Sustainable business expert Envirowise is calling on the North West's businesses to try out its new web based environmental impact measurement tool.

The Envirowise Indicator allows all of the region's businesses, irrespective of their size or industry sector, to gain a useful indication of their companies environmental impact - and the potential financial savings that can be made by reducing it.

By entering basic data on raw material and utility use, companies are given a visual illustration of the equivalent carbon dioxide emissions generated by these activities. Firms can therefore see which aspects of their business have the biggest CO2 impact - and plan in appropriate actions to address this as a result.

A seperate screen gives an at-a-glance view of which resources represent the largest cost to the business. And at any time, firms can make easy amendments to the data they have entered online to see the resulting financial and environmental impacts.

Companies can access the Indicator free of charge by visiting - www.envirowise.gov.uk/Indicator

Source - FSB July/August 2008