Welcome Marvin
Organisations wanting to achieve ISO 14001 will be pleased to learn that their journey can be made easier by the responsible application of Artificial Intelligence via Marvin our AI agent. The name co...
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Category: Work Wayback
Neutral Territory joins Natural Capital
To ensure our work continues at the pace our planet demands, we have joined the Natural Capital group to provide the resources needed to accelerate delivery and achieve more impact. For further inform...
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Entering the Bear Pit! Federation of Small Business make their thoughts known …
Engaging with the small business community is one of the crosses universities have to bear these days and so it was probably with a sense of trepidation that Matthew Taylor from UEA’s Adapt entered ...
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Green Finance Conference: Accessing Green Funding for SMEs
This was one of those events which looked good on paper but didn’t quite deliver. ‘Speed presenting’ (ten minute slots each) meant a lot of ground was covered but you suspect left the audien...
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Sparking a response
In returning the results of the audits back to the companies I waited with apprehension for some response to their carbon audit however no one questioned the results at all to my surprise. World...
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Facing Facebook
Facebook is not used much for contacting business and getting them involved, so isn’t ideal for us, however, let’s not knock it ‘till we’ve tried it! Updating a Facebook status is s...
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Does green mean poor?
An article about Newham having the lowest carbon footprint of any borough in the country revealed that the national average is 12.5 tonnes per person per annum. The good news is that Newham is 18 per...
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Getting LinkedIn
I am new to LinkedIn, so this is as much an experiment for me as it is for the LCD project! We have formed a LinkedIn group for those involved in the project to join, to further discuss matters. Howev...
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First tweets, now hoots too!
We are now using a piece of online software called ‘Hootsuite’ which allows us to manage all our social media in one place. The site has tabs with all our different social media profiles (Twitter,...
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What’s offputting about offsetting?
Talk to environmental professionals about offsetting and they usually reach for a metaphorical crucifix (or equivalent in other faiths). Of course it would be nice to take action to reduce emissions...
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Tweet tweet
Twitter seems to be the social media platform of choice for businesses who want to update people on what’s happening and get their voices heard, so this seemed perfect for our Low Carbon Deviants pr...
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Carbon log jam
The suspicion that the Suffolk Carbon Charter might prove a proverbial sledgehammer to crack SME nuts is perhaps most justified in its progress reporting device – the Carbon Log (very small...
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Why don’t companies use interns?
One of the things that always surprise me is why companies don’t make better use of bright young people. An especially useful vehicle for this is summer internships where you can pick up undergrad...
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Funding induced short termism
You don’t need to be Nigel Farage to question the European funding frameworks which underpin the delivery of schemes such as Low Carbon Champions. Cumbersome, complex and costly (anecdotal evidenc...
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LCD project update
The new Low Carbon Deviance site is based loosely on the Low Carbon Champion programme (LCC) run between 2010-2013 by Suffolk County Council. However due to cost of delivery it isn’t a sustainab...
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We like a good theory. See what you reckon to this one.
We are just looking at Suffolk SMEs for now but hopefully in the future this model of reducing small businesses carbon footprint could be scaled up and functioning all over the UK, the world even! But...
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Private Policy or Public Promise?
What is worth more? Which will actually be achieved within a acceptable time frame? A Private Policy or a Public Promise? After meeting with two very different companies today I have begun to consider...
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Grants to help you prepare for a changing market
Been searching for some grants so our cohort of businesses can fund the suggested work, one that looks very good but I hadn’t really considered is to help reduce water usage. The Grant is called Aqu...
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What a clever crowd you are
Using the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ is about utilising a diverse group of people, ‘the crowd’, to collectively make decisions and solve problems through ideas exchange. The internet has allowed fo...
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Keeping virtual
Discovered this website, which is designed so that the community helps you learn a language, by marking your assignments and allowing you to talk to people who speak the language you want to learn. It...
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