Olive and Southampton Science Park are hosting a special ‘green jobs’ event on Monday 21st May.
The Climate Change Caravan UK tour will be stopping here at the Science Park on the Southampton leg of its tour. During it’s visit the organisers will be talking to and promoting businesses that show the potential for future growth in the green economy. The aim is to highlight how creating green jobs in the area can help solve both the economic and climate crisis. Continue reading
Acting swiftly could reduce or potentially avoid carbon tax!
Use this five step guide for practical ways to cut your organisation’s carbon emissions, improve energy efficiency, and reduce or eliminate the requirement to pay for carbon allowances under the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC). Continue reading
The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (England) Order 2012 (SI 2012/748)
The Cardiff Council Flat Holm Project, via Wikimedia Commons
This Order amends Schedule 2 of the 1995 Order in relation to permitted development rights for the installation of certain microgeneration equipment. This has the effect of reducing bureaucracy in the planning system and encouraging the uptake of microgeneration on non domestic premises by removing the planning application requirement. Continue reading
We’ve seen an increase in the demand for internal environmental auditing courses recently.
With a growing uptake of environmental management systems, namely ISO 14001, more and more companies are realising the benefits of creating an internal auditing team and keeping them trained so that their auditor skills up to date. Why is this important? Continue reading
Julo, via Wikimedia Commons
New candidate SVCHs for EU REACH Annex XIV
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SVCHs: substances of very high concern
REACH: Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals List.
ECHA: European Chemicals Agency
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Some interesting points to note on REACH – Notably point 3 if you are in the aerospace and defense or manufacturing industries: Continue reading
Have you thought about how you would go about running a staff awareness campaign for environmental or sustainability issues that affect your business?
Included below is one example of an awareness campaign project in which we helped our client solve their engagement and training challenges, plus the Green Ninja video as another source of inspiration. Continue reading
We sent Alice and William, two of our environmental management system (EMS) experts to help with and contribute to the revision of ISO 14001:2004. The Environmental Management Standard will be revised using feedback from these “consultations”, and is due to be released in 2013-2014.
Although the revision is not set to be released until next year, we do already know that Continue reading
Consider how you have approached training before, would your approach to sustainability and environmental training be any different? Have you looked into environmental awareness or sustainability training?
SMART funding has been extended – funded training for companies linked to and supporting the construction industry is now available until June 2012.
You can –
+ Attend one of our environmental and sustainability training courses for FREE
+ Attend an eligible course between now and 14th June 2012 Continue reading
According to a report published by Siemens “One in three of those responsible for energy management in UK businesses say that the issue is not being taken seriously by their organisation”. Continue reading