Smart tools for business
Green Office Guide
The Green Office Guide helps you buy environmentally friendly office equipment and use it to reduce your operating and environmental costs, including greenhouse gas emissions. This guide has been produced as part of the National Appliance and Equipment Energy Efficiency Program supported by the Commonwealth, State and Territory governments.
To download a copy of the Green Office Guide visit the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts website.
Australian Building Greenhouse Rating Scheme
NABERS is a performance-based rating system for existing buildings. NABERS rates a building on the basis of its measured operational impacts on the environment, and provides a simple indication of how well you are managing these environmental impacts compared with your peers and neighbours. For further information visit theAustralian Building Greenhouse Rating (ABGR) website at www.abgr.com.au.
Resource Management & Eco-Efficiency Assessment Tool
The Queensland Environmental Protection Agency has developed a series of Excel spreadsheets that assist business to manage and improve their resource efficiency. Developed as part of their ecoBiz programme, this free stand alone tool consists of four spreadsheets.
To download the spreadsheets or get more information on ecoBiz, visit the Environmental Protection Agency's website.
Energy Smart Allies Program
The Energy Smart Allies Program aims to facilitate the development of the sustainable energy industry as a whole by linking the suppliers of sustainable energy products and services with customers of the same.
The Internet edition of the Energy Smart Allies Directory includes over 400 organisations in Australia that can provide energy efficient products and services that help improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. For further information visit www.energysmartallies.com.
Electrical Motor Solutions website
The Motor Solutions Online website provides comprehensive information and guidance, as well as practical information and tools, to assist in making the right choices about electric motors.
For further information visit the website at www.greenhouse.gov.au/motors.
Energy Smart Toolbox
This Toolbox brings together information, knowledge and resources relating to energy efficiency and energy management. It can be used as a step-by-step guide to managing energy throughout an organisation or as an information resource focussed on specific aspects of energy management and energy saving technologies.
The toolbox is available at www.energysmart.com.au/sedatoolbox.
Green Vehicle Guide
For the first time, potential car buyers will be able to go online to find out the environmental performance of new cars sold in Australia. The Green Vehicle Guide provides ratings on the environmental performance of new vehicles sold in Australia.
The site can be used to see how vehicles compare on greenhouse and air pollution emissions. For new car buyers, the site identifies the vehicle with the highest ratings which meets the purchasers needs.
Visit www.greenvehicleguide.gov.au to access the guide and for further information.
Further information
For further information about any of the tools listed above, contact Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland's Business Sustainability team by calling 07 3842 2244 or email eco@cciq.com.au.
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