Earth Hour Friendly Shopping at Bayside

Bakers Delight actively supports environmentally conscious practices.  Excess product not donated to charities is often used as animal feed in an effort to reduce landfill.  A greasy waste management strategy is in place to prevent pollution of our waterways.

Bakers Delight’s new ‘Green’ artisan oven is currently being rolled out, with a characteristic of a 25 per cent reduction in energy resources. Insulation properties result in heat being retained; ultimately requiring less power.  Bakers Delight also supports the 'Save Water Target 155' Victorian Government iniative in an effort to reduce urban water use.

They promote the use of environmentally friendly calico bags and encourages paper bags where possible or the reusing of plastic bags, in an effort to reduce landfill. The calico bags are made from cotton, a natural bio-degradable fibre. Bakers Delight donates 10 cents towards Clean Up Australia for every bag sold. Bakers Delight also works with packaging suppliers in reducing the use of plastic bags and amount of ingredient packaging.

Bakers Delight has been signatory to the National Packaging Covenant (NPC) since its inception in 2004. The NPC is an industry-led initiative to self-manage packaging waste with the goal of the covenant to achieve a national 65 per cent recycling rate by 2010.

Bay Audio embraces responsibility for the impact of its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public. Moreover, our aim is to help, educate and encourage communities to take steps to live a better life. Below is one of our recent community activities, Pacific Aid.

Bay Audiology, Bay Audio's sister company, is playing a key role in a joint project to improve hearing among Pacific Island communities. As part of the ground-breaking Pacific Aid hearing project that happens once a year, a team of audiologists are sent to the Cook Islands to provide free hearing assessment and treatment to the island nation's poorer communities.

Bay Audiology is one of several organisations behind the Pacific Island project, including the Cook Islands Government and the New Zealand Lions Club.

Four of our fantastic eyewear retailers; Budget Eyewear, Laubman and Pank, OPSM & Sunglass Hut all support OneSight, a charitable eye care foundation, provides free eye care and free eyewear to people in need both here in our own country and around the world.  OneSight has operated throughout Australia and New Zealand for over 7 years and globally for over 20 years and has helped more than 7 million people with the gift of sight.

These retailers proudly supports OneSight Foundation through their staff donating their time at vision clinics, making payroll deductions, helping with fundraising and collecting eyewear for recycling.  You can get involved too and help provide free eye care to millions of people around the world. You can change how someone sees the world in two very easy ways:-

Make a difference locally
By making a tax-deductible donation to help raise funds for local vision clinics that help children and adults across our country. Donations accepted at any Budget Eyewear store or via the website www.onesight.org.au

Make a difference globally
By donating your pre-loved eyewear at any Budget Eyewear store. We'll recycle and hand deliver your old glasses to recipients in 3rd world countries.

As one of Australia's largest retailers, Coles recognises the effect it may have on the environment and therefore we’re committed to finding ways to reduce any negative impact and enhance the environment we live in.

That’s why we take our environmental and social responsibility seriously. Through key partnerships and support for vital environmental projects we strive to give our customers not just value and quality, but peace-of-mind as well.

Just some of the projects Coles employ's include:

    * Landcare Australia
    * Plastic Bag Challenge
    * Coles Green Bags
    * Coles School Garden Grants
    * Indigenous Bush Tucker Gardens

At Coles, we are committed to reducing our impact on the environment. In an effort to help reduce the number of single use plastic bags we issue and encourage greater use of reusable bags when shopping, we have launched, nationally, a new range of bag options for our customers to purchase in store including:

    * Re-Use Me: Don’t Forget Me bag available for 15c; and
    * Re-Use Me: I’m Biodegradable (cornstarch) bag available for 25c.

Coles will also continue to offer our ever-popular 99 cent Landcare reusable bags, with 5 cents from the sale of each bag donated to support Coles' School Garden Grants Program.

In addition, Coles has launched a new Natural Bag for $2.99, made of natural plant fibres. For every Natural Bag purchased Coles will donate 10 cents to support Junior Landcare and the development of community bush tucker gardens, maintaining the traditions of Indigenous Australians.

To further encourage plastic bag recycling, Coles has invested in new plastic bag recycling bins for their stores across Australia. These bins are located at the front of the stores and available to any customer who wishes to drop off any unwanted single use or Re-Use Me: Don't Forget Me plastic bags for recycling.

Mannya (translated in English means Pot Holes) is located in the South of Uganda, almost on the Tanzanian border. Dubbed 'mission impossible' by the local diocese an Australian ventured there about ten years ago. He reported back to St Bernard's parish in Geelong, who were looking for a community to sponsor in Africa. Mannya became Fr Peter Foley's personal mission along with the parish of St Bernard's, Geelong.

