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In this Issue
Note from Jean
Featured Article
Enviro Action Activities
Links to Articles
Note from Jean
There are still some people who don’t believe in global warming and others that simply don’t care. In fact it does not matter what you believe or care about global warming the prices of fuel and other energy is going up and will continue to do so. This flows on so all your costs are going up. Environmental legislation is getting tighter and we have carbon trading coming in shortly. Whatever you believe is irrelevant - you will benefit from an environmental management system!
An ISO 14001 management system will help you identify where you can reduce your energy and other resource use. It will also give you greater access to markets, greater respectability with regulators, neighbours, green groups and most importantly customers. So I don’t mind what your take is on global warming – I know you will benefit from joining one of my training courses.
I would not keep telling you about this if I did not know that it really helps you to save time and money.
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Featured Article - Dishwashers help both the environment and women!
I use a dishwasher – typically twice a week. More when I have extra visitors. It uses power but gives me time to do other useful things and uses less hot water because it is only twice a week. I did the experiment when we lived in a rural area with no water supply other than our low rainfall. I measured the water used washing by hand, including the time taken for hot water to arrive hot, thus wasting both water and heating on the frequent short washes. My results sent me straight out to buy a dishwasher. OK this is a value judgment but sensibly used, a dishwasher saves!.
When it comes to clothes, think about your washing machine and next time you replace it look for one with good energy ratings. If you can afford it, I suggest choosing one of those build to comply with the European Union’s long life and recycling requirements to reduce the waste of embodied energy in the machine. My washing machine is Swedish and going strong after 18 years. The same comment applies to dishwashers.
Why use hot water for washing. Cold or lukewarm is just as effective. The only exception I can think of is where there are asthmatics in the house with dust mite allergies, then a 60oC wash for the bedding to be sure to kill the mites but back to cold for the rest of the wash.
Air-dry the clothes unless it is very wet. Even small apartments have somewhere to put a drying rack and I dry sheets on poles across the laundry from the top of the door to the cupboard because the strata rules prohibit them being hung outside. This works well.
How do you heat your water? Gas and Solar are the most energy efficient.
The big ticket issues here are water temperature for washing and use of a dryer.
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In big and small ways, day after day, we all pollute the air, water and land. So stop and think. Some common ones are using too many paper towels, washing clothes with chlorine bleach, buying a new Styrofoam cup every day for your cup of coffee. Why not take you own cup to buy your morning coffee fix on the run.
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About Enviro Action
My aim is to help you to understand and manage your own management system. I do not want to be the sort of consultant that keeps hanging on for years. I put a lot of effort in to transferring knowledge and skills to build capacity within your business. While we love to keep in touch and would love to work with you again and/or on a regular basis, we make every effort to help you be self sustaining.
I guarantee that if you have completed all the training in your business and thoroughly internally audited to check it, you will be able to be certified and if you are unfortunate enough to have a problem with your external audit, I will go on helping you by phone and email at NO COST to get you passed!
Here are the links to the latest articles on the Enviro Jean Blog
Environmentalists have been saying for years that we need to prevent climate change but the emphasis is changing to adapting to it because of the mounting evidence that global warming is happening faster than expected and that it’s already too late to avert the most dangerous consequences. Al Gore is one of those who has made this change. Read more
The latest Newspoll showed that 88% of Australians wanted to see a carbon reduction scheme, with 61% saying it should happen regardless of what other countries did, while a survey of the largest 300 listed companies found that only 28% provided any information on “policies or practices that have been undertaken to reduce greenhouse gases”. Read more
New Zealand won the Bledisloe Cup (Rugby) and also appears to be well and truly winning the climate change action! They have passed a climate change bill to set up the country’s emissions trading scheme to commence in 2009 and making it the first national cap-and-trade process outside of Europe. Read more
They found that there are “escalating problems created by the divergent and inconsistent approach across the country” to waste management. Read more
Kindest regards
Jean Cannon
Helping business build effective management systems to save money and grow
It is easy to be green
Winner 2008 FarmBis Distance Learning/eLearning Award, 2007 South Australian Seafood Industry Training Award in recognition of training excellence and more
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please contact me on jean@enviroaction.com.au.
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