So How Does ecoBiz Fit Into The Circular Plan?
What Is ecoBiz?
ecoBiz is a free program funded by the Queensland Government and delivered by the Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland (CCIQ), which helps Queensland businesses and organisations audit their resource use and reduce costs from waste, water, and energy bills. After a free two-hour coaching session with one of our sustainability experts, businesses receive a written report with practical and actionable recommendations, which are often no or low cost to implement.
Every year, ecoBiz specialists analyse how participating businesses have progressed.
Here are the key ways we see ecoBiz plays into not only the first steps in going circular but acting as a foundational framework for waste management.
ecoBiz Coaching
ecoBiz is a program that is being rolled out in Queensland, how lucky are we. It is no secret that the circular economy framework is being rolled out in Melbourne and SEQLD with great uptakes in the business model. Government and patterns in the framework are being developed, we just have to tweak it so it suits our environment and location, and stage of development.
If you want to learn, take a course, if you want to learn fast, get a coach. That’s where ecoBiz comes in.
100% Free - Fiona, our FNQ ecoBiz coach
To access Fiona you have to register on CCIQ website and that is how you come up in Fiona’s schedule to start to work with your business. They use data to measure the change in your waste; Energy, Water and Waste, and how a change between a 10-25% drop in waste can earn you one in each area of these coveted stars. The Star Partner program.
What's Involved?
ecoBiz is there to encourage and support and do the report you need to see where are the greatest opportunities for change and who is willing to step up to it to handle it.
Your ecoBiz coach will spend time doing the survey of your bills to identify what you can change and how from that you might just save $’s in waste management fees as well as educating your people on how to waste less across Power, Water and rubbish.
The Other Stakeholders
We attended the ecoBiz awards this year and the passion and excitement in the Small Chamber Of Commerce and the support they are offering for businesses that attain ecoBiz Star Partners and ongoing optimisation of their ratings was very heartwarming. There was a lot of hope in that room.
Supported by data and systems this framework is something we are getting behind at circular economy fnq. People who are aware of council and grant funding opportunities are looking towards circular business frameworks as those they wish to support to make a strong difference in the region to handle our current and future challenges with a collective approach.
Data and systems and shared intelligence is how we are going to navigate the change that we need to see in every industry that thrives here to make them handle the change to true sustainability with as much grace as we can provide. And most of all with as much hope as they need.
Where Circular Economy FNQ Comes In
To support the impact that ecoBiz and BCorp provides we are looking at other software and stakeholders that are helping make the goal of a circular economy a reality. Green KPI. We have done a Green Ripple Effect story on the co-founder Johanna Kloot.
