Environmental & CSR News

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 ...