Develop your own Environment Policy and identify an environment champion. Ensure the environment is considered during planning process and debrief.
- Prepare an Environment Policy (the environmental standards ISO14001 and BS8555 can help) and obtain sign off from senior management.
- Measure your organisations impacts on the environment (CO2 emissions, water, waste) and identify targets and actions to reduce impacts.
- Identify an environmental champion in your organisation who has responsibility for implementing the action plan.
- Review performance against targets.
- Ask for suppliers’ Environment Policy.
- Ask for information on suppliers’ ethical credentials.
- Work with suppliers to reduce environmental impacts.
- Include environmental and sustainability considerations in project planning – look at potential issues, and opportunities from the outset.
Please note that we are not endorsing, favouring or recommending these companies but are providing them for your information only. You should investigate each company’s environmental policy and practices before engaging their services. Please send any suggestions for additions or deletions to this list to greenupdates@bskyb.com
OTHER RESOURCES
THE CARBON TRUST
GREEN FUTURES
ETHICAL CORPORATION
ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SERVICES
GREEN TV
WE ARE WHAT WE DO
DO THE GREEN THING
NEW CONSUMER MAGAZINE
ETHICAL CONSUMER MAGAZINE
NATURAL COLLECTION
ETHICAL SUPERSTORE
JUNKK
ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING
GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE
GREEN HOUSE GAS PROTOCOL
DEFRA GHG REPORTING GUIDELINES
BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY CR & ENVIRONMENT INDICES
