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Tech Startup Sustainability Guide: Running An Eco-Friendly Business

Green Business Bureau

Being more energy-efficient, reducing waste – through recycling, reuse, and reducing regimes -, and curbing scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from the daily commute, all help your company save money. To be sustainable, startups need to be aware of the environmental impact of their business’s operations.

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Five Easy-To-Implement Green Business Practices

Green Business Bureau

In recent years, sustainable business practices have become an essential part of good business – and it is easier than you think to get started. The consumer market dictates the incorporation of eco-friendly policies into successful businesses of all sizes. BOOST YOUR OFFICE RECYCLING. INCREASE LIGHT EFFICIENCY.

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Restaurant Energy Efficiency: Areas to Target and Ways to Improve

Green Business Bureau

Restaurants require significant energy to operate and most owners who evaluate ways to improve their energy usage can uncover substantial cost savings. Just as important, improving restaurant energy efficiency ties into the larger mission of becoming a greener business overall. Air Conditioning. Appliances.

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How To Implement A Sustainability Plan: Executive Guide To Becoming A Sustainable Business – STEP 6

Green Business Bureau

The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability. The sixth step in your green business journey is to implement the plan you’ve created. Step 4: Engage your employees.

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Green Your Workplace With These Eco-Friendly Office Products and Supplies

Green Business Bureau

Your business needs a lot of stuff in order to run – paper, ink, computers, coffee, toilet paper, lightbulbs and the list goes on. But all of this stuff is made from resources of some kind, uses up energy and eventually winds up as waste. Here are some eco-friendly office products that you just can’t do without.

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Sip or guzzle? Here's how Google's data centres use water

Business Green

With a pledge to restore 120 per cent of the 'water it consumes' by 2030, Google is rethinking the approaches used to cool its massive data centres. On Monday, Google published some metrics it will use to benchmark that progress, focused predominantly on the data centres that drive its revenue, many of which rely on water to keep cool.

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Facebook sets aim to become 'water positive' by 2030

Business Green

Social media giant announces plans to focus on water restoration projects around the world in addition to in-house innovations to reduce and replenish its water usage. The company has also invested in onsite recycled water systems at some of its global offices including allowing its data centers to be cooled with outside air.