Want to do something about your Carbon Monster?

OXFORDSHIRE BUSINESS FIRST AND PARTNERS WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO JOIN:

The Carbon Monsters Project - helping businesses get to net-zero emissions

The Carbon Monsters Project is about helping small businesses take their first steps to reduce carbon emissions to net zero.

Imagine...

...you're driving to the office in the morning, and as you approach, you see a big black smoke cloud hanging like a vulture above the building.

You start to look around the office and you notice that there is black smoke bursting from the boiler room, engulfing the cars in the car park, the bins out the back, and even oozing from the food in the canteen.

Suddenly, the penny drops. All that black stuff is actually carbon, connected to everything within your workplace. As the thick fog crawls out from the building, the sky darkens, the vibrant colours of birds and trees grow dull, and people both inside and outside the building are coughing.

"I need to do something about all these emissions before it's too late!" you exclaim.

You look out of the window - horrifyingly, there's a carbon monster above every business as far as the eye can see.

You happen to notice that over one particular building, the menacing dark cloud seems to be shrinking and the blue sky and sunshine can be seen above. Below, you notice a group of people who are fighting their own cloud - and are winning. As well as defeating the monster, this business team seems healthier and happier, too.

You think to yourself, "I want to be like that business.”

If you want to be like that business and learn how you can tackle your own carbon monster, join our event, online;

Date: Thursday 7th April from 10am.

Location: Online, click on https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carbon-monsters-project-helping-businesses-get-to-net-zero-emissions-tickets-287924910157?utm-campaign=social%2Cemail&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=strongmail&utm-term=listing

Cost: Free

Speakers:

Our exciting line up of key note speakers includes:

• Sarah Jordan, founder of You Underwear (www.youunderwear.com)
• Sally Dear, founder of Ducky Zebra (www.duckyzebra.com)
• Oli Coles, founder of The Welba App (www.welba.app)
• Michael Buick, founder of Pegg Furniture (www.peggfurniture.com)
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And in addition we will be joined by Sara Le Roux - Reader in Applied Economics at Oxford Brookes Business School who will be telling us about research she's doing into how small and medium sized businesses are responding to the net-zero challenge.

Discussion:

We also want you to get the opportunity to talk with other likeminded entrepreneurs and business people so we've also lined up some facilitated discussion groups for you to join in. The groups will include:

• Reducing carbon emissions in your business accommodation - led by Richard Dorey from Energy Solutions Oxford.
• Reducing carbon emissions when moving people and products - led by Lewis Knight and Hannah Scott from Bioregional
• Reducing carbon emissions when designing products and services - led by Laura Gelder Robertson and Claire Snowdon.

Join us to find opportunities and partnerships in sustainable business. Take advantage of the huge demand generated by the worldwide drive to net zero carbon.

The Carbon Monsters event is a great chance to join the movement, learn ways to cut your energy costs and how to improve your carbon footprint to secure your place in the supply chains of the future.

Find out about practical solutions for:

• Energy
• Transport
• Buildings
• Products/Services
• Waste

Partners helping to organise the Carbon Monsters Project include:

• Bioregional (https://www.bioregional.com/)
• Energy Solutions Oxfordshire (https://www.energysolutionsoxfordshire.org/)
• Oxfordshire Business First (https://obfirst.org.uk/)
• Go Climate Positive (https://www.go-positive.co.uk/)
• Oxford Brookes Business School (https://www.brookes.ac.uk/business/)
• Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (https://www.oxfordshirelep.com/)
• Climate Change Coaches (https://climatechangecoaches.com/)
• Unipart (https://www.unipart.com/)
• Glow Innovation (www.glowinnovation.com)
• Thalia Carr Coaching (https://thaliacarr.co.uk/)
• Snowdon Consulting (www.clairesnowdon.com)
• John Karslake
• My Sales Guru International (www.mysalesguru.co.uk)

And don’t forget to forward this invitation to anyone you feel might benefit from attending the event, we want to be able to help as many businesses as possible.