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Implementing Strategic Sustainable Initiatives
Date: 21-Oct-2008 to 31-Oct-2008
Venue:
Location: Auckland and Wellington
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Fundamentals of Carbon & Emissions Management
Date: 29-Oct-2008 to 30-Oct-2008
Venue:
Location: Auckland & Wellington
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The three practical steps to GreenFleet:
Step 1: Be transport efficient
Step 2: Support alternative fuels and vehicles
Step 3: Offset the impacts of your vehicle
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6 simple things you and your business can do to take action on air quality and climate change:
1. * When you buy a new car, choose a more fuel efficient and low emission vehicle.
2. Check your tyres weekly to ensure they are properly inflated and keep your car regularly tuned.
3. * Reduce the number of kilometres you, your staff and your family drive by walking, biking, or taking passenger transport wherever possible.
4. * Carpool with your colleagues or classmates, even just 2 days a week.
5. * Plant trees to absorb the carbon your travel generates. Click here for information about GreenFleet tree planting.
6. Try Telecommuting from home.
* As a member, GreenFleet can help you with these.
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Less is more - reducing business mileage (6/10/2008)
Every year, Kiwi workers drive millions of kilometres on business and use an excessive amount of fuel - but can they honestly say every kilometre was necessary?
This is a question every business should ask itself now that fuel around $2.00 a litre is a reality and experts are predicting fuel prices will continue to rise for years to come.
It can be incredibly difficult to tackle company culture, where face-to-face meetings are considered the most important aspect of securing and keeping business contracts. However, this assumption is being challenged by an increasing number of companies that realise that the greenest mile is the one that isn’t travelled.
There will always be a place for face-to-face meetings to ensure a successful start to a business relationship, but that meeting could also be used to secure support for an environmental approach to undertaking business in the future.
So what alternatives can a company consider to reduce its mileage, protect the environment and send a green message to its customers?
The UK based Energy Saving Trust provides some practical advice for cutting business milage.
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Emission controls lacking on New Zealand waters (1/09/2008)
As a nation, we would be horrified if someone was to pour 40 litres of old oil and fuel into Lake Rotorua, Lake Taupo or Able Tasman National Park How is it then, that this is considered acceptable if you do it by waterskiing or going fishing for the day?
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Where do I get Bio Fuel from? (26/08/2008)
A good many people ask us here at GreenFleet about where to get biofuels from. This article is a list of the biofuel manufacturers we know of.
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