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Wishing all our customers, suppliers and partners a happy Christmas and a prosperous new year.

On 27 September 2011 humanity exhausted nature’s budget for the year.  The planet has moved into environmental overdraft territory with little hope of balancing it’s budget this year. Nature, just like any corporation can only produce so many resources and absorb so much waste each year.  The problem is our demands on nature are exceeding [...]

dundrum shopping centre windows holding back the tide ….. Just about ….

Have you ever wondered how we got to where we are with regards to climate change?   This short animation takes a comical look back in time to when we first started to consume fossil fuels and traces how our appetite for fossil fuels has driven and been driven by consumerism.

Applegreen, Ireland’s largest independent forecourt retailer, which has 80 sites in Ireland and the UK, has signed a deal with Nootrol, the Irish green procurement firm to measure and track carbon emissions. Under the programme Applegreen will use Nootrol’s supply chain and green procurement management cloud computing service to collaborate, share and exchange sustainability and [...]

In this introductory video we’ll show you how to hit the ground running with Nootrol. This video will show you how to specify a full year worth of emission estimates from secondary sources using the Quick Footprint calculator. Later, when you’ve collected primary sources of data (e.g. Electricity, Gas and other bills) we’ll show you [...]

The latest release of the Nootrol application was rolled out yesterday with a significant overhaul in how emission activities are recorded and managed. Thanks to our user feedback we’ve been able to streamline the process of creating activity records and we’ve updated some other elements too. Reviewing and managing your activity records is now done [...]

  Nootrol has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Green Awards 2011 in three categories: The Green Supply Chain Award The Green Product / Service Award Additionally, Mark Kearns, Nootrol CEO has been shortlisted for the Green Entrepreneur Award. The 2011 Green Supply Chain Award is awarded to providers of supply chain solutions [...]

Last year, BT spent £12bn with tens of thousands of suppliers and, as a result, this new policy is expected to have a measurable impact on the number of firms in the UK reporting on their greenhouse gas emissions. BT Should be applauded for being one of the few UK based businesses taking the lead [...]

Carbon Accounting is the process of collecting, aggregating, converting and analysing greenhouse gas emissions to determine a carbon inventory or footprint.    Led by large businesses such as Bank of America, Proctor and Gamble, Tesco, and Walmart, and often starting with tier 1 suppliers, surveys of suppliers’ carbon inventories and efforts to reduce the same are [...]