green business practices

Understanding …

Green Business Practices For businesses

Part 1 : Climate Change, Whose responsibility is it ?

Our World is Changing ….

Yes We are Responsible for it !

But, Small and Medium Businesses Ignore this

“Its nothing personal,

Its just business”

The Small Businesses make up

of all the Businesses

60 %

“Business is the only mechanism powerful enough

to produce the changes necessary to reverse global

environment and social degradation”

- Paul Hawken

Part 2 : Business Impact of turning ‘green’

Green Practices can Help you …

Save Money

The experience of businesses that have already adopted

environmentally sustainable working practices is that

energy efficiency can lead to significant cost savings,

which means your business can become leaner and more

efficient.


Win new Business

There is growing pressure from society, government and

customers for businesses to act in an environmentally

responsible way. The attitudes and expectations of

consumers are changing rapidly and businesses need to

be able to adapt quickly.


Enhance Reputation

Customers and the public increasingly demand that

businesses behave in an environmentally ethical way.

Those that fail to meet these expectations risk causing

damage to their brand. In turn this can harm a

company’s ability to win customers and attract and

retain the best employees.


Make you more Efficient

The same technologies that help reduce your carbon footprint

can at the same time result in significant efficiency gains.

Allowing employees the flexibility to work from home not

only reduces the amount of travel they do, thereby cutting

carbon emissions, but research shows it also makes employees

around 20 per cent more productive.

Part 3 : What does it mean to be a Sustainable Business ?

Work Smarter and Reduce Travel

Recycle and Reduce consumption of materials

Improve Energy Efficiency

Sustainable Sourcing

Part 4: The Road to making your company green

Step 1 Measure your Carbon Footprint

If you cannot measure it, You cannot improve it !

Numerous tools available online …

Reduce congestion on the roads and in effect reduce pollution.

Step 2 Adopt Flexible work timing

Increase in productivity gain

Increase in Motivation

Improved productivity

Reduce office space

Reduce Travel

Reduce Carbon Footprint

Reduce Energy

Step 3 Adopt new Technologies

Voice over IP

Voice over IP Single cabling for Data and

Telephone applications, reducing materials used

and power required.

Remote Maintenance

IP Networks provide ability for remote

maintenance of voice and telephone systems.

Reducing travel for maintenance personnel.

E-Training and E- Learning

Reducing the need for paper and in turn the

requirement for employees or trainers to travel

to or from the training centers.

Wi-fi at coffee shops

Encourage employees to use wi-fi at coffee

shops to connect to the office network while on

meeting tours.

Smart Phone Technology

Encourage employees to use smart phone

technologies to help them work out of the

office and not have to be present at the office

everyday.

Web conferencing and meeting

Usage of web conferencing and web meeting

will help reduce travel and also help the

environment.

Air Travel Substitution

Encourage employees to adopt as much land

transport as possible in order to reduce high

altitude Carbon emission.

Virtual filing and Cloud computing

Whether its Google or Microsoft, use Cloud Computing to maximize server

utilization and save space.

Electronic Signatures

Embrace electronic signatures technologies, for

saving of paper as well as easy and faster

review and signature.

Use Less Packaging

Or Opt for

Sustainable Packaging

Print on both sides

If you do have to print, print on both sides of

the paper to reduce paper usage.

Recycle

Recycle paper as much as possible as well as

try to use reduced packaging.

Online Marketing

Use online marketing, especially on social

networking sites to provide maximum coverage

with minimum environmental impact.

Green IT

Invest in Green IT solutions, the energy

efficiency of the average sever has gone up 10

times in the last 5 years.

Step 4 Office Environment

Buildings Account for

Of energy usage.

70 %

Switch Off Computers and Laptops

Switch to energy efficient Lighting

Adopt Energy Saving with the Heating and Cooling systems

Step 5 Material Sourcing

Switch to green Materials

Source Low Carbon Footprint products

Choose Greener Suppliers

Did you know ?

Only in the UK 70 Million Sq Meters of Office Space is unnecessarily lit

Equal to 8750 Football fields

Accounting to more than £350 Million

Leaving office lights on all night

Wastes enough energy to heat water for

1000 … cups of tea.

A copier left on over night uses enough power to produce

1500 ….. Copies.

Leaving a PC on all night uses up

enough energy to…

Microwave

6dinners

Switching off Non Essential equipment

Saves enough energy to …

Run a small car for

35 Miles.

How to make it all of this a reality ?

a recap.

Use conferencing instead of travelling.

If every Dubai company were to use conferencing

small businesses could save

1,700,000tonnes of

Adopt flexible work timing

1 person in every company ….

1 day in a week ….

Work from home in Dubai ….

Could save

516 Million kgs of CO2

Shut down computers and other

electrical kit at the end of the day

Could save enough energy for

26,000,000 Dinners

Use recycled stationery and save paper

1 tonne of recycled paper = 32,000 liters of water

Reduce Unnecessary travel and

use mobile communication technology

Every employee in Dubai, reduces

2 working days of travel a year

we could save …

1,000,000 tonnes of CO2

Its time to do something

Its not just a planet ….

Its Home.

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