Green Minded
"Climate change threatens the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and use of land and the environment" Stern report 2006
Make a difference, save money, be one step ahead - be Green Minded.
Welcome to Green Minded - help for your business or organisation to tackle climate change, be more energy efficient, save water, reduce waste, choose ethical products, and make real changes to meet the challenges of the future. Green Minded is run on a social enterprise model, allowing a range of organisations to lower their environmental impact including offering one day free to the third sector for every five days work Green Minded carries out.
Whether you need to write a policy and action plans, embed sustainability in your business and performance planning, train staff to be more environmentally aware, or manage related projects, we can help. See our testimonials page to find out what our clients think of our service.
Being green minded can help:
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save your business money;
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differentiate you from your competition;
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improve recruitment and retention;
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help you win contracts and grants, and;
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prepare you for changing government regulation.
If you would like an obligation-free discussion, please contact us.
Karen Gardham of Green Minded has had extensive experience of supporting organisations to save money and improve their sustainability. Her award-winning policies and awareness-raising programmes at Brighton & Hove City Council helped Brighton & Hove become the most sustainable city in Britain in 2007 (Forum for the Future, 2007). She can help you develop a sustainability or environmental policy, train staff to save resources, manage projects, implement actions, or put in place measures to improve the resource efficiency of your workplace.
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NEWS....
** Green Up is a new guide for community groups on how to work with their local authority on environmental and sustainability issues. **
** The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) is offering grants of up £500 to help small companies make changes to their premises to cut their energy costs. Each company that applies will be loaned a simple energy monitor, provided with a 'walk round checklist', 'switch off' stickers and posters and the application form.
If your business has an energy spend of between £1500 and £30,000 contact Business Link on 0845 600 9006 to find out how to cut your bills and your carbon footprint.**
** Are you working on an environmental policy or actions within your organisation, and sometimes feel like you’re a lone voice? Looking for support from colleagues in other organisations who are in the same position? Having great successes despite the credit crunch and want to share best practice?
Green Minded have just set up an e-group for individuals within organisations to communicate via email, to share tips, ideas, successes and frustrations in their attempt to green their organisation. If you are working on environmental issues within your organisation and would like to communicate with fellow green minded people, contact Karen, and let her know what your role in your organisation is, and if you have an environmental policy yet. This group is open to those in the public, private, community and more-than-profit sectors – there are issues around creating organisational change that cut across all sectors, and this is an opportunity to share those. Happy greening! **
** The Environment Agency have polled 1,000 business leaders and found that over half do not have an environmental or sustainability policy. Do you? - if so, let us know the benefits you have gained from it. If not, let us know why this has not been a priority for you **
** Taster sessions - we offer a session with staff and management to identify key areas of impact within your organisation. If you go on to book a package with us, this session is free **
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