When they first got involved only a small village was present with a local primary school, ten years on they now have a fully functional medical centre, parish church, secondary school, dormitories and sponsored children. Thanks to the hard work of a small few, particularly St Bernard's Geelong, St Bernard's Essendon and Fr Foley who has been back to Mannya eight times since his first visit.

The Cotton On Foundation joined forces with this amazing group in 2007 and are looking to give them the added financial and resource boost that they require to help empower the local people of Mannya village to live a life full of hope and promise.  The East African Mannya Village is situated a rough four hour drive from the Ugandan capital Kampala, with a population that has been devastated by the AIDS epidemic the community is in desperate need of infrastructure, AIDS awareness, medical assistance and sustainability.

Although the village is over 12,000 kilometres away from our doorstep, the Cotton On Foundation is focused on assisting through constructing new schools, assisting with agriculture and supplying much needed equipment to support sustainable infrastructure.  Ongoing support from the Cotton On Foundation will continue for as long as needed and is essential to the long term survival of the Mannya community.

Cotton On’s fundraisers, Message In A Bottle and bags, raise money for people in need around the world.

Who would have thought that putting a message in a bottle and sending it out into the deep blue, would actually end up in someone’s hands? You would think after days, weeks, even months of bobbling around the sea, it would be either gobbled up, get stuck in a swirl, thrown into a pirates loot, or God forbid, hit an iceberg!  Message In A Bottle and bags are located in over 350 Cotton On stores in Australia and New Zealand. We’ll also be selling through Singapore and Hong Kong in the near future.  All proceeds from every Message in a Bottle water and bag sold will be put into the Cotton On Foundation supporting charities around the world.

Country Road understands the social and ethical considerations involved in sourcing quality materials around the world.

They insist each of their suppliers signs Country Road's Code of Labour Practice.  The code details the ethical and responsible manufacturing practices they expect from our suppliers, in accordance with International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions.  To ensure their code is respected, we use independent agencies to audit suppliers on our behalf and we make regular supplier visits ourselves. Corrective actions or sanctions offer potential ways forward should further issues arise.

Country Road have also signed the National Packaging Covenant - a voluntary government and industry initiative that works towards reducing the environmental impact of packaging.  Their Packaging Action Plan for 2008-2010 aims to make a difference across three key areas:

* take-home bags are 100% recyclable
* to encourage suppliers to alter packaging materials for our accessory lines
* to influence their suppliers to package in a more environmentally friendly manner. 

Country Road are also making plans to more effectively manage our carbon emissions.  After engaging Climate Change Solutions consultants CarbonetiX to assess our carbon footprint, they now understand their carbon outputs better and are developing strategies to manage their footprint more efficiently.

Recycle your old mobile with Crazy John's and help the environment

Crazy John's supports Mobile Muster

* In Australia more than 90% or more than 16 million people own a mobile phone and 
   exchange it on average every 18-24 months.
* In 2005, 8 million mobile phones were sold into the Australian market.
* It's estimated that Australians are hoarding in excess of over 16 million mobile phones
   and associated accessories in offices and homes.

Mobile phones contain many precious and scarce resources that can be recovered

* Precious metals: gold, silver, platinum,
* Base metals: steel, lead, nickel, copper, cadmium
* Plastics

Mobile phones and batteries contain heavy metals, which can have an adverse impact on the environment if disposed of to landfills.  New generation mobile phones are designed to reduce environmental impacts.  What Happens to the phones? Over 90% of materials are recovered Become new products like fence-posts (plastics), jewellery, stainless steel.

What do I do next?

Simply bring in your old handset to any Crazy John's store* next time you come in for a great deal - they'll take your old phone and make sure it's recycled responsibly.

SOS Children’s Villages have been a cooperation partner of Esprit for many years. In 2008, this partnership entered a new dimension. “The Esprit partnership is characterised by a particularly serious and great commitment of the partner who wants to really make a difference with joint projects”, explains Thomas Marschall, SOS Children’s Villages worldwide. And Heinz Krogner, Esprit’s Chairman and Group CEO, is also very pleased: “With this project, we can pass on the success of the Esprit brand in a way that makes sense and is fully in line with the Esprit philosophy”.

Here, 14 family homes will become the new home for more than 140 children. The concept also includes a kindergarten, which will have enough space for a total of 60 children from the village and neighbouring communities. There will also be a social centre. This will become the home of the family strengthening programme, which will in future be a point-of-call for more than 500 women and their children.  The project focuses on education and support, which mainly aims to help girls and women to lead their life as strong characters. The construction phase is set to kick off in October 2008, at the end of the monsoon rains. The official opening of the village is planned for January 2010.  Since 2008, Esprit has been involved in six different projects, which focus on the strengthening of families, in the New Delhi area.

