Sustainability - Page Categories View All Timeline Our Sector Sustainability Community Charity & CSR HR Select Category Timeline Our Sector Sustainability Community Charity & CSR HR Mar 27th 2023 BE Offices’ CSR manager shortlisted for Sustainability Leader of the Year award BE Offices sustainability champion, Julie Tucker, has been shortlisted for the BusinessGreen UK Green Business Awards 2023 in the category of Sustainability Leader of the Year. The awards showcase the very best of the UK’s green economy ... Oct 14th 2022 BE Offices’ Euston and Farringdon buildings join the 2022 Mayor of London’s Business Climate Challenge BE Offices’ Euston and Headspace Group’s Farringdon buildings have been accepted on to 2022 Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge with the Camden Climate Change Alliance. BE Offices today announces it has been accepted at two locations ... Aug 17th 2022 BE Offices partners with Treeapp on international reforestation projects BE Offices supports carbon neutral ambitions through Treeapp’s certified global tree planting projects. BE Offices is delighted to have partnered with Treeapp to support reforestation projects across the globe as a means of offsetting ... Feb 01st 2022 BE Offices leads the charge with low carbon ambitions Leading flexible workspace provider takes great strides along the path to a carbon neutral future. The UK government recently set the world’s most ambitious climate change target to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035, which has put increased ... Nov 29th 2021 Future-proof your business with a climate action strategy In the wake of the recent COP26 (Conference of the Parties – the decision-making body of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), it has never been more important for individuals and businesses alike to reduce their carbon emissions. ... Oct 08th 2021 BE Offices partners with Planet Mark for sustainability workshop Continuing our hybrid events programme, this week we ran a virtual sustainability workshop in partnership with Planet Mark, to learn more about what business can do to help address climate change. All businesses have a part to play in tackling ... Jun 15th 2021 10 ways for your business to help improve air quality Air quality is not just an environmental issue, but an important health issue which affects us all. Air pollution causes up to 36,000 deaths every day in the UK and has been recognised by the World Health Organisation and the UK Government ... Apr 29th 2021 BE Offices furthers commitment to net zero status BE Offices has taken another step on its road to net zero status with 81% of its entire portfolio now powered by renewably sourced electricity. The company made a conscious decision as far back as 2018 to convert all centres, over which it has ... Jan 07th 2020 Being green is good for business It’s not easy being green – but it is good for business. Sustainability and green initiatives are beneficial not only for the environment, but for attracting talent and making impactful longer-term financial gains. We evaluate ... Oct 20th 2019 Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 13 – 93 eggs safely delivered! Our last working day….. Last night we were on patrol from 7pm to 10pm however because the rain and lightning was getting closer and closer, this meant we had to wait for an hour and a half until we did one walk of the beach and that was it. No ... Oct 19th 2019 Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 12 – 86 turtle eggs moved to safety! We were on the 2-5am patrol last night/this morning and we got very lucky with the weather and with turtles! Firstly, we came across an already buried nest which wasn’t in too good an area so therefore had to be excavated. I (Tom) pulled out 86 eggs ... Oct 18th 2019 Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Days 10/11 – 81 baby turtles released into the sea After a much needed rest day on day 10 of their trip, our intrepid volunteers were back to work yesterday…. Yesterday (Wednesday) I (Meg) spent the majority of my day off at the clinic in Nicoya having X Rays and tests, and so the doctor could ... Oct 16th 2019 Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 9 – a broken rib and a baby armadillo! Last night the yellow warning for flooding was no joke, the rain we had was ridiculous. Most of the track to the beach and to the main house was flooded, at one point it was so deep that it was up to our knees! I (Meg) had hatchery duties at 8pm and 9pm, ... Oct 15th 2019 Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 8 – and still it rains! We didn’t have a patrol last night so we got a full nights sleep which was much needed! I (Tom) was then awake for 5:30am to start my duties on the rain gauge and turtle hatchery. We had a lot of rain, it was the second highest it’s ever been this season! ... Oct 14th 2019 Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 7 – Mangrove swamps and howler monkeys Patrol last night was strange in that only one leader was available for the patrol, so that meant we had to walk the full length of the beach rather than just one half. By the time we got to the