GreenEdge
Who We Are
GreenEdge is a specialist consultancy based in Cape Town which brings over 20 years experience in the environmental sustainability field to developing effective communications, marketing and training programmes for clients. These create awareness, encourage behaviour change, and build environmental sustainability in companies and communities. Past and present clients include Woolworths, Distell, City of Cape Town, Waste Control, Paarl Municipality, SA Metal, Santam.
Services | Products We Offer
Our Services
• We develop awareness programmes using internal communication channels to raise environmental awareness, understanding and engage staff in sustainability programmes
• We design external communication campaigns to market sustainable products and services to existing and new customers.
• We mentor management and staff on the business greening process to help set their company on the journey to environmental sustainability.
• We plan and manage public education and social marketing campaigns that result in measurable community behaviour change.
Our Products
Business Day-Nedbank 'Greening Your Business' e-learning course
This accessible, comprehensive self-study course provides the why and how to plan and implement business greening in South Africa. As an interactive CD-ROM it includes the following:
• background to sustainability, building the business case, measuring eco-footprint and baselines, team-building, implementation, eco-efficiency, innovation, relevant legislation, marketing, reporting.
• 24 case-studies, self-assessment questions, certificate of participation, glossary, further reading and videos in a six-module easy-reading e-book format.
‘Greening Your Business' is developed by GreenEdge, published by Business Day, sponsored by Nedbank and supported by WWF-SA. Powered on the VirtualBook®/Eduflex platform.
Each order has the option of free 6-week or 12-week subscriptions to the e-mail editions of either Business Day or Financial Mail respectively.
Click here to order your copy of ‘Greening your Business'
| Contact Details |
| 4 Nuttall Road |
| Observatory |
| Cape Town |
| 021 448 8123 |
Press Room
17 Nov 2011
An ongoing shift in awareness about the environment and sustainability is creating substantial new business opportunities. Many companies in South Africa want to take advantage of the opportunities by going the greener route but may be uncertain how to go about it.
22 Aug 2011
As the year moves into its second half, the signs for deepening sustainability into business are not auspicious. Still, the call remains as urgent. Weather effects of global warming continue; unemployment is at all-time highs. However, investments are increasing in resource-efficiencies and cleaner, innovative technologies. With world governments gathering around climate change in Durban at the end of the year, are there opportunities for a growing greener economy based on more caring values?
22 Aug 2011
The friendship between Presidents Zuma and Sarkozy formed in the lead-up to the Copenhagen in 2009 conference has borne fruit in the R12.7 billion loan from French banks for growing Eskom capacity. It may be additionally beneficial if it extends to discussions investigating the sustainability of economic growth itself.
Economics is a sub-set of ecology (not the other way round).
22 Aug 2011
Life on Earth began about 3.5 thousand million years ago. Species started evolving in a slow progression of trial and error as they adapted in their increasing variety to the changing ecosystems in which they lived.
22 Aug 2011
Get into the recycling routine. Your action makes a difference!
Nature knows no waste. Nor should we
22 Aug 2011
Reduce. Re-use. Recycle. Stop Littering...
If you are not recycling, you're throwing it all away
22 Aug 2011
Sourcing and processing new materials for products takes heavy toll on our environment.
22 Aug 2011
And Leave them a cleaner planet
Start Composting and Turn food Scrap into food for the soil
22 Aug 2011
Its a waste to throw away vegetables and fruit peelings, left overs and food scraps when you can feed your soil with them instead...