What we said

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  We’ll engage with with the owners and management team in charge of our shared office space to promote the use of renewable energy in the building
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  We’ll keep our private office space as low-energy as possible - that means we’ll limit lights and gadgets to what’s really necessary

What we did

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  Despite the challenges we faced in obtaining the energy data for our WeWork office space, we successfully engaged with our new office providers to obtain energy data
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  Not a single new light in sight this year!

What we said

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  We’ll share a recommended energy supplier list with employees to encourage a swap to a company that’s generating its own energy or sourcing it from companies generating energy from renewable sources

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  We’ll look at ways to subsidise the difference if a Pawprint employee would still have to pay more than they did before switching to a green energy provider

What we did

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  We agreed to take the Uswitch Gold Standard energy tariffs as our recommended list - however, with current circumstances and ongoing market uncertainty we still don’t feel it’s the right time to push anyone to change suppliers until circumstances improve
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  As above, the market conditions aren’t conducive to implementing anything in this vein just yet

What we said

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  We’ll take a common sense approach and only buy electronic equipment for staff that is necessary for them to work
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  We’ll always strive to find repair options for any damaged or faulty equipment over buying new
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  When required we’ll buy second hand equipment for items such as work phones
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  We’ll make it known that every employee is responsible for taking care of their equipment
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  We’re committed to sending no company e-waste to landfill

What we did

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  We stuck to this mantra and formalised it in our Hardware Policy. Additional equipment such as monitors were only purchased for our remote Pawprinters who didn’t already have a home office set-up in place.
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  Luckily nothing broke to the extent that it needed major repair. We made a couple of trips to our local Apple store when laptops were acting funny, but managed to find a fix every time
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  All phones we’ve purchased for our product and tech teams to use for testing have been refurbished or even donated by staff and their networks
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  We centralised our official policies clarifying the appropriate use of technology to avoid damage and e-waste
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  We maintain our partnership with Junk It, a local organisation that collects, responsibly recycles or rehomes electronic equipment. We highlighted this in our internal E-waste Policy.

What we said

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  We’ll try to keep our deliveries to a minimum, and where we can we’ll send multiple deliveries at the same time in an effort to reduce the journeys required
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  We’ll always look for green delivery options such as electric vehicles, and for short deliveries (in and around Edinburgh) we will use the services of a local bicycle delivery company whenever possible.
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  Regarding Pawprint’s own merchandise, we won’t bulk buy or blanket sell, and we’re committed to using sustainable suppliers.

What we did

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  Having bulk bought a lot last year, we avoided several deliveries altogether
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  For local deliveries our first port of call is the awesome cargo bike service from Farr Out Deliveries.
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  We sent out very little merchandise, purchasing only a couple of props for client visits that themself support our mission to engage and educate the employee masses in sustainability

What we said

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  We’ll engage with our key suppliers in an attempt to identify and encourage ways to minimise the impact of their services

What we did

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  Celebrated the intro of Google Workspace’s carbon footprinting feature!

What we said

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  We’ll always favour travelling for work by train instead of individuals driving or flying
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  Where hotel stays are required, we’ll encourage sustainable choices and avoid extravagant, resource-heavy activities

What we did

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  We’ve upheld our no domestic flights policy and opted for direct flights over multiple short hauls when they were unavoidable.
  We know it’s not business travel, but we also wanted to give a shout out to one of our favourite and most paw-pular employee benefits: Slow Travel Days. These are two additional holidays available to anyone who chooses low-carbon transport to get to/from a holiday outside mainland UK, instead of a flight.
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  We manage all hotel bookings centrally (via TravelPerk) which helps maintain oversight and ensure adherence to our ethos. Wherever we can we’ll book hotels close to the location of particular events to minimise the need for further transport. We also promote the eco Actions you’ll find in the Pawprint platform; that means not forgetting to reuse those hotel towels!

What we said

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  We continued to promote plant-based, locally sourced foods, which came out in force during our August picnic celebrating the office move, catered by the wonderful Planet Kuku
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  Our 2022 festive dinner was a vegan Scottish tapas vibe, and it was braw!

What we did

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  Keep reminding Pawprinters of our increased plant-based expense budget within our Travel Policy, and use it as a talking point when speaking to clients or prospects to kick off the conversation around low-carbon choices.
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  Party on with the plants

What we said

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  If we need paper or plastic products for business and marketing purposes, we’ll seek out responsibly sourced materials from the greenest suppliers, reusing products as much as possible

What we did

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  We used local printers and shops for items like posters, business cards and banners, which brings the added advantage that we can walk to pick them up.

What we said

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  We’ll invest in reusable crockery for our office space, no more single use!

What we did

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  We became the proud owner of a set of conveniently Pawprint-coloured reusable bowls and plates