Business Tips from BT: Small businesses can play a major role in fighting climate change
Becoming a more environmentally-friendly business isn’t just an ethical choice, it can also help your business get ahead. The experience of businesses that have already adopted environmentally sustainable working practices is that energy efficiency can lead to significant cost savings. The same technologies that help reduce your carbon footprint can at the same time result in significant efficiency gains. In addition, companies are increasingly being asked to prove their green credentials when pitching or tendering for business.
As small businesses represent 41.7 per cent of UK employment, they are just as important in tackling climate change as their larger corporate counterparts. With this in mind, BT Business has launched an “Understanding Green Business Practices” guide to help SMEs get to grips with ‘going green’.
By adopting the five simple actions outlined in the practical guide, SMEs could collectively save millions of tonnes of carbon emissions annually and play an integral part in addressing climate change. It illustrates how the use of IT and communications technology can not only enable SMEs to act in a more sustainable way, but will also provide business benefits from reduced costs, an enhanced reputation with customers, to greater productivity among employees.
Businesses can download a copy of the guide on the website.
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December 7th, 2007 at 6:10 am
I’m going to what’d I call, a New Year’s Resolution conference in January named Energy Camp in SF. Its for lazy bums like me walk by rooms with lights left on all day long in an office that isn’t even being used and I need a bit of a reality check. If you’re in the SF area January 10 of ‘08, check out this free boot camp and we’ll have a coffee. http://www.openeco.org/energycamp — if I can get my lazy butt there, you should be able to flick off a few switches too!