southern end of the beach, the heavens decided to open ... Oct 13th 2019 Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 6 – Babies 2, 3 and 4! We did the 2am to 5am patrol, and we were so lucky to have a very clear night and the moon was shining bright. Sadly we didn’t see any turtles but did find a poached nest that had been predated by a dog or raccoon. We stayed up to catch the sunrise but ... Oct 12th 2019 Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 5 – Our first baby! Today (Friday), we finished our patrol at 1am, sadly we didn’t see any turtles however the weather was good and we didn’t get too wet. I (Tom), had hatchery duty at 6am but no babies appeared, however to my delight there was a lonesome baby turtle ... Oct 11th 2019 Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 4 – Turtle eggs galore! Surreal, magical and indescribable! Last night (Wednesday) was our first patrol, we had the midnight until 3am shift, and when we got there our leader, Harriet, informed us that there was turtle on North Beach that the previous patrol had found. ... Oct 10th 2019 Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 3 – Deluges, footballs and fencing Our first night (Tuesday) at the project involved a patrol of the beach from 8pm until 11pm, however there was a huge thunderstorm and the heavens completely opened. Neither of us have ever seen a thunderstorm like it and it lasted for hours! ... Oct 09th 2019 Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Days 1/2 – Getting there! Ever year BE Offices send two very lucky members of our team on a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience to help in less fortunate areas of the world. This year the destination is a turtle conservation project in Costa Rica Over the past few years ... May 15th 2019 Top 5 ways to keep your office food and drink ethical It can feel daunting to try and transform your office into an environmentally-friendly workplace, but one easy way is to change up your food and drink habits. With almost a third of our lives spent in our workplace, it’s important to be as environmentally-friendly ... Oct 16th 2018 BE goes ‘green’ as majority of centres convert to renewable sourced energy BE Offices today announces that 75% of its centres now use electricity from renewable sources. The company made a conscious decision to convert all centres, over which it has control to determine energy providers, to power from renewable ... Jun 14th 2018 Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 10 – Reduce, reuse, recycle In previous blog posts I have talked about the different projects that ReefCI are working on, but during our time here it has become evident that there is a great deal to be said about the running of the island itself. ReefCI want to lead by example ... Jun 13th 2018 Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 9 – She sells sea shells on the sea shore *Tip: coffee can worsen sea sickness, so if it’s particularly choppy or if you suffer with it badly avoid it altogether just before getting on the boat. Tuesday was conch dive day, our job for one of the dives would be to find out the number ... Jun 13th 2018 Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 8 – back to Tom Owen’s Caye Another week in the office…. well on a desert island in the middle of the Caribbean! Monday morning Victoria and I had breakfast at a local cafe and went to the Hokey Pokey Water Taxi rank to meet the returning volunteers and new recruits. ... Jun 09th 2018 Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 5 – batten down the hatches! *Tip: When it rains, it pours on the island and you had better make sure you leave nothing on the washing line when it does as it may well not be there in the morning! Thursday started as the previous two days had done, a pre-dive snack at 6.30 followed ... Jun 08th 2018 Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 4 – Midweek madness – crash bang whallop! *Tip: when diving or snorkelling, don’t touch anything and keep your limbs away from the coral. Many species of coral are venomous in order to protect them from predators. Pretty to look at, not to touch. Bad things come in threes so they ... Jun 07th 2018 Saving the ocean on World Oceans Day To coincide with the BE Offices charity trip to a reef conservation project in Belize we are supporting World Oceans Day today. The ocean is said to occupy almost 71% of the world’s surface – yet only 10% of it has ever been explored ... Jul 14th 2015 EV Charging Points at Basingstoke and Reading Electric vehicle charging points have been installed at our Reading and Basingstoke business centres! At Business Environment, we pride ourselves on being able to support businesses in our centres in their quest to go green. This is why we ... Jul 14th 2015 How to set office environmental targets Doing your part to help tackle climate change by making your office green and environmentally-friendly is great – but without measurable targets you won’t know if you’re making progress Not only does going green mean you’re being a responsible ... « Older Entries (Or jump to page 123 of 3) How to set office environmental targets
