Useful environmental links and explanatory documents

If you are interested in learning more in general about lessening the impact of your company on the environment, or are considering proposing a similar program, you may find the following links of interest and value. Join us and thousands of other companies in this important and uplifting journey of improvement for our planet. We have a long way to go, but the journey promises to be exciting and very worthwhile.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Sustainable_development
  Helpful background to commercial issues of sustainability in business
• http://www.energystar.gov/
  Understanding energy efficiency of office equipment
• http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/transportation/business/
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  Tools and calculators for fleet calculations, mileage covered, etc
• http://www.wbcsd.org
  World Business Council for Sustainable Development - case studies, facts, links
• https://climatefriendly.com
  Consulting practice (originally Australian) with good explanations of Gold Standard vs other carbon offset projects
• http://www.carbonneutral.com
  Consumer site that provides some useful pointers to offsets.
• http://www.iea.org/Textbase/stats/index.asp
  Strong background statistics and projections for future oil supply & price trends
• http://www.wbcsd.org
  The Carbon Disclosure Project - worldwide consortium of leading businesses, including HSBC, attempting to get leading companies to pool resources to properly map emissions from companies worldwide.
• http://www.rmi.org
  The Rocky Mountain Institute - source of ground-breaking books Factor 4 and Natural Capitalism, authored or co-authored by Amory Lovins, both significant works establishing mechanisms and clarifying solutions at practical levels for people and businesses to implement for efficiency gains in all energy inputs.
• http://www.heuga.com/InterfSustain/uk
  Heuga carpets (UK) sustainability Mission and case history data as a Zero Emissions example
• http://www.aigroup.asn.au/scripts/cgiip.exe/
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  Australian Industry Group Presentations on Various Climate Change issues

'Sulphur Mountain Trees' (detail) taken in Alberta, Canada by Shelton Muller using the Tamron SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di-II LD Aspherical (IF)