Here are some very quick snippets of great things that are happening. Clients often blow me away with their wonderful innovation and ideas.

A group of dryland farmers in central Queensland have managed to reduce their fuel use by 80% using the same tractors just by changing their work practices and the way they use their equipment. I hope you are all as impresses as I was when they told me this!

There is a great move by people to plant trees to help counter carbon emissions. Great idea BUT it needs to be done right because some plantations are actually causing environmental harm by not considering the ecology of the planting.

I am a sponsor of an organisation called Trees For Life and they only plant trees grown from seed that has been sustainably collected from the area where the trees will grow and in proportions that fit in with the local ecology.

Another client is trying to do the right thing in an aquaculture business on a very windy coastline. He wants to power his farm with wind turbines and connect to the grid so that excess power can go to general use but he can still draw power from the grid when the winds are not adequate. Great idea and permitted for domestic sized generation but his size means he is too big to fit the domestic regulations and too small to be commercial. Hopefully the bureaucrats will untie their red tape in the foreseeable future.

I love it when I work with clients that are actually carbon neutral in their operations, and some of them are. And they use recycled paper and recycle as much as possible.

I will point out that my book “It is easy being green; simple steps to help your business help the world” is printed on recycled paper.

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