Sustainability

A little birdie recently visited our office and told us about Honest Coffee Company which sells biodegradable coffee capsules.

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Cloud Office were proud to sponsor the award for Cloud Innovation at this years New Zealand Bookkeeping Associations Conference.

We sponsored this award as part of our commitment to sustainability. It provided a platform for us to encourage our fellow bookkeepers to think more about and put in place sustainable practices in theirs and their clients businesses.

…and the winner is: Julie East – Calculated Advantage.

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Xero is moving from Rackspace to AWS to enable future growth – what does this mean for clean data?

What is AWS?

AWS is Amazon Web Services. They provide cloud platform services to companies like Netflix, Airbnb, Expedia, Adobe and many, many more.

Are AWS committed to sustainability?

Yes, they have a long-term commitment to achieve 100% renewable energy usage for their global infrastructure footprint. Click here to read about their Sustainability plans.

They aren’t ranking too well yet however, about middle of the pack – As of April 2015, they were at 25% which isn’t so good – but was neck and neck with Rackspace. AWS aim to reach 40% by the end of 2016 – which is huge improvement, but there is still a huge amount of room for improvement. For example, in the first half of 2015 – Apple was at 100%, Facebook were at 49%, Google was at 46%.

Where can I read more?

Click to view Greenpeace’s 2015 Click Clean Report.

Or, download it here:
Clicking Clean – May 2015 Report

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In an effort to find better ways of dealing with unwanted waste, I’ve found Starship Foundations website appealing for mobile phones.

Starship Foundation remove and destroy SIM cards, then wipe information off the handsets. Most mobile phones still have a useful life and are refurbished and resold into third world countries. Phones that can no longer be used are broken down and recycled.

Every old mobile that is recycled helps to prevent hazardous, toxic substances from entering our precious environment.

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Glennis wrote the an article for WorkflowMax’s blog about managing flexible staff.  Click here to read part one, part two will follow.

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See below for the long-list finalists for the Community Impact Awards at the Sustainable Business Network Awards for Katalyst’s work creating our Cloud Office site – to help bookkeepers and business owners to deliver more profit, using less paper.

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• AgriSea NZ Seaweed Ltd
• Gourmet Night Market (Tenacity Ltd)
• Fonterra
• Headlands
• Katalyst Office Management Ltd
• Peoples Coffee
• Sustainable Coastlines
• Waikato Regional Council
• Wilkinson Environmental Ltd

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