Clearly, as an environmental consultancy, we take our own sustainability choices seriously!

As we are currently a very small, remotely-based, primarily online startup, the key areas to consider are transport and home-working environment. We are also following the Small99 Hero process for tackling our Carbon emissions:

Transport

Our preferred methods of transport are train or bike! Being based in Brighton makes this relatively easy but of course it isn’t always possible and so we try to keep the use of more heavily emitting transport to a minimum. Almost all of our meetings are online which also keeps transport emissions down.

Home-working environment

Energy is supplied by Octopus which provides 100% renewable electricity from a variety of sources and our web-hosting is through Eco Web Hosting and Squarespace, both of which state that they use fully renewable energy.

Banking is with Starling which performs well in recent sustainability rankings and we are currently in the process of replacing bulbs with LEDs and installing smart plugs to monitor and control usage. Recycling is a given although is the last of the 5 R’s that we try to adhere to: Refuse; Reduce; Repair; Reuse; Recycle.

Small99 Hero

The Small99 Hero platform allows users to create a quick-fire Carbon Reduction Plan and automatically track your progress through a simple to follow process with concrete actions and outcomes. We are working our way through this process and will be posting updates in due course - but I’m delighted to report that we have taken our first steps: