Even if the grubby money hungry hounds in corporate don’t believe climate change is real, taking positive action can be extremely profitable – to the planet and your business. In this article, I’m going to talk about how building a corporate structure around sustainability can be lucrative, because when going green puts more green in wallets they’ll listen to the science. From utilising online collaboration tools to downscaling on office space and reducing costs, here are some of the ways businesses can prosper from greenification.
Carbon emissions are costing you
Project management software and collaboration tools allow team members to work from anywhere. This means that employees can work from home and cut the commute from the daily grind, while still working effectively as a team. One TIME article estimated that the average cost of petrol used to regularly commute to work came to roughly £40,000 every ten years. And wouldn’t you rather invest that money in, say, your child’s education or, better still, your retirement? When it comes to the environment, burning through a litre of petrol equates to 2.31kg of CO2 emissions. About 15% of airborne pollution can be equated to car use worldwide.You can invite clients to use your cloud service to be kept up to date on project milestones without arranging a special meeting which might otherwise call for overseas travel. Flying is the most environmentally costly mode of transport. In the UK, flying is responsible for somewhere between 13% and 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Flying is also very costly; that’s because even low-cost flights present many hidden costs, and airport prices are often high.
