no cost/easy actions
- Attend one of the Council’s Create Your Own Eden composting workshops
- Plant a deciduous tree to shade sun-facing windows during summer
- Water plants at night or early in the morning when temperatures & evaporation are lowest
- Use your lawn clippings as mulch to reduce evaporation from the soil
- Replace synthetic fertilisers with organic fertlisers
- Get rid of garden pest plants
- Use compost on your office garden
- Give locally produced/grown food or native plant seeds and/or seedlings as gifts
- Use caterers who use food that is sourced locally and grown organically
some cost/medium effort actions
- Support a local seed savers group
- Hold a team building day that contributes to a practical conservation plan
- Use organic weed control on your business grounds
- Plant a fruit or nut tree
- Use mulch & compost to reduce evaporation & ease stress on plants (as above)
- Choose plants and trees which are eco-sourced from your region
- Use organic gardening techniques
- Replace the garden sprinkler system with drip irrigation around plant roots
- Use a push mower rather than an electric or petrol mower where possible
- Use office plants to clean air and remove volatile organic compounds
- Provide staff with bokashi bins to recycle their food scraps (change as above)
more cost/more effort actions
- Donate gardening tools, seedlings, trees etc to local community gardens
- Help your neighbours/community set up a vegetable garden
- Give staff time off to take part in tree plantings, work with non-profit organizations and provide free professional advice to community groups
- Establish a sponsorship programme to support community groups dedicated to mitigating or adapting to climate change
- Sponsor an open orchard in your neighbourhood
- Adopt a threatened local habitat, plant or animal species & support its rehabilitation
- Install a greywater systems in your office garden
- After reducing emissions as much as possible, offset the remainder through gold standard carbon credits and native tree reforestation programmes