Gloria Jean's has joined forces with the Rainforest Alliance to offer the largest variety of Rainforest Alliance Certified™ coffees available.

Gloria Jean's entire line of flavored coffees, both regular and decaf contains Rainforest Alliance Certified beans. That means that when you drink Gloria Jean's flavored coffees you are directly improving the lives of farm workers and tropical wildlife.  Gloria Jean's partnership with the Rainforest Alliance supports their shared goal of conserving ecosystems where coffees are grown and treating farm workers and their families with respect by providing a fair wage, and access to education and medical care.

The Rainforest Alliance, an international non-for-profit, collaborates with leading conservation organizations around the world to help farmers, foresters and lodge owners to establish sustainable land use practices that reflect environmental, social and economic concerns. Throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia coffee beans are grown and harvested by some 25 million farmers, most of them smallholders.

The Rainforest Alliance works with farmers to conserve natural resources and to protect forests, rivers and other wildlife habitats. Those farms that meet the Rainforest Alliance's demanding social and environmental standards are awarded a certification seal. The seal is an incentive to farmers and a guarantee to consumers that Gloria Jean's purchases coffee grown on farms where forests, rivers, soils and wildlife are protected and workers are treated respectfully, paid decent wages, equipped and trained properly and have access to education and health care.  Gloria Jean's believes that the program created by the Rainforest Alliance serves the greatest good for the most people; both on an individual and community-wide level and that the organization supports a wide geographical area, especially when compared to other certification programs. We're proud to help preserve the environment and improve the lives of the many coffee producers and others whose well-being depends on the coffee industry.

Howards Storage World is proud to embrace environmental awareness and recognise that as a company they can make a difference to the environment.  They have committed to help make a difference in a variety of ways, including:

In store- We are currently in the process of determining how to phase out plastic bags and are investigating viable environmentally friendly alternatives. We are also committed to ecological responsibility by introducing of a range of products made from bamboo, a more renewable natural resource. Plus, Howards is also introducing ‘upcycled’ products made from recycled paper.  Wherever possible, Howards Storage World will endeavour to print on environmentally friendly paper stock and carry appropriate environmental messages and logos.

"Greener" products- The Howards Storage World international buying department is also keeping an eye on the increasing availability of products being manufactured using renewable resources and sourcing products to assist with recycling. Where possible packaging will be minimized.

A "greener" office- At Howards, our staff members are conscious of recycling our paper products and utilise on-site recycling bins to separate paper, plastic and glass.

Ishka proudly runs their business with strong ethical and environmental standards. They encourage, you the customer to give a thought about who benefits when you purchase your products.

Spending money at Ishka helps Village people in developing countries. They strongly believe in the benefit of trade in village craft, where on average a $100 of sales gives 3 days work to the maker.

World craft is a major interest to the staff of Ishka. Many staff have been with the company for over 10 years due to the belief in company values. Ishka supports the great work of organisations like Amnesty International and Doctors without Boarders, and, are proud to be an ethically approved supplier of OXFAM shops in Australia.

Ishka also takes a strong stance when it comes to environmental issues. They realise there is no easy answer to the broad issues surrounding the environment, one thing for sure: Ishka aims to minimise their impact and footprint on the planet, by using less, caring more and showing the utmost respect for our habitat and each other.

Safeway/Woolworths are re-using, reducing and recycling in many ways, to help create sustainable supermarkets, in areas such as: Air Conditioning, Water Use, Lighting, Refrigeration, Material Use, Plastic and Cardboard Recycling, Other types of recycling,Woolworths Eco Ambassadors, Spill kits, Plastic bag alternatives, Mobile phone recycling, and encouraging Recycling at home.

Visit woolworths.com.au to find out everything Safeway/Woolworths is doing to help action Earth hour, Every hour.

Suzannegrae is proud to be helping address two important issues with one solution.

Suzannegrae is donating 100% of the profits from the sale of 'Envirosax' enviro-friendly bags directly to The White Ribbon Campaign.

This not only helps our environment but donates much needed funding to the White Ribbon Foundation.

Target Australia is recognised and applauded for its respect for the environment by our team, partners and the community.

We will champion the environment by:
* Reducing our energy consumption and carbon footprint across our business.
* Minimising waste generated by our activities and through the life cycle of our products.
* Valuing water as a precious resource.
* Providing customers with environmentally friendly product choices where practical.
* Creating an environmentally sustainable culture within our business and the
   community.

We will achieve this by:
* Ensuring our business is 10% more energy efficient (kWh per square metre)
   over the next five years, compared to FY08.
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