Bioregional

Our 2023/24 Impact Review is here! 🎉 With a foreword from Sue Riddlestone OBE, it covers last year's incredible efforts from our fabulous team. Read it here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dTkGiu9C Our purpose – as a charity and social enterprise – is to work with partners to find and implement ways we humans can all live happy, healthy lives within the natural limits of our one planet, while also leaving half the Earth for the rest of nature to thrive. Together, we create inspiring solutions for the ways in which we do business, how we make the products we all buy, and how we plan and build the places where we live and work. Last year we: 🏘️ led an industry campaign backed by more than 250 organisations to set a greater standard for UK homes 💼 supported 33 organisations to develop and deliver their sustainability strategies, sustainable product guidelines, carbon accounting, and net-zero roadmaps. These businesses collectively employ over 290,000 people, with a combined total turnover of over £23bn. 🏗️ worked with 13 developers and housebuilders on sustainability strategies for housing-led, mixed-use development. Collectively these could deliver over 5,000 sustainable homes, as well as over 100,000m2 of sustainable commercial or community space. 🏛️ supported 10 local authorities in their planning and policy work. Over the next decade, our work will help deliver approximately 9,000 sustainable homes per year as part of local authority growth plans. 🌍 welcomed four new One Planet Living® Leaders, taking the total to 32 gold-standard projects from around the world Thanks to all our change-making clients and partners. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/dTkGiu9C #Sustainability #Impact #NetZero #SustainableBusiness #BuiltEnvironment #OnePlanetLiving

6 benefits of scope 3 supplier engagement (and how our expert team does it) 🤝 Scope 3 supplier engagement is actively collaborating with your suppliers to improve sustainability, ethical practices, and overall performance within your supply chain. 🪴 By engaging with your suppliers, you can address various issues such as reducing carbon emissions, promoting responsible sourcing, and enhancing labour standards. 🌳 (Oh - if you don't yet know your scope 3 from your scopes 1 and 2 - check out the handy pic at the back of the slides below) If you didn't know already: your supply chain is a BIIIIIG deal. 🦖 Scope 3 emissions are where most of your carbon footprint sits. The supply chain usually accounts for around 75% of a company’s carbon footprint and can also contribute significantly towards an organisation’s nature impacts. 🦋 So, meeting net-zero targets means achieving significant reductions throughout your supply chain - you simply can’t get there without doing it. 📉🌍 Learn more about our unique approach to supply chain engagement here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dvnK-aj7 (or feel free to drop Stephanie Schlipper a message) 👋 #Scope3 #NetZero #SustainableBusiness #SupplyChain #CorporateSustainability

We are thrilled to share our work on the Kingsley Hall refurbishment project! 🏛️🌱 We teamed up with an amazing design team to breathe new life into this historic building for 1625 Independent People, a charity supporting young people facing homelessness, all thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Our role was to develop a sustainable vision and strategy for Kingsley Hall, a Grade II* listed building in Bristol. Using our #OnePlanetLiving🌍 framework, we collaborated with the brilliant team at 1625 Independent People to create a plan aligned with its mission and the local community's needs. It was so inspiring to work directly with the young people supported by 1625 to co-create the final strategy. Learn more about the project here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ebPHBTck If you're in Bristol / the South West then please check out (and support!) 1625 Independent People's Sleep Out fundraising event in November 🌙💤👉 https://lnkd.in/dz5aebwR Huge shout-out to our small but mighty gang of Sustainable Places superstars: Lewis Knight, Jo Mortensen, James Sheldon, Marina Goodyear, Nathan Hucks, Jess Daly, Nina Wallace (BA, MSc), Alex McCann, Thomas Russell 💚 and the awesome design team of PHD Building Advisory Limited, Clarkebond, Box Twenty Consulting Engineers, Gleeds and Childs Sulzmann Architects. #sustainability #regenerativedevelopment #socialimpact #architecture #engineering #bristol #charity #youth #homelessness

"5 things you need to know about the government’s proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework" - if you're into local planning and sustainability, then you need Lewis Knight's article in your life 👇👇👇

this from Katri Hastings 👇👇👇

Why does sustainable manufacturing matter? How do you get started? Join our free webinar in September to learn more.💡 We've teamed up with MIDASDX.COM to help manufacturers kick off their sustainability journey - full details here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eafQy-Wr Join Katri Hastings and Dave Roddis to discover how sustainability can benefit manufacturers across five key areas: 💷 Cost reduction 🚨 Risk management 🤝 Recruitment and retention of staff 🎯 Regulatory compliance and preparedness 💼 Access to capital We'll then take you through how to begin! All registrants will get a recording after, so sign up even if you can't make it live 👉 https://lnkd.in/eafQy-Wr About your expert speakers: Katri Hastings is a Senior Sustainability Consultant at Bioregional, a purpose-led sustainability consultancy. Bioregional has helped businesses transition to a sustainable future for more than two decades, and it supports companies on net zero, circularity, biodiversity, governance and wider ESG support. David Roddis is the Managing Director of MidasDX, a manufacturing consultancy focused on sustainability and digital maturity. Midas’s team of expert engineers all have extensive first-hand manufacturing and sustainability experience across various industries, including automotive, aerospace, chemical, food, and franchising.

"Meeting housing demands should not come at the expense of our natural ecosystems. In this critical moment, we must advocate for stronger, clearer policies within the NPPF that make net-zero homes the standard across the UK." - Lewis Knight's initial thoughts on the latest NPPF consultation 👇👇👇

What Martin Spiller said 👇👇👇

this from Munish Datta मुनीश दत्ता 👇👇👇

Why the UK’s industrial strategy must prioritise decarbonisation to deliver growth 🌱⚡ This week, Aldersgate Group published the first in a series of briefings outlining how the UK Government can deliver an effective industrial strategy with decarbonisation at its heart. As global competition to secure green investment increases, it highlights the urgent need for the UK to recapture a leadership position and create growth opportunities for domestic industry in tandem with emissions reductions 👉 https://bit.ly/3LKc5qr