Riverbank It management

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday at a brilliant clean tech symposium hosted by VenCap. Lots of very interesting people there, from venture capital people from around the globe to CEOs of spin-out companies and 'about to be spun out' companies from Oxford University.

One clear message was that there is investment money out there and clean tech is seen as a great place to invest.

A second message was that clean tech is a way of thinking, not a market sector. One speaker said that "If you’re not clean you’re dead." The speed at which government policies are changing around the globe and the shift in consumer demand means that we all need to have businesses that are clean and green.

At Riverbank we are starting to monitor car miles travelled per £ earned. We are already monitoring electricity consumption and looking at ways to reduce it even as the company grows. These sorts of things represent the easy 10%  win in terms of reducing our carbon footprint. That just leaves the difficult 70% to go...