Enviro Action April Newsletter

 What is in this newsletter?
•    Teleconference – Interview with an auditor
•    How to save time, money and the environment
•    An opportunity to catch up with Jean in Melbourne from 29th April to May1
•    6 articles

Can you believe it is APRIL already?  Yikes!! What is happening to time?

Teleconference – Interview with an auditor
This will be held at 9.00 AM Adelaide Time – this is 30 mins behind Australian EST on Wed 10th April.  Time zones are easier than as everyone in Australia and New Zealand is OFF daylight saving and North America is ON.   
I have had some frustrations with a couple of different teleconference companies and I am still finalising a really reliable one.  Once I have this, hopefully by Thursday or Friday, I will send you the details.  I will also record the call so those of you who miss out can still listen.  Email me your names or contact me on the Contact form on this link so I can get the MP3 recording to you as soon as possible.

How to save time, money and the environment
I help people to start helping their business using MIND MAPPING.  Sounds strange and I know that some people think I am a little loopy when I get them to draw a star in the middle of a blank page but try it!  The process really works!  You draw a line out to every activity to you in your business, and include the office, storage, purchasing etc.  Then look at each activity in more detail and draw extra lines.  This is illustrated in the Green Jumpstart Kit and you can get this by logging into this link.   If you received this before this year or haven’t seen it at all get the latest version.  You will remember more with mind-mapping than you do by making a list.

Once you know everything you do, you can start to manage those activities that can cause problems.  I suggest that you work on the high risk things first and you will start preventing problems, saving time, money and helping the environmental things you identified.

The trick is to keep everything simple and the tools we use in the training courses help you to do this.

Another very useful trick to help you find enough time to work on your business is to decide what is important and what is urgent.  The more time you spend doing IMPORTANT THINGS before they get urgent the less time we need to spend in what I call the chaos state where everything is both urgent and important. The way to do this is to avoid doing things that appear to be urgent but are not really important to you.  They may be someone else’s priority.

An opportunity to catch up with Jean in Melbourne from 29th April to May1
I have an Enviro Action stand at the Carbon Expo in the Melbourne Exhibition Building on those 3 dates and would love to meet any Melbourne people.  If you are going to be there or think there is someone in Melbourne who would find this interesting please let me know by email because I have some invitations that I can send to you.

Here are the links to the latest articles on the Enviro Jean Blog

Drought, interstate squabbling and the River Murray

The Murray at Murray Bridge, in South Australia, is currently 35cm below sea level and is to drop around 50cm lower by the end of April.

Meantime, wheat crops are being planted off the Darling plus irrigated, cotton and rice which uses enormous amounts of water for less $s/Litre of water.

OK Victoria finally signed up - so what?

The Victorians finally agreed to hand over management of the Murray to a single authority BUT

• The deal cost $BILLION
• No more water will go into the Murray from Victoria until 2011!  Read more.....

The Arctic & Antarctic are warming and polar bears and penguins at risk.

The latest news is that in the Antarctic, the temperature is rising five times faster than elsewhere. Many of the penguin colonies are under threat. It was really sad watching film of penguins with eggs surrounded by soft snow melt that was drowning the eggs. A new situation the parent birds had no behaviour to cope with.  We all know by now that polar bears are becoming endangered as their ice shelf disappears.  Read more...

At present the world seems to have gone mad on varying time zones. I have read disturbing figures that question whether it actually does save power. If you take into account the time, power and effort put into programming all the clocks, flight time tables, mobile phones etc for a constantly changing time situation I would gravely doubt it! It was worse than Y2K yesterday!  So much of our lives now are based on computers and software and writing that that software to cope with whimsical changes that differ all over the place is costly in energy terms as well and time and money.  Read more.....

We need a combination of awareness, behavioural change, and some technology.  The problem is our habits and our resistance to change and this is where technology helps and the simple, low cost technologies that help us change our habits does already exist.  Read more.....

Earth Hour

While we need to think along these lines for more than 1 hour a year, I was very disappointed with Adelaide’s effort. I live on the second floor of an 8 storey apartment building and I went out to look over Adelaide and saw NO evidence that our Government or businesses had made any effort. The lights of Adelaide looked exactly the same as usual.  The power use did go down by 3% but  Read more.....

Kindest regards

Jean Cannon
Helping business build effective management systems to save money and grow
It is easy to be green

Winner 2007 South Australian Seafood Industry Training Award in recognition of training excellence

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please contact me on jean@enviroaction.com.au.

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