Refuse-Reuse-Reduce-Recycle

Purchasing
All stationery is recycled/FSC within the limits of available technology.
Where possible a recycled option is made available for all print clients.

Energy and water saving and waste reduction
We keep energy use low by turning off all electrical equipment and lighting when not in use.
Keep water usage to a minimum.
Re-use rather than dispose of resourses whenever possible and continue a strict recycle policy.

Travel
Business travel is kept to a minimum.
No commuting is done as our service is provided from a home office.
Most business communication is possible via phone or email negating the need for travel.

Ethical Policy
Green Cottage Design support businesses that promote the local and wider community, produce local and organic products and use methods of working which are beneficial to the environment.
We do not support or provide service to businesses who:
test cosmetic or household products on animals
extract or produce fossil fuels
manufacture tobacco
employ intensive farming techniques
are involved in the fur trade
promote pornographic or offensive material
propogate extreme religious or political agendas

Green Cottage Design - Green Website Hosting

Green Cottage use eco friendly, CO2 neutral web hosting.

The hosting service providers utilise either wind, water and solar power in accordance with the Renewable Energy Certification System (RECS) or for database driven sites strict carbon offset.

Green policy Green Cottage Design recognises that our work may have a direct or indirect effect on the local, regional and global environment. We are committed to reducing any harmful effects on the environment and promoting the understanding of sustainability in its broadest context.

Green Cottage Design - Plant a Tree Initiative

Green Cottage Design are reinforcing their green ethos by planting and dedicating indigenous, organically grown tree saplings to every new website they design as part of their company environmental policy.

As a member of the Sustainable Tourism Business Network for the Forest of Bowland, itself an area of outstanding natural beauty, we wanted to give something back to the local community and help to reinvest in the natural environment at the same time. Many trees in the area around Sabden and Pendle Hill were chopped down and used for the war effort in World War II. Our first trees will be planted on Remembrance Day 2009 in memory of the region’s people who gave their lives to this country.

Green Cottage Design would like to thank local farmer Bobby Gill of Cockshotts Farm, Sabden was only too pleased to offer the planting site on Pendle Hill in support of this very worthy initiative.