Cumbria Business Environment Network

Your company needs to nominate a staff member or team of staff to take responsibility for the Green at Heart award. Including time for the audit, attendance of workshops, and implementing the changes you identify.

Improving your knowledge and understanding of saving energy and reducing waste is a key part of the award. We will be arranging numerous workshops throughout the year with various themes. Look out for the ones that are specifically aimed at specific levels of the award, as they will give you the information to retain what you have but hopefully improve to the next level.

This is not only a key part of the award but it will also give you an understanding of the energy consumption of your business. Keeping a record of energy use can be used as an effective tool to reduce your energy use and ultimately save you money.

To collect the points keep a record of your energy use for your business premises.

Monitoring your waste production will give you an insight as to what reductions can be made. A simple log of what is being thrown out will help you identify where possible reductions can be made to your waste production.

If you are on a water meter, monitoring your consumption is a very important part of your business costs. Monitoring your usage is a very effective way to identify ways to reduce consumption.

Provide your service users with the facility to feedback on the service you provide. Providing this electronically would also save on your paper costs.