Automatic benefits?

Author: Lucie Ponting

Installing automatic meter reading will do more than help an organisation achieve a high position in the forthcoming CRC league...

Standard practice

Author: Lucie Ponting

The CRC league table will reward organisations that have achieved the Carbon Trust Standard. Lucie Ponting finds out what it...

Accounting for carbon

Author: Lucie Ponting

Specialist software is emerging that can help organisations manage their carbon emissions.
Lucie Ponting takes a look...

Total business focus

Author: Lucie Ponting

Environmental auditing can be highly rewarding, argues Lucie Ponting.

Matchmaking for sustainability

Author: Lucie Ponting

Lucie Ponting reports on the programme that has helped divert over three million tonnes of business waste from landfill

Share and compare

Author: Lucie Ponting

Benchmarking means different things to different people. But in its simplest form, it is about improving ourselves by learning from others. By comparing activities and aspects of performance with those of similar businesses or service providers, benchmarking enables an organisation to identify performance gaps and seek out new ideas, as well as providing the momentum necessary to drive improvements.

Driving supply chain sustainability

Author: Lucie Ponting

A pioneering initiative involving Coventry City Council and the automotive sector in the West Midlands to raise environmental awareness among small and medium-sized suppliers and encourage them to seek ISO 14001 accreditation has been very successful. Lucie Ponting reports

Sustainability in local government

Author: Lucie Ponting

We look at how a sustainability standard for local authorities aims to help put sustainable development at the heart of council planning

Delivering sustainability in Cheltenham

Author: Lucie Ponting

EiB 155 examined the sustainability standard that helps put sustainable development at the heart of council planning. We now look at how Cheltenham Borough Council is forging its own sustainable development strategy

Can you really be carbon-neutral?

Author: Lucie Ponting

Hardly a day goes by without another high-profile organisation pledging to go carbon-neutral. HSBC, BSkyB, Marks & Spencer and Royal & SunAlliance are just some of the UK companies that have pledged to, or have, become carbon-neutral. Lucie Ponting investigates

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