Green Business
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How sustainable is your office?
Jennifer Levasseur | October 10, 2011
After feedback from our customers about not knowing where to focus their attention when moving to a more sustainable business, we decided to enter into an alliance with GreenBizCheck.
Our commercial relationship gives Corporate Express customers FREE access to a tool that lets you see how sustainable your office is at this point in time. -
Corporate Express challenges Aussie businesses to go green
Jennifer Levasseur | August 23, 2011
When it comes to the environment, everyone can make a difference. No matter how big or small the steps you take it all counts and at Corporate Express we want to help.
Corporate Express’ Go Green Guide – for a Greener Workspace aims to encourage and facilitate sustainable procurement for Australian businesses. The guide includes tangible advice and simple ‘how to’ steps for businesses of all sizes, as well as almost 1,500 EarthSaver -classified products to help businesses make the right purchasing choices.
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Have your say: energy efficiency standards
Helen Hull | August 1, 2011Would you like to be involved in the development of government policy?
The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency is coordinating consultation on the draft Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Bill 2011 (GEM) and invites written submissions regarding the GEMS consultation paper by Thursday 18 August 2011.
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Fast and furious First 5000 critical in saving the planet
Ulrike Schuermann | January 17, 2011The urgency for all businesses to be economically, environmentally and socially sustainable has never been greater.
From a customer perspective; the world will be putting a price on carbon emissions and customers will prefer to do business with sustainable companies (including Government procurement) = sustainability is good for business.
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Tools for SMEs to trade on sustainability record
Virginia Harrison | November 24, 2010
No business wants to do more reporting, but tracking and publicising sustainability performance could help boost the bottom line.
Sustainability reporting covers an organisation’s economic, environmental and social achievements, to satisfy a range of stakeholder obligations.
The benefits for corporates of improving sustainable practices include brand and reputation strengthening, increased efficiency and market differentiation.
But it’s an area smaller companies often overlook.
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Carbon cleansing – tips for SMEs on turning green
Virginia Harrison | November 3, 2010Thinking about shifting your business into carbon neutral but not sure where to start?
Pressure on big companies to take responsibility for their impact on the environment has resulted in a swelling of the carbon neutral club, with the National Australia Bank one of the latest companies to join the ranks. But business insights firm Dun & Bradstreet says this kind of corporate responsibility isn’t just for the top end of town.
