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Sustainability Guide For Commercial Landscaping And Lawncare Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Sustainable Commercial Landscaping and Lawn Care. Lawncare and landscaping businesses that are eco-friendly and practice sustainability are realizing real benefits including cost savings, new customers, and sales growth. Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable.

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Sustainability Guide for Consulting Firms: Running An Eco Friendly Business

Green Business Bureau

Operating as a sustainable business comes with many advantages. Minimizing waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling and being more energy efficient will also lower your costs. You will also help the environment by reducing global warming, mitigating the waste of finite materials, and reducing pollution.

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How 10 key energy efficiency actions could save industry $437bn – report

Smart Energy International

According to the Energy Efficiency Movement, energy efficiency actions, such as the use of smart building energy management systems, switching to EV fleets and using heat pumps, can result in global cost savings of approximately $437 billion.

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Harnessing the power of tech on the path to net zero

Business Green

Partner Insight: Vodafone's Nicki Lyons shares key insights from the recent Vodafone Business UK Customer Sustainability Summit on how businesses can harness technology to reach their decarbonisation goals Climate change has the potential to seriously disrupt our lives. Instead, businesses must set ambitious time-limited targets.

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Tackling Scope 3 emissions: the key to keeping 1.5°C alive

Envirotec Magazine

Randeep Somel is VP, Global Head of Communications and Sustainability with technology firm Iron Mountain. This November, world leaders, climate activists, and business executives have been gathering in Sharm El-Sheikh for COP27, the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference. degrees Celsius. Putting scope 3 emissions in the spotlight.

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Net zero targets: How to manage the 'hot air' to limit global warming

Business Green

Scope 2 emissions come from purchased energy - such as the electricity the aluminium company buys from a power utility. The result is an open access database with industry specific energy and emission parameters that serve as key performance indicators for net-zero target setting and implementation.

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Methane release from UK shale gas site equivalent to 142 trans-Atlantic flights, says research group

Envirotec Magazine

tonnes of methane gas to atmosphere that was detected at a nearby monitoring station installed by researchers from The University of Manchester. Elevated methane (CH4) concentrations in the air were measured at an atmospheric monitoring station near the Preston New Road (PNR) shale gas site over a one-week period in January 2019.

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