I put together this document with an aim to instill an environmentally friendly attitude within the workplace to encourage conscious consumption.
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Tiffany Bloomer of Aventis Systems, Inc. discusses the benefits of Going Green with Refurbished IT Equipment. (Slide deck from TAG Webinar 04/12/11)
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Tiffany Bloomer of Aventis Systems, Inc. discusses the benefits of Going Green with Refurbished IT Equipment. (Slide deck from TAG Webinar 04/12/11)
www.aventissystems.com
Benefits of Renewable Energy: How Your Business Can Benefit From Alternative ...DevinWright11
Wondering what the benefits of renewable energy are for your business? Take a look at these top ways your business can benefit from alternative energy sources.
Driving towards a more sustainable future – mg indiaMGMotor1
As the calendar flips open to April 22, people worldwide can be seen observing Earth Day, an event that attempts to create awareness around issues affecting the future of our planet. Each year Earth Day beckons us to be better versions of ourselves, encouraging individuals and businesses to steer the conversation towards sustainability initiatives. However, such endeavours cannot be a one-off activity undertaken in April and abandoned during the rest of the year.
The presentation is based on a minibook I wrote for ICAEW on using IT to green the organisation, not just IT itself.
It was presented as a webinar on October 15 2009
Building for the Future: Energy Efficient Technologies Today and Tomorrow, St...Alliance To Save Energy
Presentation from the Alliance to Save Energy's 2010 Great Energy Efficiency Day, which took place on March 10, 2010 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.
A sustainable journey - from sustainability and eco design to circularityStephan Clambaneva
This short presentation takes you through my personal journey towards sustainability.
The question on many peoples mind these days is with all this focus on environmental programs greening of almost everything around us…. However it is phrased is….. Can I be green and still be lean? If I try to become more green, will my bottom line stay out of the red?
I refer to books like:
Can I go from Green to Gold?? The Co-author Andrew Winston Thomas Friedmans book called Hot Flat and Crowded
Most past initiatives have been focused on creating restrictive norms aimed at manufacturers.
REACH, RoHS, WEEE, ELV, EuP…all EU normsChina RoHS, California RoHS, Korea RoHS
California Prop 65 & Green Chemistry Initiative
They focus on laggards rather than leaders
This resulted in bad consumer information
Behaviors have changed
The Market rules are now getting stronger than regulations
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a data assessment process which measures the environmental impact of a product along each step from “Raw Material Extraction” to a product’s “End-of-Life” (i.e., Recycling, ReUse, or Disposal).
Both the manufacturing process impacts and the transportation impacts to the environment are assessed at each of the many manufacturing phases along the way.
I take you through certain green strategies that create green from green!
Green Web Host does matter to us in this buck-driven
lifestyle. The need for having mother nature in mind when growing and making money.
>>Go for Green Web Hosting>>
bit.ly/3iVbBk2
From global networks and large-scale projects to local, collective actions in communities, what creates a better world? As human development progresses, we must assess our practices and technologies — our holistic impact on the world around us. Examine global profiles of low-carbon, green, just economies, and integrate these lessons into your own communities.
Benefits of Renewable Energy: How Your Business Can Benefit From Alternative ...DevinWright11
Wondering what the benefits of renewable energy are for your business? Take a look at these top ways your business can benefit from alternative energy sources.
Driving towards a more sustainable future – mg indiaMGMotor1
As the calendar flips open to April 22, people worldwide can be seen observing Earth Day, an event that attempts to create awareness around issues affecting the future of our planet. Each year Earth Day beckons us to be better versions of ourselves, encouraging individuals and businesses to steer the conversation towards sustainability initiatives. However, such endeavours cannot be a one-off activity undertaken in April and abandoned during the rest of the year.
The presentation is based on a minibook I wrote for ICAEW on using IT to green the organisation, not just IT itself.
It was presented as a webinar on October 15 2009
Building for the Future: Energy Efficient Technologies Today and Tomorrow, St...Alliance To Save Energy
Presentation from the Alliance to Save Energy's 2010 Great Energy Efficiency Day, which took place on March 10, 2010 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.
A sustainable journey - from sustainability and eco design to circularityStephan Clambaneva
This short presentation takes you through my personal journey towards sustainability.
The question on many peoples mind these days is with all this focus on environmental programs greening of almost everything around us…. However it is phrased is….. Can I be green and still be lean? If I try to become more green, will my bottom line stay out of the red?
I refer to books like:
Can I go from Green to Gold?? The Co-author Andrew Winston Thomas Friedmans book called Hot Flat and Crowded
Most past initiatives have been focused on creating restrictive norms aimed at manufacturers.
REACH, RoHS, WEEE, ELV, EuP…all EU normsChina RoHS, California RoHS, Korea RoHS
California Prop 65 & Green Chemistry Initiative
They focus on laggards rather than leaders
This resulted in bad consumer information
Behaviors have changed
The Market rules are now getting stronger than regulations
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a data assessment process which measures the environmental impact of a product along each step from “Raw Material Extraction” to a product’s “End-of-Life” (i.e., Recycling, ReUse, or Disposal).
