My company, Flare Accounting Solutions, is a small accounting firm based in Ireland.

Our main step has been to cut down on the volume of paperwork held onto unnecessarily, in folders, or in bookshelves. Not just for ourselves but the many various clients we deal with also.

To me these methods of information storage prove not only hard to find the particular information you want quickly but also cost a fortune in paper and printer ink.

To this end we have encouraged more and more clients to use cloud based accounting packages as well as cloud based storage solutions.

We have found the increased accessibility to be very beneficial as well as a much cheaper solution for those businesses we deal with.

We spent some time in developing an Environment Policy with realistic and achievable aims, which is communicated with all staff and has become part of all business decision-making. Its great to see progress. For instance: we persuaded the landlord to put in a water meter so we could audit water use as part of a wider look at resource efficiency; we have ordered a first electric delivery vehicle.

Our business is planting a tree under the B1G1 project for every new client we take on board or if something good happens. We have planted over 2000 trees! 

We are also making a concentrated effort to go paperless in our office! 

As a Non Profit , we're soon to help citizens and businesses be more sustainable. We're inviting them to Register their Electrical Appliances with us, so that we can divert electrical goods from leaving the community.  Citizens can then link to a local EEESafe Certified Repairer for which we're going to start recruiting from May/June this year.

This will provide more local repair work, lower cost repairs, prevent more waste, save more carbon emissions and allow us to regularly donate £100 to someone in the local community. Our fund raising comes from our profits and we proportionally credit the Stakeholders and Citizens with the metrics they allowed us to donate.  As far as we understand, there is no business that donates money to individual citizens, as voted by the community themselves AND displays it transparently as it happens, and not in a report at the end of the year.  Some people need help NOW.

Your community profile will carry the metrics and our Directory will show your business customers just how much you've contributed.

Hear are some of the metrics we can produce, just by working with 20,000 households who register their appliances with us. Community and Business Metrics

If we had 70% of UK Households, you could add three zeros to those numbers, meaning just in our 1st Phase soft-launch and over a period of 5 years we could potentially have donated £13M and created a whole lot of additional work for our Local Stakeholders.

We have many more features to add into our SaaS Platform and these metrics and others will further increase these numbers and build evidence of sustainability.

One thing we are doing, is that we have a coffee machine and the grounds instead of being thrown in the bin, are been given away for people to use in their garden or add to the own composts bins.

Is any one doing this or thought of doing this?

Please tell me why you Thumbs down. Always interested in Feedback. :) Don't be shy now.

Yes. We have. It's one of the groups we intend to add into the Local Social Network.

Because we'll be creating a Community Currency created by our Donations, the aim is to have the same groups in all UK Communities and enable the currency created by your interactions to be used when you travel elsewhere, it gives us scalability around the UK and abroad.

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Hi EEE Rob we can't see a thumbs down, maybe it was done in error then removed. The thumbs up/down is a way of rating the helpfulness of a response.

Hi as a web design agency we are mindful of our carbon footprint so we have taken steps to reduce this by using a range of ways one being more environmentally friendly by planting a tree for every web site we launch. We also encourage our clients to do the same.

If you run an ecommerce website, why not give shoppers the option to purchase and plant a tree with every purchase they make? There are some truly brilliant companies out there that have seamlessly integrated this with their checkout.  Or alternatively, you could plant a tree for every order, building your own Digital Forest. 

If you don’t have an ecommerce shop you could still plant a tree, we plant a tree every time we launch a website in the companies name to say thank you for choosing us to work with.

Depending on the branch of Starbucks you go into EEE Rob - they have bags of used Coffee Grounds for you to take away with ideas of how to use them in your garden. They are great for Rose Bushes too