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UN Sustainable Development Goals and Your Business

So, you’re interested in sustainability, and you want to make some positive changes in your business. Maybe you want to align your goals and targets with something bigger – a global initiative and set of standards such as the United Nations Sustainable Development...

Ku-ring-gai Net Zero Communities Consultation

Ku-ring-gai Net Zero Communities Consultation

Ku-ring-gai Council has a goal of reaching Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. Council has successfully cut its own emissions through energy efficiency and installing renewable energy and wants to work more closely with local businesses, residents, and schools...

Councils Rebates and Grants for Businesses!

Councils Rebates and Grants for Businesses!

  Did you know Ku-ring-gai Council has a range of rebates and grants available for businesses? Some are closing in the next couple of months, so below is a summary with links to more information. If you have a sustainability or community project in mind and need...

BBP is hiring!

We have an opening for a short term contractor to help the BBP team to get ready for the Better Business Awards coming up in June 2021!  We are seeking someone with amazing writing skills, marketing and promotional experience, a bit of project management and lots of...

Green Caffeen launches in Willoughby

Green Caffeen launches in Willoughby

Since COVID-19 entered our lives, bringing with it a necessary focus on hygiene, it has been very difficult to maintain the fight against single use plastic cups for take-away coffee.  Many cafes have been hesitant to accept customers’ own cups for fear of cross...

2020 Bye Bye! Come to our online end of year event!

2020 Bye Bye! Come to our online end of year event!

2020 has been no ordinary year.  As we balance the COVID 19 challenges thrown at us, yet all needing to continue making meaningful connections, BBP is holding a very special end of year function that is all about deepening the network of like minded future thinking...

Spring Cleaning – Ethical ways to dispose of unwanted items

Spring Cleaning – Ethical ways to dispose of unwanted items

Businesses have a need to dispose of their waste responsibly.  Ineligible for free council waste collections, it is often difficult to find ways to dispose of difficult items responsibly and ethically.   One of BBP’s objectives is to encourage the reduction of...

The Possibility Project Case Study

The Possibility Project Case Study

The Possibility Project is an innovative Ku-ring-gai business that is redefining the fashion industry and the mindset of youth to live sustainably and ethically. The business 4 core pillars of compassion, gratitude, mastery and purpose drive the owners to be...

Sudu Hair Case Study

Sudu Hair Case Study

Sudu Hair is a boutique salon in Roseville and in 2018 won the Peoples Choice Award & was a Retail & Specialty shop finalist. The business has membership with Sustainable Salons, a resource recovery program tailored for the salon environment...

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