Category: Mayday Team Thoughts
Businesses must stop looking to save the world and do what they do best: create, innovate and market. Surely this should be the message into COP 17 at Durban. The Prince’s Mayday Network is a community of businesses working to combat climate change through transforming the way they manage their resources, market their products and engage their stakeholders.
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Category: Mayday Journey
24/7 Uptime have been involved with The Prince’s Mayday Network since 2009, thanks to an initial introduction made by Michael Dinsdale at Brother UK.
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Category: Mayday events
The UK film industry contributes £4.5 billion to the Economy. It’s also responsible for an estimated 500,000 tonnes of carbon a year. Producers, cameramen and gaffers (film electricians) would like to be green, but a lack of affordable alternatives to power-hungry incandescent film lights make this difficult.
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Category: Climate change policies
In the past few years, through my work with the Commonwealth Orchard, I’ve has been encouraging planting of trees and orchards across Scotland, and I’m delighted to be able to say that it’s an idea that is literally now, bearing fruit. Over the past days I’ve picked my first plum of the season, (an Early Rivers, and the apples and other fruit seem to be coming on well.
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Category: Climate change policies
Alongside the need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, there is an urgent and growing need to support communities to adapt to the changes already happening. UNICEF’s Climate Positive initiative provides children who are least responsible, but most affected by climate change, with the tools to cope with their changing environment.
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Category: Vision for a sustainable future
As the environmental consequences of our business actions have become harder to ignore, so has the increase in the number of start-ups that place environmental values at their core. Having been mobilising UK businesses on climate change and resource depletion since 2007, The Mayday Network also provides invaluable support to emerging businesses keen to harness the economic advantages of starting green.
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Category: Climate change policies
According to the Green New Deal Group, the global economy is facing a ‘triple crunch’ - a combined result of a credit-fuelled financial crisis, accelerating climate change, and soaring energy prices. To help prevent this crunch the group are proposing a Green New Deal.
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Category: Vision for a sustainable future
Delivering a revolutionary approach to deal effectively with growing volumes of UK large-sale electrical and electronic waste
Bob Clarke, CEO, WEEE Systems
Many of you will have watched aghast recently as BBC’s Panorama http://bbc.in/jJQLQ8 highlighted the ultimate fate of much of the millions of tonnes of e-waste produced annually in the UK.
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Category: Climate change policies
Colin Stanbridge, Chief Executive of London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), talks about why moving the clocks forward will be good for the environment but also good for business.
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Category: Mayday events
A South West Mayday gathering was held at the Start Living Centre in Cabot Circus Bristol last week. The event attracted senior business leaders from a variety of sectors including insurance, water, energy, tourism, legal, food and more.
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