The Sustainable Sidekicks are a sustainability and behaviour change consultancy with a mission to support and empower business owners, event managers and green champions have the greatest impact on reducing their impacts and increasing their engagement for the benefit of planet, people and responsible profit.
Values:
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The Sustainable Sidekicks value most:
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Which informs our business aims of:
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Issue statement:
The Sustainable Sidekicks identify that the world is facing a raft of interconnected social and environmental crises including:
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These are being exacerbated by financial greed, power and wealth inequalities from:
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Whilst the environmental sector has positive impacts it also has huge issues around:
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Business vision:Consultancy/social enterprise working remotely from overland locations with a low carbon online platform empowering environmental superheroes whilst funding rewilding projects and front-line grass roots projects
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Scope of policy:The Sustainable Sidekicks have defined the scope of the policy:
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2021 Commitments:
The Sustainable Sidekicks are committed to these Sustainable Development Goals and will report annually against them:
Environmental
Move to 100% green independent European hosting for all websites and
training content
Ideally avoiding large conglomerate servers and choosing verified energy provision
training content
Ideally avoiding large conglomerate servers and choosing verified energy provision
Reduce the online carbon footprint
As the largest and most tricky carbon impact of the business, an action plan will focus on reducing stored emails, unused and large files stored in the cloud
As the largest and most tricky carbon impact of the business, an action plan will focus on reducing stored emails, unused and large files stored in the cloud
- Follow the waste hierarchy and circular economy in all purchases to minimise waste
Focusing on prevention and reuse/second-hand before buying new. Any new items will then be chosen for their recycled content, reusability and recyclability. - Promote circular economy principles in all contracts and training
- Encouraging circular economy thinking to minimise waste, toxic material usage and reimagine the linear economy.
- Share behaviour change techniques to help environmental communication resonate outside of the eco echo chamber
Social
- Study and commit to break-down the issues of intersectional environmentalism
- Support young aspiring environmental and social campaigners
Provide 50 online training spaces a year for young people around the world, focusing on underrepresented groups within the environmental sector - Develop a mentoring service to support aspiring change makers
Offer volunteer mentoring for young people including continuing with the Catalyse Change programme
Financial
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This sustainability policy will be reviewed on an annual basis by the Head Sustainable Sidekick, Livvy Drake .
Signed .........................................
Date 15.01.2021
Date 15.01.2021
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