BTL has successfully helped 17 of its partners obtain Government Grants to implement everything from lighting retrofits and water tanks.

If you wish to know about the latest Government Grants, sign up for our free quarterly newsletter, call BTL or go to GRANTS AVAILABLE NOW.

Major building and refurbishment bring opportunities to spend your money wisely and make sustainable savings into the future. As well, your choices will make a difference to indoor air quality, benefiting the health of the building occupants.

Below are ideas on sustainable and healthy building and refurbishing considering:

• Design and comfort
• Materials
• Energy efficiency, capture and use
• Water efficiency
• Waste management
• Social sustainability
• Biodiversity
• Web resources

Business Treading Lightly, in conjunction with the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, will be hosting an Industrial Ecology forum on the 9th March, 2010.

BTL now has 150 partners from Wollongong to Bega and in the Wingecarribee and many of those partners are starting to make a real impact on their energy, waste and water bills.

To show that leadership and to inspire other businesses to start on a sustainable journey, during 2010 BTL will be running a BTL Partner Recognition program

Business Treading Lightly (BTL)  has secured additional funding to carry out a waste audit on typical facilities within our first target sector – the aged care industry.