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Source: http://pixabay.com/en/industry-sunrise-clouds-fog-611668/ It’s no secret that climate change is a serious problem. Burning fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas releases carbon dioxide and triggers our climate change, but there are ways to offset that impact. This is called, becoming carbon neutral. Have you heard of Carbon Offsets?…

  After a cold winter, it’s easy to see how the global warming non-believers would use this year’s weather as an argument against the issue. There is so much information floating around about climate change that it makes it hard to understand what’s really happening. Image url: http://pixabay.com/en/ice-winter-cold-frozen-nature-570500/…

  Upcycling is a term that sprung to life in the 90’s, but hit the mainstream in the 2000’s. The practice of upcycling is, basically, taking something that’s no longer needed or wanted and, rather than disposing of it, transforming it into something new. Given the impact of waste on…

  We’ve shone the light on the rainforest floor to reveal the growing problem of deforestation. It’s no secret that the total global rainforest area is decreasing drastically, particularly in Central America and there are multiple factors contributing to this changing landscape including large and small scale architecture, logging and…

  Gone are the days of flip phones and dial up broadband. The 21st Century has seen a myriad of new and exciting technologies that a business of any size can take advantage of. Taking a look at how businesses communicate with their customers, there are some new (and not…

  Recycling alone does not protect the environment – in fact, relying on recycling is actually quite contradictory and detrimental to the environment. Many people think, “I recycle. I do my part. Good enough.” This is a naïve way of thinking and there is so much more that can be…

  Tip –When you have analysed, mitigated and reduced your carbon footprint, offsetting can be a useful way of going that last mile to become carbon neutral. Carbon offsetting programmes have taken a bit of a bashing in the last few years because their rapid rise to popularity attracted the…

  Tip – You can reduce the amount of pages you print by 30% by introducing a ‘follow me’ or ‘pull printing’ solution. The reason that these schemes can have such a dramatic impact on the amount of paper printed is that they prevent unwanted prints being made.

  Tip – done correctly an efficient office recycling scheme can result in zero being sent to landfill. #oneworldchange The waste we produce as a species is staggering. A feature of our capacity to produce and create ever more ‘stuff’ for us all to consume is the mountain…

  Tip – Measure of the carbon footprint of your business. #OneWorldChange Talk about environmental efficiency and carbon reduction is all a bit meaningless if you don’t have a measure of the carbon footprint of your business to put it all in context. Knowing the carbon footprint of…