Sustainability

Together We can Help Heal Our Planet

Fascinating Facts that Effect our Planet

Wild numbers, disturbing and encouraging data!

As you share these within your professional and personal communities, you’ll recognize that everything you do to contribute to revive our environment makes a difference. Everyone you encourage to do the same, makes a difference as well.

1. Rainwater harvesting is a great way to collect otherwise wasted water for future uses. It’s even becoming a building requirement in some countries. Everyone needs water, this is a great way to continuously save money and protect the environment.

2. Americans use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year and if we recycle one soda can we can save enough energy to power a TV for 3 hours.

3. The Smog Free Project, headed by Daan Roosegaard, is a pioneering technology that removes smog from the air and turns it into jewelry.

4 On average, a supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags per year! Bring your reusable bags instead.

5. Changing your font from Arial to Times New Roman can save up to 30 percent of your ink usage. Printer cartridges are expensive. This makes sense.

6. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now contains around 2 trillion pieces of plastic, including plastic bottle caps, bottles, bags, lids, containers, and cups. (The Roundup)

7. Seaweed farming is becoming more and more popular. It is a versatile and nutritious crop, and they grow quickly compared to land crops. Some types of seaweeds can be harvested within six weeks. In a world surrounded by oceans, this food resource offers great opportunities for a hungry world.

8. This is crazy – 5 trillion plastic bags are used globally every year. Switching to reusable grocery bags could dramatically reduce this number.

9. Rainforests produce 28% of the Earth's oxygen. Got to love that land.

10. Batteries are an environmental time bomb – by one estimate, more than 12 million TONS of lithium-ion car batteries are expected to retire between now and 2030. Each year in the UK, 600 million consumer batteries are disposed. Laid end-to-end these batteries would reach from the UK to Australia and back again.

11 World-renowned scientist Jane Goodall (authority on chimpanzees) aims to plant 1 billion trees in the next decade. Our planet contains over 3 trillion trees.

12 Americans use over 2.5 million plastic bottles every thirty minutes. Most of these bottles

13 The indigenous population only accounts for 5 per cent of the global population but is responsible for the protection of 80 per cent of the world’s biodiversity. Maybe we should be looking towards the indigenous people as trend setters and learn from their methods.
 

Question for you – which two from this list can you address and change your behaviors, in order to improve our world?

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Create your Sustainability Initiative

Regardless of company size Small and Medium enterprises can contribute to a healthier world. Here we’ve provided a resource for you from Green Business Bureau to integrate practices that are being adopted, measured and reported by major organizations across the planet. Three items of note:
1. The Sustainability Checklist for organizations looking to integrate elements inside their firms which support our environment.

2. The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol has defined three scopes of emissions. The scopes correlate to who ‘owns’ those emissions and the level of control applicable to changing those emission levels at each stage. You’ll find some of this useful as you broaden your view of sustainability:

Scope 1 Direct Emissions GHG emissions directly from operations that are owned or controlled by the reporting company like onsite energy usage, company-owned/ leased vehicles.

Scope 2 Indirect Emissions Indirect GHG emissions from the generation of purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heating, or cooling consumed by the reporting company (NOTE: This is where the Tune device has significant impact on carbon emissions and costs) Contact

Scope 3 All indirect emissions not included in scope 2 that occur in the value chain of the reporting company, including both upstream and downstream emissions like business travel, investments, purchased goods and more.

More details? https://ghgprotocol.org/

3 Media Opportunity This is the hottest topic on the planet (pun intended). Your efforts to support sustainability can gain you some solid media coverage in both local, potentially national press. Make sure your PR / Communications team is aware of what you’re adopting and how you contribute to human health as well as saving animals and plants on land and sea, plus our airborne creatures.

How Tune Reduces Power and Saves Money

Here’s an example how Tune client Henkel Manufacturing reduced their kWh usage by 15%. The numbers represent a year of savings.

This image is from an EPA calculator to point out how a company’s savings are equivalent to other Greenhouse Gas emission sources.

savings are like for your organization. This provides you a strong way to sell environmental initiatives internally. It also offers you a strong case to gain media coverage, as you see below in #3.

Improve your Environmental Program and Champion Sustainability

Pilot the Tune

There are two ways to test this in your facilities. You can identify a location to install the Tune® filters and measure your reduction in kWh usage over a couple months. Or, with the proper metering device, you can measure electrical flow, install a Tune® filter and quickly see the drop in spikes. Now you know – it’s right in front of you – that dirty electricity, that heat, is being eliminated in your building.

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US Government Initiatives

Building A Clean Energy Economy: A Guidebook

Sustainability Events

2023/ 2024/ 2025

Get involved! Show up! Gain best-practices in environmental support in these North American and Global event: https://conferenceindex.org/conferences/sustainability