Here are just some suggestions to help your business get involved in and celebrate World Environment Day.

External:

1. Host a business networking function or seminar to discuss environmental business initiatives.
2. Look at opportunities to do something for your clients/customers – e.g. promotional discount on sustainable products and/or services on World Environment Day.
3. Demonstrate your business’s support for World Environment Day and sustainable practices by holding an event or activity and promote this through advertising.
4. Be creative – investigate marketing opportunities for your business with an environmental focus.
5. Sponsor an environmental cause.
6. Pledge commitment to implementing sustainable practices in your business from World Environment Day onwards.

Internal:

1. Promote ideas to reduce, re-use and recycle waste e.g. set up an organic waste system for the office, set your printers and copiers to double side automatically.
2. Encourage staff to use sustainable modes of transportation (walking, jogging, cycling, skating, public transport, carpool) for a day.
3. Raise environmental awareness amongst staff by scheduling training programmes or invite a guest speaker to the workplace (e.g. local council eco-adviser).
4. Have a ‘no lift’ day at work and use the stairs instead.
5. Set up a ‘green group’ in your office to help identify and drive the uptake of sustainable practices throughout the year.
6. Calculate your organisation’s carbon footprint and look to reduce or offset your company’s greenhouse gas emissions – see www.carbonzero.co.nz.

Think of other activities that have high participation, raise public awareness and have a legacy or sustainable outcome that will mean the most to your business.

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