GREEN BUSINESS

Prepared by,Shiwani Agrawal

Contents:1.Introduction2.What is Green Business3.Understanding Green Business Practices for Business4.The Road to making your company green

What is Green Business ??????

Understanding … Green Business Practices For businesses

Part 1 : Climate Change, Whose responsibility is it ?

Our world is changing

Yes we are responsible for this !

The Small Businesses make up 60 %

of all the Businesses

“Business is the only mechanism powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environment and social degradation”

Myth:What is good

for the environment is

not good for the business

Part 2 : Business Impact of turning ‘green’

Green business practices can help you..1. Save money The experience of businesses that have already

adopted environmentally sustainable working practices is that energy efficiency can lead to significant cost savings, which means your business can become leaner and more efficient.

2. Win New BusinessThere is growing pressure from society, government and customers

for businesses to act in an environmentally responsible way. The attitudes and expectations of consumers are changing rapidly and businesses need to be able to adapt quickly.

3.Enhance ReputationCustomers and the public increasingly demand that businesses behave in an environmentally ethical way. Those that fail to meet these expectations risk causing damage to their brand. In turn this can harm a company’s ability to win customers and attract and retain the best employees.

4. Make you more efficient: The same technologies that help reduce your carbon footprint can at the same time result in significant efficiency gains. Allowing employees the flexibility to work from home not only reduces the amount of travel they do, thereby cutting carbon emissions, but research shows it also makes employees around 20 per cent more productive.

Part 3 : What does it mean to be a Sustainable Business ?

Work smarter and reduce travel

Reuse&Recycle

Improve energy efficiency

Part 4: The Road to making your company green

Adopt Flexible work timing

Work at home

Reduce Travel

Voice over pc

E-learning & E-Training

Wi-fiat coffee shops

Web conferencing and meeting Usage of web conferencing and web meeting will help reduce travel and also help the environment.

Electronic Signatures Embrace electronic signatures technologies, for saving of paper as well as easy and faster review and signature

Use Less Packaging Or Opt for Sustainable Packaging

Print on both sides If you do have to print, print on both sides of the paper to reduce paper usage.

Recycle paper as much as possible as well as try to use reduced packaging.

Online Marketing Use online marketing, especially on social networking sites to provide maximum coverage with minimum environmental impact.

Etc.,,..,,

Switch Off Computers and Laptops

Adopt Energy Saving with the Heating and Cooling systems

Switch to energy efficient Lighting

Switch to green Materials

Did you know ? Only in the UK 70 Million Sq Meters of Office Space is unnecessarily lit Equal to 8750 Football fields

Leaving office lights on all night Wastes enough energy to heat water for 1000 … cups of tea.

A copier left on over night uses enough power to produce 1500 ….. Copies.

Leaving a PC on all night uses up enough energy to Microwave 6 dinners…

Switching off Non Essential equipment Saves enough energy to Run a small car for 35Miles. …

How to make it all of this a reality ?

a recap.

Use conferencing instead of travelling

Its time to do something Its not just a planet ….

......Its Home.

Thank you…