Greening Travel & Tourism

Travel and tourism can be a great force for good, yet can cause massive environmental and socioeconomic damage. Alongside tackling transport impacts, the big issues are local procurement, engagement with the local community and with guests, employment conditions, and minimising water and energy consumption and waste production at the destination.

Water Conservation

As extraction of fresh water begins to exceed supply in ever more locations, water efficiency and equity are ever more urgent issues for business and communities to deal with. We have experience of water reduction and behaviour change research.

Behaviour Change

Providing the rationale and the means for environmental or ethical behaviour change is not necessarily enough. Individual motivation is also required. We can help assess target audiences, and develop effective means to bring about behaviour change, especially using the highly effective community-based social marketing.

Environmental Management Systems (EMS)

Few businesses these days can afford to be without an EMS. We can help you choose the best type for your needs, or design one specifically for you, and then provide ongoing support in its implementation. The economic rewards can be very considerable indeed.

Climate Change

With extensive experience in the mechanisms, causes and politics of climate change, we are well placed to help you reduce your greenhouse gas emissions and to cost-effectively offset those emissions you cannot avoid.

Procurement & Supply Chain Management

Improving the environmental and economic credentials of your products and services often means knowing far more about how materials have been produced and processed before they reach you. We can help with careful procurement and management of your supply chain.

Product Certification

Independent credible certification of a product and process will confer much greater confidence in the minds of customers and ensure that policies are implemented. However, there are however many pitfalls that we can help you avoid.

Waste Prevention

With many years' experience in this area we can help you research, plan and implement a cost-saving waste prevention initiative on almost any scale.

Sustainable Business Management

The environmental, social and ethical issues that business must address are as diverse and complex as they are unavoidable. They require a careful and professional like almost no other aspect of management. We have twenty years' experience of sustainable business management at all scales to offer.

Plant Conservation & Sustainable Horticulture

These are issues in which Mike Read Associates has a particularly well-established expertise base and considerable practical and theoretical experience. We launched The Alliance for Sustainable Horticulture.