Eagle Intermedia Publishing Ltd. - environmental policy

ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT

Given that the scientific evidence for global warming now appears to be overwhelming and that the long term consequences for life on the planet are potentially catastrophic, Eagle Intermedia Publishing Ltd. believes that it is the responsibility of business as well as the individual citizen to ensure that the harmful effects of "non-returnable" emissions of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels) are minimised and/or offset as appropriate.

Pollution due to air travel is seen to be a significant part of the problem (at least as far as transport is concerned), and Eagle Intermedia Publishing Ltd. believes that the polluting effects of business and leisure air travel should therefore be minimised. Where air travel cannot be avoided the company supports the concept of "carbon neutrality" by making payments and providing practical assistance to charity schemes and other initiatives devised to help offset the pollution caused by such activities (e.g. by planting trees which should [at least temporarily] remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere), and would urge other businesses and individuals to consider doing likewise.

Information about the amounts of carbon dioxide produced by flying and other polluting activities (as well as how to make donations to organisations whose schemes can help offset its effects) can be found on the following external website(s)* - which are listed in (approximate) alphabetical order:

Carbon Balanced (initiative from the World Land Trust)
Carbon and Climate Fund (from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust)
Carbon Footprint
Carbon Neutral (scheme from the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust)
The Carbon Neutral Company
Carbon Offsets
The Carbon Trust
Climate Care (site includes online carbon dioxide emissions calculator)
Global Cool
Equiclimate
Pure Trust
Sustainable Travel
Target Neutral (initiative for UK vehicle users from BP)
Treeflights
UK Energy Saving
World Land Trust (protecting rainforest and other threatened wildlife habitats worldwide)

Further information about recycling, carbon neutrality and other environmental business issues can also be found on the following website(s)* - which are listed in (approximate) alphabetical order:

Chimera - Beco
Freecycle (recycling network scheme)
Gold Standard (accreditation system for carbon offset schemes)
NetRegs (advice on environmental regulation for UK small businesses)

The company advocates homeworking and would urge similar businesses to shift operations to the internet wherever it is possible and practical to do so. Such a policy should ensure that staff do not have to make time-wasting commuter journeys (which produce pollution and which are undoubtedly a major source of congestion and frustration on the overcrowded British roads).

Eagle Intermedia is also interested in local conservation issues (especially in the nearby Yorkshire Dales) and has helped with local tree planting initiatives. The company is also a supporter and corporate member of the Yorkshire Dales Society - besides being affiliated to C.P.R.E. (the Campaign to Protect Rural England) at the national level.

[* = Please note that the above links refer to external websites whose contents and schemes are not necessarily endorsed or recommended by Eagle Intermedia.]