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Book: Easy Eco-auditing – “How to make your home and workplace planet friendly”
Book: Easy Eco-auditing – “How to make your home and workplace planet friendly”
Paperback published by Hamlyn’s Gaia Press, February 2008.
Reviewed by John Meakin, ACA Full review click here
Donnachadh McCarthy, is the UK’s top eco consultant”. from celebrities and charities to small buisnesses, Donnachadh has advised hundreds of people and organisations on how to eco audit their lifestyle and become greener. Donnachadh was the eco-auditor on the hit BBC2 series “It Is Not Easy Being Green, ITVS How Green is Your House” and Skys “Green Britain Week”. He is a freelance environmental journalist writing for The Independent and The Guardian. His home became one of the first homes in London to actually become climate positive.
This book provides a step-by-step guide to going green by the UK’s leading eco-auditor. It explains why going green matters and how to get started, including tips on identifying and overcoming bad habits and coping with feeling overwhelmed. The book breaks eco living down into easily managed chunks, including how to change your water usage habits, how to saying goodbye to your rubbish mountain, what you can do to help save and protect your natural environment, green cleaning principles and how to motivate your family, friends and colleagues. With advice on principles to follow both at home and at work, this is the one-stop eco guide everyone must own. Donnachadh’s ambition for this book is that it be the essential handbook for amateur activists to green up their school, workplace or home.
Prince Charles supports Accounting for Sustainability
“There was a time when we could say that there was either a complete lack of knowledge, or at least room for doubt, about the consequences for our planet of our actions. That time has gone. We now know all too clearly what we are actually doing and that we need to do something about it urgently. Better accounting must be part of that process.”
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Sustainability
What does ’sustainability’ mean to you? John Meakin, ACA
What does it mean to your employers if they are using the word as a genuine part of their business culture?
Or are they simply using it as ‘greenwash’?
‘Sustainable’ is a word that is now heard everywhere, but many people use it without stopping to think what it actually means and whether they are using it in the correct context.
In its broadest sense, sustainability is the ability to maintain balance of a certain process or state in any system.
The most widely accepted definition now seems to be that of the UN Commission on Environment and Development which in 1989 defined it as ‘Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’.
To enable the future existence of mankind as a civilised society, what is needed is ‘ecological sustainability’, i.e. the ability to live without depleting the resources of our home, planet earth.
It is clear that we are not now living in such a manner.
As Paul Hawken, co-founder of Smith & Hawken garden tools, says, “We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present and call it GDP”.
Is your company’s business ‘ecologically sustainable’? When searching for your new accountancy job, you could search using www.JustAccountancyJobs.com. For every CV registered with the site, JustAccountancyJobs will plant a tree in a sustainable rainforest through Plant-a-Tree-Today.org. Now that’s Green Accounting!
