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 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 to go for, 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. 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 have recently launched The Alliance for Sustainable Horticulture.