Both the manufacturing process impacts and the transportation impacts to the environment are assessed at each of the many manufacturing phases along the way.
I take you through certain green strategies that create green from green!
Green Web Host does matter to us in this buck-driven
lifestyle. The need for having mother nature in mind when growing and making money.
>>Go for Green Web Hosting>>
bit.ly/3iVbBk2
From global networks and large-scale projects to local, collective actions in communities, what creates a better world? As human development progresses, we must assess our practices and technologies — our holistic impact on the world around us. Examine global profiles of low-carbon, green, just economies, and integrate these lessons into your own communities.
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Yes, email marketing still works even in the age of social media. And it works best with these tips so you you building relationships instead of push others away.
More tips at www.LousiaChan.com or check out my other presentations here.
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Pradip's childbooks and apps illustration 2015Freelancer
See near 45 fine quality illustrations exclusively for children Boos and apps. Book cover, comics, graphic novel, cartoon, caricature, and many more kinds of works are here. Mail me - pradiparts@gmail.com, 8697670906
Mortgage Fraud: A Description and Community Research ResultsAndy Carswell
The following presentation highlights a white-collar crime activity that has flourished within American neighborhoods since the late 1990s and early 2000s. The slide show not only provides a description of mortgage fraud, but also highlights some of the academic research findings by the author over the past five years.
Pull Factors As a Way of Determining Retail Strength Andy Carswell
This presentation, made in late 2009, highlights the various industry "pull factors" that existed in metro Atlanta counties given Census and retail sales data. The presentation was made before the Atlanta Regional Commission in downtown Atlanta.
3Degrees\'s in-house marketing and communications team works with our partners to help them communicate their commitment to taking action on climate change.
Sustainable Times Issue 4.
As the British Council of Offices recommends raising working temperatures from 22 to 24 degrees centigrade. On pages 14 and 15 we publish a few tips on how to stay cool when the mercury rises.
Sustainable Times Issue 7
According to Kyocera’s latest Sustainability survey, office
workers printed 40% fewer pages last year – the first fall
since the survey began in 2007. This is impressive, but not
unexpected: indeed, it’s more surprising that this is the first time a fall has been registered.
Green Business practices, for small and medium businesses. Lets hope some companies at least follow it, and if they do we will be able to save our planet.
5 min guide to sustainability: Go green - Save money and the planetAnders Lindgren
Going Green – is it just “greenwashing”? Do organizations prefer to just talk about being green rather than really living green? Let’s be pragmatic. The majority of companies do not embrace Green livingprimarily for ideal reasons. It has always been about cost savings. In the form of reduced expenditures or efficiency gains. Nothing wrong with that approach. Actually it’s the core idea of sustainable development. Saving money and the environment at the same time.
A proposal for an advertising agency to consider how to differentiate itself in the market, set a standard in environmental awareness and conservation.
Here are some blobs for anyone working on their own brand of whatever it may be. While I believe brands are increasingly at the mercy of the audience or community, sometimes the old rules still apply.
A pro-bono document on behalf of a man who is single-handedly running recycling collections with his old van in Antigua for grassroots initiative Zero Waste Antigua and Rubber Duck recycling: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rubber-Duck-Recycling
Recently on my visit to meet the remainder of my team in San Fransisco, I presented an update on the digital landscape in Australia. It was a brilliant exercise and a great opportunity for everyone to share their thoughts, qualms and questions on the subject.
Poor Rich People - Changing the perceptions of givingJessica Brookes
This is a communications idea that looks at the challenge of perception and value when it comes to giving and spending. I hope it can inspire and if you'd like to be a part of bringing it to life - please get in touch.
Jessica.m.brookes@gmail.com
Welcome to the Program Your Destiny course. In this course, we will be learning the technology of personal transformation, neuroassociative conditioning (NAC) as pioneered by Tony Robbins. NAC is used to deprogram negative neuroassociations that are causing approach avoidance and instead reprogram yourself with positive neuroassociations that lead to being approach automatic. In doing so, you change your destiny, moving towards unlocking the hypersocial self within, the true self free from fear and operating from a place of personal power and love.
https://bit.ly/BabeSideDoll4u Babeside is a company that specializes in creating handcrafted reborn dolls. These dolls are designed to be incredibly lifelike, with realistic skin tones and hair, and they have become increasingly popular among collectors and those who use them for therapeutic purposes. At Babeside, we believe that our reborn dolls can provide comfort and healing to anyone who needs it.
The Healing Power of Babeside's Handcrafted Creations
Our reborn dolls are more than just beautiful pieces of art - they can also help alleviate stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions. Studies have shown that holding or cuddling a soft object like a stuffed animal or a reborn doll can release oxytocin, which is often referred to as the "love hormone." This hormone helps us feel calm and relaxed, reducing feelings of stress and anxiety.
