Forget your carbon footprint

Okay, that’s a bit of a ‘clickbaity’ title so I’d better elaborate.

Hopefully you’re already trying to minimise the carbon footprint of your business and your home life but, once you’ve made the main changes, there are diminishing returns.

This is where we’re at now with a paperless, remote business minimising travel and using public transport or waking/cycling where appropriate. Yes, there’s more to be done but it is getting harder so we’re offsetting the rest while we work on it and switching our attention to our digital footprint.

The downside of being a paperless business is that we do everything digitally so here are some quick wins that we recommend to reduce your digital footprint.

1. Internally, share files rather than creating separate copies. We us Onedrive and Sharepoint.
2. Externally, use a secure portal or send links to online files rather than attaching copies to your emails
3. Paper books are potentially better than digital ones as they tend to be shared multiple times whereas it is hard to do this with e-books. Great news for those who still love the touch and feel of ‘real’ books rather than a Kindle.

I’d love to hear from anybody else who is working on their digital footprint.