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Clearly, we should all adopt more sustainable practices in all aspects of our lives if we want to extend the life of our planet and ensure that it remains a perfect home for humans.

But aside from all the ethical and environmental concerns, are there also benefits for me as a business to go green? The answer is yes, and in this Notion we will show you what those are.

Save money in a long term

Going green is not just about ecology, environmental protection, and sustainable practices, it's also about cost savings, which is what every company strives for. Here are some examples of how sustainable practices help you to save money:

• Switching to LED light bulbs: You may invest more at first, but in the long run this simple step will minimise your electricity consumption and bills accordingly.
• Going paperless: Less paper, less money spent on it. It also allows you to save on printing materials and furniture.
• Water dispensing systems: This way, you'll save money in bottled water whose containers are not always recycled.
• Buying second-hand furniture: This action will reduce the cost of your furniture by half and contribute to avoid landfill waste.
• Remote work for your employees: In this way, you help reduce your carbon footprint and lower your office costs: you no longer have to commute, less paper waste is produced, and less electricity is consumed. For example, the small American company “Planning Pod” opted to make its employees work from home half of the week. This way, apart from saving money on commuting and reducing the impact driving has on the environment, they also found out that employees work more when they can manage their own timetable. Moreover, they have been able to save money and space in the office, reducing rental and internet costs.
• Avoid unnecessary travel, especially flying: Often, even if we work on digital project, we travel a lot: commute to work, visit customers and fly to conferences, meetings etc. Reducing or even eliminating air travel is an efefctive way to reduce the carbon footprint and travel costs of a company.
• Sustainable web design: When it comes to your digital project, we have already learned that sustainable web design improves your SEO performance and page speed upload, as well as user experience, all of which will lead to increasing your number of customers. Another significant way of saving is hosting. Most hosting plans charge for the amount of server space plus the number of monthly users or bandwidth. When you reduce the size of your site, you save server space while reducing bandwidth and requests. Companies that self-host require smaller data centres and save on energy bills.

All in all, the benefits of being environmentally friendly in your business are related to reducing costs and waste at the same time that you are helping the environment. You can align purpose and profit in order to move forward.
Will you be the next one go a step further?