In addition to their physical benefits, reborn dolls can also offer emotional support. For many people, having something to care for and nurture can bring a sense of purpose and fulfillment. Reborn dolls can also serve as a reminder of happy memories or loved ones who have passed away.
3. Deforestation… Despite conservation efforts, deforestation continues at an alarming rate – 13 million hectares per year, or 36 football fields a minute. It generates almost 20 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and halting forest loss has been identified as one of the most cost-effective ways to keep the world out of the danger zone of runaway climate change. Deforestation causes up to a fifth of current greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. Ten countries are responsible for 87 per cent of global deforestation.
4. Global Warming… Human-made CO2 is responsible for the vast majority of the warming. Concentrations of CO2in the atmosphere are now almost 40 per cent above those of 200 years ago and emissions to the atmosphere have been rising by more than 2 per cent a year since 2000. This extra greenhouse gas stems overwhelmingly from humans burning fossil fuels and destroying forests, both of which are made of carbon. It would contradict 100 years of physics if this CO2 were not warming the planet.
5. Footprints in Australia… The planet can regenerate 2.1 global hectares per person annually… Australia’s ecological footprint according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2008 was 7.8 global hectares per person. The ecological footprint measures the area of of biological productive land and sea required to produce the resources we use and to consume our waste. This is nearly three times the average global footprint!
7. You could lay out an environmental vision for dealing with global environmental issues in order to minimise your ecological footprint and maximise efficiency. The aim should be to support the creation of a prosperous, low-carbon business to inspire environmental innovation for society, in collaboration with customers, partner agencies and anyone who wants to know.
8. Why would youwant to do this? Take a leadership position on the issue of climate change - creating value for the business and thought leadership Have a competitive edge over other agencies that are not prepared for climate change. Risk management to help the company's bottom line. Better-prepare for a regulated carbon environment. Its going to happen. Communicate and promote our positive climate change action to key internal and external stakeholders. Reduce costs, energy prices are highly likely to continue to rise.
10. The Office… Paper products make up 33 percent of the solid waste of cities and towns… Use email instead of paper. Print and copy on both sides of the paper. Buy recycled paper certified by the Forestry Stewardship Council. Recycle paper. Print black and white. Office Maintenance… Discuss with cleaners use of environmentally friendly cleaning supplies and detergents. Report and repair water drips and leaks immediately. Use Energy Saving Lighting. Install displacement toilet dams in toilet reservoirs. Purchase refillable office products (cartridges, pens, etc.)
11. Energy saving… Power… Invest in a wireless energy meter so we can visualise the impact we’re making. Unplug standby appliances from the walls and turn off equipment when it's not being used. Switch to a "green" hosting service for our web sites and get sites certified and offset via CO2stats.com. Desktops set to most efficient power settings (sleep mode, no screen saver etc). Consider moving to Green power, possible option to “fix” energy spending and invest any energy savings into green power
12. Getting to & from work… The transport sector is one of the fastest growing emissions sectors in Australia… Lift share; the opportunity to share rides should always be available. Allow bike storage. Reward those who walk/cycle to work. Offset all business flights.
13. Don’t be a mug… Coffee… An initiative whereby each have a thermos mug which can be used instead of the paper cup. 65% of plastic drink bottles end up in landfills… Investment in stainless steel refillable water bottles for each person. It takes 40 litres of water to produce a take away cup of coffee… DON’T BE A MUG
14. Eat your greens… Think about the food we eat… Eating less meat is one of the most useful things you can do to help the environment. According to a report by the Australian Greenhouse Office, the methane produced by Australia's cattle and sheep has more impact than the emissions from all coal-fired power stations in Australia. Monday is Veggie Day in the office. Encourage food and recipe sharing.
15. Staff commitment Each staff member commits to reducing their own personal carbon footprint. Measurements of our ecological footprint taken by using the Footprint Calculator which we revisit and compare end of 2010.
17. Measurement… Look at current electricity, water, gas and direct emissions data to measure your carbon footprint and look at direct and indirect emissions. Using this information design performance metrics and models to provide a baseline for ongoing measurement, transparency and benchmarking. Aim for efficiencies over the next 12months.Review projects and successes and set new plans.
18. Governance… Once everyone is happy to commit to the policies, the program will be consistently managed by every individual within thecompany. This is something everyone should take responsibility for (although it helps if there’s someone who can crack the whip where necessary) CEO sponsorship is essential.
Paper products make up 33 percent of the solid waste of cities and towns. By recycling paper, you can keep it from taking up space in a landfill. Recycling paper can also dramatically reduce the number of trees that need to be harvested for paper products. By cutting down and processing fewer trees, and reducing the need for new landfills and equipment, recycling paper saves energy.
It takes 40 litres of water to produce a take away cup of coffee. That’s just the cup – not the coffee or even the lid. If you include these too, the total is 250 litres!! To make things worse, over four hundred million of these non-recyclable coffee cups are sent to landfill each year in Australia. So each seemingly innocent cup of take away coffee you buy has an extremely negative impact on the environment. 118,000 tonnes of plastic drink containers manufactured each year