Gaia Blog

The Sustainability agenda is becoming ever more complex and demanding in line with its increasing significance in creating business advantage.  High flying organisations recognise the link between environmental performance and business success, with the inevitable result of raising the expectations on sustainability professionals.  At the same time a conveyor belt of new legislation is threatening to expose [...]

GAIA believes the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme is a good thing but would like it to be simplified. Just a year into the launch of the CRC, many have called to dump the initiative due to it’s complexity and the cost of compliance. Some also say the CRC league tables are ineffective [...]

So this is it, 2012 is ‘the big year’ where real energy reduction success will be revealed in the CRC League Tables and energy price rises bite further into profit margins. There’s no better time to drive that initiative forward and make those reductions. To get you started here are two tips to consider. 1. [...]

One of the greatest challenges for businesses is engaging their staff within the energy saving program. When achieved the next challenge is to sustain these messages. Our 5 top tips to create a sustainable energy saving message: 1) Create a team to lead the initiative from diverse parts of your business. 2) Identify good ‘connectors’ [...]

Gaia Theory Gaia Theory asserts that living organisms and their inorganic surroundings have evolved together as a single living system that greatly affects the chemistry and conditions of Earth’s surface. Scientists believe this “Gaian system” self-regulates global temperature, atmospheric content, ocean salinity, and other factors in an “automatic” manner. Originally proposed by James Lovelock as [...]