the root cause for global warming, it is a necessary element for the development of humankind. More and more innovations keep arising, which have a significant impact on the environment.
It is a legal mandate for companies to ensure the responsible discarding of their waste in every country. Improper waste management is one of the leading causes of climate change.
As a business, your operations will most likely lead to an impact on the environment. It is your sole duty to ensure that you manage any impact you create on your environs.
What Are the Benefits of Adopting a Continuous Improvement Culture?
No matter if you’re running a small local business or an international corporation, continuous improvement is a mindset that is beneficial to all companies. It’s the idea of making small yet tangible changes, then applying them to a larger scale in order to make positive changes to a company. But what exactly can we expect after a long period of continuous improvement?
The 'triangle of deceit' in climate conversations: ESG, net-zero and voluntary carbon markets
Amid the blizzard of corporate decarbonisation announcements, there has been some scepticism about how these ambitions will be realised, and what sort of solutions will be used to achieve them. Among the most outspoken of sceptics is Assaad Razzouk, a Singapore-based clean energy entrepreneur and host of the podcast Angry Clean Energy Guy.
Amazon begins the ‘huge’ lift to shrink the carbon footprint of its devices to reach climate goals
Amazon’s newest Echo Dot is sold in charcoal, glacier white and twilight blue. But behind the scenes, the smart speakers that deliver Alexa are newly greened.
The Seattle-based tech giant is working to shrink its carbon footprint to reach carbon neutrality by 2040, an ambitious target and one that Amazon has convinced more than 100 other companies to join through its Climate Pledge.
To fulfill its climate promise, Amazon needs to curb emissions generated in every aspect of its trillion dollar business — including the climate debt created in the production, use and disposal of its Echo Dots, Fire TV devices, Fire tablets, Kindles and other products.
Experts in the sustainability industry say it’s a significant, potentially costly initiative. And while other tech companies appear to be a few steps ahead, Amazon is in a good position to make a meaningful difference given its resources and dominance in the technology and retail sectors. The key is making sure these greener practices are widespread and permanent in their adoption, according to those both in and outside of the company.
Wisconsin Girl Scouts on a Mission to Educate an Industry
Girl Scout Troops 1477 and 1952 of the Wisconsin Badgerland Council decided they wanted to do a project to raise awareness about solutions to climate change. After looking into the biggest contributors to global warming, they were surprised to discover that embodied carbon of materials, especially concrete production, was a major factor. The Girl Scouts realized that among climate change topics, materials and concrete were less commonly discussed.
They also realized that as as Girl Scouts, they just might be able to reach a broader audience and have a material impact on a global challenge. The video they produced also turned out to be a wonderful opportunity for them to learn concepts in chemistry, engineering, architecture, planning, business, and policy, and to help them consider careers in these fields.
Climate Change Is Making Big Problems Bigger
New data compiled by the E.P.A. shows how global warming is making life harder for Americans in myriad ways that threaten their health, safety and homes.
ECO Business 101: How To Makes Sure Your Company Is As Green As Possible
One of the most important things that any business can do is to reevaluate its processes in terms of sustainability. The good news is many actions can be taken to ensure your business is running in the most eco-fiending way possible. Discover some of the simplest and most significant ones.
Reducing The Carbon Footprint Of A Home Based Business
A home based business, but its very nature, is already doing its bit to reduce the carbon footprint of its owner, workers, and operations. After all, you both live and work in this environment, so you’ve cut your total carbon emissions by half! But could you be doing more to reduce this number even further?
The Duty Of Businesses Going Green In 2021
Climate change, or global warming, means an increase in the average temperature measured on Earth. Climate change is mainly caused by the use of fossil fuels, which results in the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the air. These gases cause heat storage in the atmosphere, a phenomenon that can cause various effects on ecosystems, including sea level rise, extreme weather events, droughts and more. All of this contributes to how businesses operate and the ways in which they should tackle sustainability, even on a smaller scale, to play their part. Sustainability is key and entrepreneur Stephen Troese, Jr., a sports fan is also dedicated to climate change. Because together it is achievable.
‘Insanely cheap energy’: how solar power continues to shock the world
In the year 2000, the International Energy Agency made a prediction that would come back to haunt it: by 2020, the world would have installed a grand total of 18 gigawatts of photovoltaic solar capacity. Seven years later, the forecast would be proven spectacularly wrong when roughly 18 gigawatts of solar capacity were installed in a single year alone.
Ever since the agency was founded in 1974 to measure the world’s energy systems and anticipate changes, the yearly World Energy Outlook has been a must-read document for policymakers the world over.
Over the last two decades, however, the IEA has consistently failed to see the massive growth in renewable energy coming. Not only has the organisation underestimated the take-up of solar and wind, but it has massively overstated the demand for coal and oil.
Would You Ever Consider Using Solar Energy in Your Home?
Solar energy is power that is taken from the radiation of the sun. It is something that can then be converted into a power that we can use, electricity or heat. As it is something that is so freely available, and with all of the technology that we can all make the use of, harnessing the power of solar energy is something that is becoming much more available to us all. But what are the benefits to using solar energy, particularly in the home? Here are some things to think about.
Back From the Brink: How Going Green Will Give You a Competitive Advantage After the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on many businesses all over the world. And instead of giving up, businesses are looking for ways to adapt to the new normal. This pandemic has also increased a sense of environmental sustainability among business owners. And in fact, many businesses have already put plans in place to balance both social and environmental issues as the pandemic disaster evolves. The following are some ways going green will give you competitive advantages after the pandemic.
A Swamp and 60 Feet
The eyes would be easy to miss, rising an inch or two above the brackish water like burls on a half-sunken log. And we would have, if our Floridian companions hadn’t pointed them out, because we’d been focused on a pink flamingo lawn ornament tucked in the nearby foliage. Besides the two vertical pupils, the rest of the alligator’s scaled, 6-foot-long body is hidden under a mat of vibrant green algae. It blinks and disappears beneath the surface without a ripple.
A submerged dinosaur is strange enough. But this is Florida, where 12-foot alligators wander golf courses and 9-foot snakes and finger-chomping, 200-pound turtles hide among the swampy forests. Earlier, I came across an armadillo, the only animal (besides humans) known to carry leprosy. In such a menagerie of scaly horrors, one gator is hardly noteworthy.
The strip of dirt under our tires, however, very much is: a steep, purpose-built mountain bike trail in the center of the flattest and lowest state in the Union.