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10-01-2012
CLIMATE WEEK 12th to 18th MARCH 2012
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| Britain's Biggest Climate Change Campaign. It culminates in thousands of events and activities, planned by organisations from every part of society. Showcasing real, practical ways to combat climate change, it aims to renew our ambition to create a more sustainable, low-carbon future. |
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19-12-2011
UP TO 75% OFF ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING POINTS FOR COMPANIES IN THE EAST OF ENGLAND
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| For companies seeking to save money on their fuel and fleet costs and improve their impact on the environment, a new grant scheme is available in the East of England. |
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15-11-2011
LOW CARBON CHAMPIONS
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| Low Carbon Champions is a project to support businesses in Suffolk in driving down their use of carbon, increasing their resource efficiency and saving energy - material, time and effort. The project will support 85 businesses in total. |
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15-11-2011
SABRE PROVIDES SUPPORT AND ADVICE
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| SABRE is offering SMEs & SEs in Suffolk the opportunity to discover their potential to generate renewable energy by providing them with independent and impartial support and advice on investment opportunities created by Feed-in Tariffs and the Renewable Heat Incentive. |
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12-11-2011
THE WASTE HIERARCHY
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| Regulation 12 of the The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 says that businesses who import, produce, collect, transport, recover or dispose of waste, or who operate as dealers and brokers, must take all reasonable measures to apply the waste hierarchy when the waste is transferred |
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10-10-2011
AGENCY WORKERS REGULATIONS
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| The legislation came into force on 1 October 2011, giving agency workers the entitlement to the same basic employment and working conditions as if they had been recruited directly, if and when they complete a qualifying period of 12 weeks in the same job. |
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19-08-2011
HOW REUSING IT CAN HELP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY AND E-WASTE
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| With the increasing amount of e-waste legislation that companies must comply with combined with the increased importance placed by customers on sustainable business, it is important that companies carefully consider how they dispose of unwanted IT equipment. |
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15-08-2011
HEALTH AND SAFETY MADE SIMPLE
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| If you think health and safety has to be complicated - it doesn't. A new online resource, Health and safety made simple will make it easier for you to comply with the law and manage health and safety in your business. |
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24-05-2011
REDUCING NOISE IN OFFICES
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| Noise in offices - it's annoying, right? But it's not just the disruption it causes that makes noise an issue for UK businesses. In fact, excessive noise levels can damage productivity and affect our health and wellbeing - bad news for business! |
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24-05-2011
THE PROS AND CONS OF A GREEN BUSINESS
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| green24 discusses the pros and cons of a green business, helping you to begin to plan your business transformation. Going green is the way of the future for business, and the sooner the better. |
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08-04-2011
SAYING SORRY
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| Complaint handling is a skill which companies ignore at their peril. The most fundamental mistake is to seek to cover up an error or just to ignore it and hope it goes away. Far better to under-promise and over-deliver rather than the other way round. |
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06-04-2011
LONDON CHURCHES TO GO CARBON NEUTRAL THROUGH CLIMATE ACTION PLANS
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| The Church of England Diocese of London is pleased to announce that it is working to lower churches' energy use and carbon footprint, as part of the Church of England's national Shrinking the Footprint campaign. |
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04-04-2011
TOOLS TO SUPPORT CARBON REPORTING BECOME MORE SOPHISTICATED
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| Many CSR teams spend at least 50% of their time gathering data and analysing it for use in different reports. Now the focus is gradually moving off simply collecting data and onto benchmarking against the marketplace and using the data to good effect internally. |
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28-02-2011
THE LOW CARBON KEEP PROGRAM
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| As spending cuts start to take effect and costs rise it is a difficult time for businesses. As some streams of funding for business are reduced or lost, many remain, amongst them a package called the Low Carbon KEEP Programme. |
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11-02-2011
CHANGES TO RETIREMENT AGE AND COMPENSATION FIGURES
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| Changes to the statutory default retirement age (DRA) and the latest changes in figures relating to compensation. Relevant to many businesses, we discusses what these changes are and how these changes may affect you. |
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08-02-2011
MOST COMMON EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS - SUMMARY
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| Employment Law - claims, compensation and time limits from 1st February 2011 |
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04-02-2011
REDUCE, REDUCE, REDUCE...THEN OFFSET
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| Carbon Retirement is an offsetting firm, so you might be forgiven for thinking we'd be in favour of offsetting as a primary component of an environmental strategy. Well, we're not.....
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03-02-2011
SMART WORKING DOESN'T MEAN LONG WORKING
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| The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has been under fire for telling his Civil Servants not to put any non-urgent business in his red box after 3pm in the afternoon. He has in fact set a thoroughly good example to businesses up and down the country. |
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31-01-2011
EMPLOYERS CHARTER
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| As an employer as long as you act fairly and reasonably, you are entitled to............. |
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13-01-2011
WHAT DOES CARBON NEUTRAL MEAN?
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| Carbon neutral products and services are increasingly common: from t-shirts to carpet tiles to beer, if you want it carbon neutral its yours. But what does the term actually mean, and why are organisations so keen to go carbon neutral? |
