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25th Biennial Conference Last updated 28 July 2010  |
"Conference Innovators Limited meets the requirements of carboNZeroCertTM certification having measured its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in compliance with ISO 14064-1, committed to managing and reducing its emissions and neutralised the remaining unavoidable emissions in respect of the operational activities of its organisation". Authorised by: GM Technical, carboNZero programme, Landcare Research Joy Mehlhopt, our inhouse carboNZero champion, has been working on this project for 19 months. She has completed the surveys, sourced and collated piles of data and liaised closely with Landcare Research's carboNZeroCertTM programme to finally achieve the carboNZeroCertTM certification. Joy notes that the length of time taken is mostly due to frequently "parking the project" due to other work pressures. But this is just the beginning. The carboNZero certification is valid for 12 months, so we will be audited and assessed every year by an independant auditor to make sure we maintain the right to carboNZeroCertTM small enterprise certification. This will require an ongoing commitment from the entire CI team. But for now, it is time to celebrate this achievement!  Cheers to our CarboNZero achievement! 11 May 2009 05 March 2009 29 January 2009 December 2008 The CI Christmas cards this year have been printed on 100% recyclable paper. 17 November 2008 As we are coming to the end of our busy season - it is now time for CI to reassess their green processes after the past 9 months. We will be looking at our progress and see if we can identify areas that we can improve on. 30 June 2008 Well, a decision had to be made...the worms just weren't keeping up! We have decided that "self responsibility" will be the course of action for our in-house green waste. Everyone now takes home their own food scraps for responsible disposal. So it is goodbye to the worm farm...until the day comes when "commercial worms" can be farmed! 11 June 2008 CI opens a business account with Green Cabs. Green Cabs has a fleet of Hybrid Toyota Prius cars that have been designed to reduce the amount of pollution and to maximize fuel efficiency. 21 April 2008 The fun begins – the worm farm is installed in the carpark. All foodscraps from the kitchen are being placed into benchtop containers and fed to the worms on a regular basis. We are yet to find out how much they can eat – perhaps we can use them to shred some of our papers as well? Double siding photocopying is to be encouraged via the use of a prompt at the photocopier which also provides step by step instructions for this process. 10 April 2008 NZAEP Seminar on Environmental Sustainability – attended by a CI Director. 9 April 2008 The first stationery and kitchen/bathroom supplies orders are made using the “as green as possible” mantra when selecting goods. The kitchen now boasts eco-friendly dishwashing liquid, the bathroom – earth-friendly toilet paper. The stationery department now boasts recycled “post it's”. A staff member has researched courier packs and found some that are biodegradable. As stocks of the plastic options are used up they will be replaced with this option. Print Material – discussion around setting up requests for quotes from printers that include ‘green’ options. Two clients – Local Government New Zealand and The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners have their registration brochures printed on Ecosl2 paper 100% recycled post consumer, FSC, certified pulp, process chlorine free, 5 star in the Government 3 star rating system using vegetable oil based inks. Satchels made from recycled plastic bottles are ordered for LGNZ even though they are more expensive than other options. 3 April 2008 2 April 2008 28 March 2008 27 March 2008 March 2008 The decision has been made and staff have committed to the process - where to from here?
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