business support
Tools, websites, organisations, checklists, signposting, case studies - they're all here. How to be green and gorgeous. Whether it's about changing your lightbulbs, or installing new technologies; using low impact cleaners or building a straw bale house, we can help. This is where you find the tools, the case studies, and the help to get you going, or move you faster. Have a browse, and use the filter on the left to refine your search.
do you know what the Green deal is?
New green building regulations to drive demand for Green Deal
green light for electric vans
Green grant to cut the cost of electric vans by £8000....
lloyds on-line sustainability tool
Lloyds bank has its own on-line sustainability tool.
carbon calculator for tourism businesses and households
A fantastic new web tool to measure your business's and household's carbon footprint
tamar valley: food and farming valley style
There's a fantastic new project developing in the Tamar Valley. Just loads and loads of common sense.....
CoaST & Global Boarders at 1st European Marine Leisure Conference
300 European stakeholders come together to ensure the sustainable development of the marine leisure sector, within the Atlantic Arc.
bring on the batteries
This man just got up and solved the problem.
six top tips for getting your message across
Here are six super simple tips for getting that message across...
carbon benchmarking in hotels taking off
Leading hoteliers are working to develop common standards to calculate and report on the international tourism industry’s carbon emissions with the aim of having the first ones in place by early 2012.
Good Energy holds steady on prices
Good Energy is keeping its prices steady. Now that's definitely a Good Thing.
hotels are getting canny about carbon
Carbon is moving fast up hoteliers' agendas....
good energy
Good Energy. Just what it suggests. And it's got our backing.
green labels guide
Confused by terms like accreditation, certification, validation or anything ending in "ation?" Here's a great guide to the various 'green' or 'eco labels' to help and identify and avoid the greenwash brigade.
template how to get here
this is how we tell our visitors to get to our office
steppa project
We are working on an European project called STEPPA comparing sustainable tourism practices in protected areas in Europe
transport cornwall
This carries some useful links to great sites - many of which you can carry on your own site
slow travel
Have you ever come home more exhausted than you were before you left? Say no more... have a look at these links to those fantastic slow travel movements who can help you help your visitors travel in a more relaxing pace.
templates
CoaST members are an astonishing resource of good practice and they send in their good practice examples to show other members what seems to work for them.
footprinting
many issues confront Cornwall's tourism industry: seasonality, wages, staffing and loss of tourism accommodation to name a few....
water efficiency
There are a heap of small actions, gadgets and calculators you can use to reduce the amount of water you use.
carbon roundtable
A programme being currently run by the University of Exeter, this provides space for leaders and open innovators to come together and start to crack the carbon conundrum. Helmets will be provided.
carbon off-setting
Offsetting your carbon is a way of trying to make up for the carbon you do use, that you cannot physically reduce any further. It's not supposed to just make you feel better.
carbon benchmarking
This is essentially a way to figure out where you sit compared to other businesses like you, in terms of your carbon appetite.
carbon management
This is how to manage the amount of carbon you use, and make a plan to use less each year. In a nutshell. And the canny among us are all starting to do it.
trading for people and planet
Great ideas for investing in your community...add your own!
campsite campaign
We work closely with the Environment Agency to help campsites tackle a whole heap of issues.
cornwall sustainable building trust
CSBT have been operating for some years and have barrow loads of information, advice and guidance.
carbon footprint
There are many carbon calculators; household, business, on and off line.
coast linen card
CoaST has designed a linen card to go with its sister towel card
coast consultancy services
From dipping your little toe into the waters of sustainable tourism, to your first lengths, to full on open ocean breaststroke. We can help you with the kit, the swimming costume, and the training programme.
one planet tourism network
This is where you are right now. This is the centre of what we do; the pivot of all our activity.
coast hosts
One of the ways we communicate with our members is by running CoaST Hosts - gatherings at a CoaST member property, to build in good opportunities to talk face to face, to celebrate achievement, hear new ideas, and plan the next ones.
green edge training
CoaST is fully certified and has it own stifferkits to deliver the Green Edge training on behalf of Welcome to Excellence.
energy resilience assessments
Want to find out how you can plan to future proof your business against peak oil rising oil costs and climate change?
sustainable tourism case studies
Some fantastic real life case studies of businesses walking - or sprinting - the talk...
community energy plus
Community Energy Plus have been operating in Cornwall for over ten years - and these are THE energy anoraks...and know all the other energy anoraks across the south west - so start here.
green build case studies
CSBT is the Cornwall Sustainable Buidlings Trust, and that's exactly what they do.
rezolve
These guys are THE waste Anoraks in Cornwall. They know more about waste than is strictly good for you. Which makes them galactically useful.
go real
Go Real is the UK Real Nappy Campaign, run by ReZolve from Cornwall. And if you didn't know anything about nappies, you've come to the right place...
coast towel card
CoaST member towel card. Saves money, water, detergent, waste and, crucially, gives an easy way for visitors to participate in our efforts. And they work.
leadership
In CoaST speak, though, not the sort of leadership that involves elbowing your way to the top as fast as humanly possible ensuring at all times that one is seen to be better than the rest. .
compost caddies are cool
Just think how many tea-bags our land has to absorb every summer...
st petroc's society
St Petroc's is a Cornish organisation working with single homeless people, which could well use unwanted materials that could come from a tourism business refurbishment - bedding, furniture, toiletries.
cornwall reuse and recycling
If you want to know who has what, takes what, recycles what, and where it goes, this is the place to go. Just a click away.
nea2: an intro
Nautisme Espace Atlantique (NEA2) is summed up as “The Ocean is Our Nation and Watersports our Passion". Our part in this is to work with the watersports and marine leisure industries to help them to become more sustainable.
greenwash
A Bad Thing. Like whitewash, only worse.
chefs' charter
We believe that good food, good company and happy times go hand in hand with really considerate use of the energy, water, waste and people that go into making them. We’re doing our bit – and then we’ll do even more!
green start action plan
The Green Start resource can help you put together your action plan for your business - simples!
bedknobs lighting energy audit
CoaST Ambassador Bedknobs is sharing its Lighting Audit Spreadsheet....
101 things to do on a rainy day
This website, developed by CoaST Ambassador Bedknobs B&B, provides a guide to wet weather activities in Cornwall. They Just Did It. :)
sw-ecowarehouse.co.uk
Online resource of suppliers for all eco-build projects. Bingo.
europarc charter
CoaST is collaborating with the Cornwall AONB and has succesfully secured the Cornwall EUROPARC Charter.
climate change case studies
Real weather, real businesses, real adaptation to a changing world.
the green blue
The Green Blue raises awareness, conducts scientific research, identifies environmentally friendly products and offers easy best practice advice to anyone keen to make boating in the UK as sustainable as possible.
coast visitor charter
The CoaST Visitor Charter (5 Ways to be the Best Sort of Visitor) is dead simple.
certification: green acorn award scheme
SECTA's Green Acorn Award Scheme
climate south west
Climate South West provides tourism specific support on adapting to climatic changes
certification: green tourism business scheme
GTBS is the Green Tourism Business Scheme.
marine environmental champions
We love Marine Environmental Champions!
carbon literacy
It's the new metric, the stuff in our pencils, the fizz in our drinks, what makes us all human and what we breathe out. It's a Good Thing, and has Made Our Lives Great. But we have to treat it right.
