Green Care
Care
Mother Nature is our endless inspiration. At Dinosaur Designs we take responsibility for our environmental footprint and support environmentally sustainable initiatives.
All our products are handmade in Sydney
Dinosaur Designs pieces are all hand made with love and care in our studio.
We are a climate friendly company and offset all our emissions with Climate Friendly
For 2007/2008 we have offset over 100 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions with www.climatefriendly.com and became a 100% climate neutral company. We have purchased renewable energy credits that offset our greenhouse gas emissions associated with flights, car use and freight.
Dinosaur Designs has been audited and accredited by CitySwitch (formally 3CBD)
This program is run by the City of Sydney and the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC). Launched in February 2005, the Initiative engages with commercial office tenants to educate, promote and assist them to implement simple-to-achieve stationary energy efficiency every hour of every day, reducing the CO2 emissions attributed to climate change. For more information log on to www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/cityswitch
We are part of the City of Sydney Green Leaders Program
The City of Sydney Green Leaders Program is a sustainability program for small to medium business in Sydney.
The aim of the program is to help businesses improve their environmental performance; reduce their operating costs and resource use.
As part of the program, Dinosaur was assessed on its energy, water and waste consumption and then recommendations made on how we could improve the levels.
In 2008 Dinosaur Designs completed its first Green Leaders program and we are 75% more efficient than the industry average.
We use Green electricity providers
We run our studio and stores on Green Energy options that do not generate any greenhouse gases. In Australia with Origin Energy which is generated from solar, wind and hydro sources. In New York with ConEdison Solutions which is composed of run-of-river hydro power and wind power.
Our studio recycles all paper
We have always recycled all paper in our studio to try and save mother nature's beautiful trees.
We use DHL for the transportation of our products.
DHL has recently committed to reducing its carbon footprint by 30 percent by 2020.
Our studio recycles glass, cans and plastic
In the day to day running of our offices, stores and production studio, we recycle all paper products, plastic, glass, and aluminium. It is important to us to make the most of man made resources, and re use whatever we can.
We use recycled paper products wherever possible
We use 100% post-consumer recycled paper for our catalogues and minimum 80% recycled Australian paper for our office printing. We use soy based ink and waterless printing for our catalogues. We buy recycled toilet paper. Our retail packaging is made from recycled paper whenever possible. We are conscious to use minimal packing supplies and whenever possible we will reuse boxes and post packs.
We reuse printer cartridges and donate all used computers and printer cartridges to Planet Ark or Reverse Garbage
We refill printer cartridges instead of buying new ones.
We use environmentally sensitive cleaning products
It is important to us not to pollute the water.
We recycle our water used in production
We re-use the small amount of water that is used in our production process.
We use low energy tri-phosphor light globes
We use energy-saving lighting systems wherever possible.
We have had a studio energy and water audit to reduce our consumption We provide Fair Trade organic coffee in the studio for staff and guests We buy Australian made
We try to buy locally wherever possible to limit the emissions given out by travel and freight.
We do our best to provide a happy and creative work environment for all our team
Amongst our community of staff, family, friends and customers we encourage and initiate environmentally friendly action and we welcome informed and creative ideas about how we might further reduce our environmental footprint.
