How to green your business

Cycling and Walking

Provide secure (covered) bike parking - cycle stands or lockers
Provide changing facilities, showers and clothes lockers
Identify and publicise suitable routes for cycling to work and investigate the creation of cycle lanes
Offer interest free loans for cycle purchase
Negotiate staff discount at a local cycle shop
Set up a Bicycle Users Group (BUG), who can offer support and advice
Operate a Pool Bike scheme for business/leisure use
Provide reasonable cycle mileage allowances
Consider allowing staff to wear 'comfortable clothes' for cycling or walking into the office
Ensure footpaths are well lit, maintained and signposted

Set up a car sharing scheme
Pool cars or bikes for those who need a car during the day for work
Parking management - encourage more efficient use of spaces, parking control, reserve a section for car sharers, allocate permits according to need and distance from work, implement parking charges to fund other measures

Consider introducing flexitime - benefits to staff and company. This may involve, for example, allowing an earlier start or later finish, and can help to spread the traffic peak.
Encourage home working where possible, eg once a fortnight
Use video-conferencing to replace certain meetings
Consider operating a nine-day fortnight.

Provide interest free loans for season tickets
Negotiate staff discounts
Make season tickets available at work
Work with rail/bus operators to provide extra services where applicable
Ensure that timetables are readily available, using displays or a Journey Planner on personal computers
Run a shuttle bus to ferry staff to and from the nearest station - opportunities to share services with neighbours
Work with bus companies to improve bus routes and shelters. These will involve negotiations with the train or bus companies.