Many businesses are now working hard to reduce the impacts of their operations, their services and/or their products. As part of this, every employee has an important role to play. Even if your company isn’t taking action to reduce their environmental impacts, to cut their carbon footprints or to improve their resource efficiency there are […]
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Feb
Feb
We are delighted to say that Circular Ecology is chairing and presenting at the Ecobuild and Resource events on 8-10 March 2016 at ExCeL, London. On 10 March, Dr Stephen Allen will chair a session on resource efficiency at Resource and Dr Craig Jones will present on carbon accounting at Ecobuild. We will also be exhibiting […]
15
Feb
Feb
Circular Ecology will be speaking at Central Europe’s biggest conference for sustainable cities – Urban Future. Over the course of two days, international and domestic experts from cities around Europe will exchange views on best practices and case studies on making cities more sustainable. Urban Futures is expected to attract over 1,500 experts, 150 speakers, […]
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Jan
Jan
We are delighted to announce that Circular Ecology is now an official supporter of OpenLCA, which is a popular life cycle assessment software. Circular Ecology funded an update to OpenLCA, which was a new copy and paste functionality. This new function allows results to be exported more easily, thereby saving users considerable time in the […]
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Oct
Oct
The environmental footprint of our clothing is significant. It takes around 2,700 litres of water, for example, to make a single cotton-t-shirt. To help leading brands and retailers improve their sustainability, Circular Ecology and partners are running a third Business Leaders’ workshop on Thursday 5 November at M&S’s London office. Dr Stephen Allen of Circular […]
Carbon Footprint, Energy, News, Sustainability
ISO 14001:2015 Finally Released: Environmental Management Systems
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Sep
Sep
The long anticipated update to ISO 14001 on environmental management systems has finally been released. It is one of the most widely used and influential environmental management standards with over 300,000 certificates issued worldwide every year. It replaces ISO 14001:2004, which has now been resigned to the archives. So what can we expect from the […]
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Aug
Aug
Blog by Dr Stephen Allen In the UK, we appear to have significantly reduced our impact on the climate since 1990, with our reported annual greenhouse gas emissions falling by 25% (2012). But this isn’t a complete picture of our contribution to climate change, because it ignores the embodied carbon of all the stuff we import. […]
Buildings, Carbon Footprint, Construction, Embodied Carbon, Energy, News, Sustainability
Winner of A Green Apple Built Environment Award
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Aug
Aug
We are delighted to announce Circular Ecology’s role in winning a Green Apple award for the Built Environment. Circular Ecology’s client New Sustainable Building Model Ltd (NSBM) entered the Green Apple Awards and competed against more than 200 other nominations in the Built Environment & Architectural Heritage category for 2015. NSBM are based in Cambridgeshire […]
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Jun
Jun
Circular Ecology’s Craig Jones was interviewed for Sustainable Lens, by Professor Samuel Mann, which is now available to listen to online. Prof. Mann is a geographer working in computing and who has taught and researched at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand since 1997, including five years as Head of Department. Sam has published over 150 conference and journal papers […]
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May
May
On 16 June 2015, Dr Stephen Allen of Circular Ecology is one of a range of local and national invited speakers at the “The Future of Work Conference 2015 – Sustainable Business“. A part of Bristol’s Big Green Week and during Bristol’s year as European Green Capital 2015, the conference will be opened by keynote […]