SustainabilityWorks Ireland

🌎 SW Wrapped 🌎 What a year it's been- thank you to everyone who has been a part of it!👏 📽️ Take a look back at some of our key moments from 2024 📽️ Laura Heuston Karen Deignan Aideen O'Hora Sharon Keilthy Ciara Murphy Dónall Hogan Paddy Molony Eoin Hallissey George Dempster Hannah Tyrrell Sheila Harte Kim K. Jillian Mahon Ron Immink

Looking for ways to be more sustainable this holiday season? Why not rethink your giving habits? 🎄 🧸 In this article our Associate Director Sharon Keilthy discusses the carbon footprint of the toy industry and some opportunities and challenges that companies in this space face when it comes to being more sustainable. 🌍 💡 Sharon says ‘things are moving in the right direction but more regulation is needed. As long as it is more expensive to do the right thing, and cheaper and easier to do the wrong thing, it’s clear what people will do.’ 💡 In order to tackle this problem Giorgia Anile, a PhD student at UCC has created the first digital toy exchange library, giving parents a platform to find, exchange or donate second hand toys free of charge to give them a longer lifespan. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dahpMDBN

Sharon Keilthy our Associate Director will be facilitating a (free!) Climate Fresk this Sunday in Dublin 2 from 14:00pm-17:00pm. ❓ What is a Climate Fresk? ❔ A climate fresk is a 3-hour long workshop and calls on participants' collective intelligence and creativity to identify the cause-effect relationship between the different components of climate change. 🌍 🤝 💡 Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eMZpx8T3

Our co-founder Laura Heuston will be on a panel as part of Sustainable Finance Week in Chartered Account House this Wednesday 27th November from 5-6pm 🎤 The panel will be talking through finance options available for SMEs and entrepreneurs which can facilitate business in action! 👏 🗒️ Sign up for the event here: https://lnkd.in/eUE4c5QY

On Wednesday night, the SW team enjoyed a fantastic meal together to welcome new members to our growing team. It was followed by a visit to the Climate Cocktail Club where we had the privilege of listening to passionate speakers discuss biodiversity and nature in Ireland. The cocktails were top notch too!! 🍸 🍃 Aideen O'Hora Laura Heuston Karen Deignan Sharon Keilthy Dónall Hogan Ciara Murphy Paddy Molony George Dempster Eoin Hallissey Hannah Tyrrell Sheila Harte Hometree Tom Popple

Sign up to register for Trinity College Dublin School of Engineering event "Navigating Climate Futures: Academic Contributions to Global Climate Action." Details below!

SustainabilityWorks’ journey to becoming a B Corp Certified business took time and teamwork. But it was worth it! In this article, SW Co-Founder Karen Deignan reflects on the experience. Here are some of the highlights 💡 :   1. Our B Corp journey began in Feb ‘23 when Karen and Kim took part in Ireland’s first B Leader training course. 📑 2. We submitted our completed B Impact Assessment 10 months later in Dec ’23. ✅ 3. Everyone was involved in preparing the information and evidence to support our submission. It was a real team effort. 🧑🧑🧒🧒 4. The assessment process left no stone unturned. Now we know why B Corp certification is so well respected – it’s hard to get! 📄 5. Having to demonstrate our Impact Business Model (IBM) made us document our ‘theory of change’ which was a great exercise and re-confirmed SW’s purpose and mission. 🌍 6. Beyond certification, B Corp has given us a structured framework to help us grow our business in the right way going forward – consciously and with intent. So that we can live up to our belief in ‘business as a force for good’. 🤝      Check out the article here: https://lnkd.in/gaB64yyT B Lab Ireland, B Lab Europe, Laura Heuston, Aideen O'Hora, Kim K., Ciara Murphy, Sharon Keilthy, Dónall Hogan, Paddy Molony, George Dempster, Hannah Tyrrell, Sheila Harte

🔊 📰 Big News!! We are delighted to announce that SustainabilityWorks is now a Certified B Corporation! 🎉 🎉 This was one of our goals for the business from day one, so we’re extremely proud to have reached this milestone. It aligns with our ethos as a mission-driven consultancy and our fundamental belief in business as a force for good.   ❔ What is a B Corp? ❔ Being B Corp Certified means that a company has been verified as meeting B Lab’s high standards for social and environmental impact, that it has made a legal commitment to stakeholder governance (i.e. taking all stakeholders into account in decision-making), and that it demonstrates accountability and transparency via its public B Corp profile. You can see SW’s profile here: https://lnkd.in/ecW6JjQz We’re really excited to be part of the B Corp community in Ireland and globally. We’ll share some reflections on our B Corp journey in our next post! B Lab Ireland, James McManus, Chloe Healy, Claire Mac Evilly, B Lab Europe, Nico Gemio, Sarah Garcia, Karen Deignan, Laura Heuston, Aideen O'Hora, Kim K.

📖 🔊 Here's our first sectoral deep dive into the Irish Climate Tech Report which we co-authored with PwC Ireland. This one focuses on the energy sector. The pace and deployment of technologies required for decarbonisation is an enormous challenge but also a huge opportunity for the island of Ireland. 💡   Take a read to understand more about the innovative companies who are working in this space: https://lnkd.in/e7J5uWRH WindCapture Technologies, Joulen, Stream BioEnergy, Senergy Innovations Ltd Openvolt, GridBeyond, Susbiome Ajay Menon

We are delighted to launch our second Irish Climate Tech Opportunity report with PwC Ireland which highlights the opportunities that we have to unlock economic growth and address climate change through the many climate tech companies we have across the island of Ireland. 💡 🌍 A huge thank you to all who contributed to the report including Temporis Capital, Systemiq Capital, WakeUp Capital, SOSV and Just Climate! 📑 Over the coming weeks we will be posting some key insights that the report highlights across the following sectors: - Energy - Built Environment - Food - Agriculture and Land Use - Mobility and Transport - Industry Manufacturing and Resource Management Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/ewDprZZD