Step up to energy saving

May 13 2008 by Sue Scott, Evening Gazette

BUSINESSES across the Tees Valley are shrinking their carbon footprints and persuading others to follow in their tracks.

Turn-out at events such as Stockton Borough Council’s recent carbon reduction breakfast, which served up simple ideas for energy saving to more than a hundred bleary-eyed delegates, demonstrate just how far the environmental lobby has come in bringing firms on side.

Stockton, the only Tees Valley council among 40 involved in the Local Authority Carbon Management Group, says the real incentive for business to get on board is financial benefit in a climate of inexorably rising energy costs. But one small business step can lead to a huge environmental leap for mankind.

Next month sees another two significant events in the carbon reduction calendar - World Environment Day on June 5, which takes a lower carbon economy as its theme this year, and our own Renew, Reuse, Recycle event for corporate supporters of the Gazette’s well established environment campaign, on June 4.