5th Jul / Carbon Footprint = 342 tonnes
I am acutely aware that the very nature of our business and the products we use are not exactly environmentally friendly…that may be an understatement, in fact it is.
I have to be honest here and state that in the past three years numerous people have cluttered my office to make money out of SME’s from what is a serious global issue… that in itself is not a problem, but the normal patter goes along the lines of if you pay me a ridiculous consultancy fee I will tell you your carbon footprint…..then we can go and put some windmills in a place that I have never heard of and believe me I am well traveled. In other words we would not have a full understanding of where or what our investment is being placed into. That concerns me.
That changed three weeks ago when Mark Lay walked into my office from a locally based Oxfordshire organisation called OxTreeGen http://www.oxtreegen.com/home.aspx
A couple of facts.
- It takes an oak tree 300 years to grow 300 years to rest and 300 years to gradually die
- When you leave electrical products on standby they still use 86% of there normal power
- 1 tree absorbs 1 tonne of carbon over its lifetime
I could go on with a list… some of which are startling to say the least.
