Resources
In this section you can find previous Ecolease newsletters, latest finance industry trends, possible business opportunities and eco-friendly advice and resources. Whilst we will endeavour to update our information regularly, some of the grants or tenders provided in earlier e-news editions may be closed or finished.
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Past newsletters:
Issue 4, November 2009: Sustainability – a brief overview and useful knowledge
The theme of our latest e-newsletter is sustainability, a word that seems to be on most social commentators, corporate CEO’s and politicians lips. Interestingly, the word was institutionally recognised over twenty years ago by the United Nations through the adoption of Brundtland Commission recommendations, which basically stated that any future development should “…meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.*
Here in Australia, it is being politically driven through topics such as climate change (including carbon tax and trading scheme), water mismanagement (Murray-Darling Basin), and general environmental protection.
For the SME, considerations regarding sustainability and climate change may sooner, rather than later, be undertaken from an economic perspective as a $$$ value is potentially placed on carbon which, in turn, could effect the cost of all products and services.
Below is a list of tags with links covering a range of sustainability topics that may assist you and your business with some up and coming sustainable challenges.
Sustainable Business Government Grants Climate Change Action Fund
Ecological Overview Green Building Fund Re-tooling for Climate Change
Issue 3, September 2009: In The Spot Light
Government Business Opportunities: Tenders
Have you ever considered tendering for a Government or government agency project? Click on the following local, state and federal links to upcoming tenders…
AUST NSW ACT QLD SA VIC TAS NT & finally Tenders.Net – Australasia
Sustainable Business Opportunities: Re-tooling for Climate Change:
The Re-tooling for Climate Change program will help small and medium sized Australian manufacturers reduce their environmental footprint, through projects that improve the energy and/or water efficiency of their production processes. The program provides grants of between $10,000 and $500,000, up to a maximum of half of the cost of each project. Read More >>>
Green building fund – The Green Building Fund ($90m over 5 years) aims to reduce the impact of Australia’s built environment on green house gas emissions, by reducing the energy consumed in the operation of existing commercial office buildings. Read more >>>
Issue 2, August 2009: In the Spotlight
A good newsletter is a useful news:
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Ecolease joins Digital Pacifics Web Hosting Affiliation Program with the aim of supporting budding entreprenuers:
If you, through our recommendation, sign up with Digital Pacific to host your website, we will direct our monetary reward to NGO’s that support local enterprise within impoverished communities. Learn more >>>, or go straight to the appropriate site by clicking here.
Speech – Challenges for Economic Policy:
Glenn Stevens of the Reserve Bank of Australia addresses The Anika Foundation Luncheon on Challenges for Economic Policy. Read more >>>.
