Posted on 30 September 2009
Increasingly companies are looking to offset the impacts of air travel when implementing green business practices. However there are many factors that affect the level of your personal (or company) emissions. Here I outline the different factors that affect your level of emissions and experiment with four different air travel carbon calculators.
Tags: environmental impacts air travel, Green Business Practices
Posted on 27 September 2009
Almost every company makes mistakes when they try to establish a green business program. Often the responsibility for improving the environmental performance of the company is added to the existing workload of an employee simply because they have spare capacity. Here we look at how hiring a dedicated environmental officer to oversee the establishment of [...]
Tags: environmental officer, Green Business Program
Posted on 22 September 2009
Newsweek have just released their 2009 green rankings of the largest 500 companies in the United States. The overall green ranking is based on scores given for the companies’ environmental impacts, green policies and reputation. While not all companies are willing to provide their environmental data (70 of the top 100 did), the hope is [...]