At Utility People, we understood that the planet is our one home and it desperately needed our help.
The climate crisis was one of the most important issues of our time, and we believed that we all had a shared responsibility to take action. That was why we made sustainability the core of what we did, collaboratively working towards promising incentives.
As an industry, the utility sector was a significant contributor to carbon emissions, which was one of the reasons why we decided to take positive action to reduce our own emissions and become a more environmentally sustainable business.
We aimed to do everything we could to reduce our climate impact. So, we measured our carbon footprint with Positive Planet and considered the broader environmental impacts of our services.
We made small but significant changes wherever and whenever we could. We acknowledged that we were far from perfect, but we believed that many small efforts, repeated day in and day out, would go a long way toward achieving our goal of becoming a carbon-neutral business.
Although small, we believed the impact was mighty. We actively encouraged our clients and candidates to take similar steps, where possible, to fight the aggressive battle against the climate crisis.
Our home was one thing we all had in common, and we understood that progress was impossible without change.
Head over to our friends at Positive Planet for tips and tricks on how you can actively fight climate change.
Here are just a handful of the things we’re doing as a small team to reduce our carbon footprint:
- We're measuring our carbon footprint with Positive Planet and will be putting a plan in place to reduce our carbon emissions.
- The Utility People team members work from home on average three days out of five, which reduces CO2 emission.
- We’ve replaced the majority of business meetings with video conferencing to avoid unnecessary travel.
- We provide laptops to all team members, which require less energy than desktops.
- We use cleaning companies who use environmentally friendly cleaning products to keep our oceans safe.
- We recycle waste paper, cardboard, plastic and tin cans and reuse when and where we can.
- We're proud to announce we are paperless, meaning we favour digital files over physical ones.
- We shop local where practical and support local businesses.