Cocoonfxmedia Ltd has always been about doing the right thing for our clients. If it’s providing out-of-the-box thinking, to help to promote good business practices such as paying suppliers within 30 days.  We also heavily think about what impact our industry has on the planet. 

100% Paperless

Not the complete truth because we still do our best design with pen to paper, but from an admin point of view we made the move. Just to say we’re not jumping on the bandwagon to be fashionable or doing a box-ticking exercise, we’ve genuinely been active with regards to the environment, such as digitalising everything so we’re paperless. No invoices are being sent by mail. No printing of emails. The bank is the only person who sends us paper statements (Even after asking them to stop).

100% Carbon Neutral Web Hosting

The first step towards reducing our footprint was to find suppliers who are like-minded so in 2017 we found a provider to supply our servers that is eco-friendly. We did this, not only their office’s carbon offset but the whole data center and absolutely everything associated with this. So from 2017 all our clients who use us for hosting their websites, or managing their business systems are, and have been carbon offset which is traceable. So far they’ve planted over 1 million trees and have offset over 10,000 Tonnes of CO₂e. 

100% Remote Working

The lockdowns during COVID made us think do we actually need the office. We already had one member of staff remote working from another country for years before. The uptake in using Skype, Zoom & Teams meant hosting meetings remotely became normal. As soon as the lease had its breakpoint we ditched the office removing 4500 miles of travel estimated 250kgs of CO₂e per year.  It also reduced business mileage by a similar amount a year.

Carbon Calculators

As the company has extensive knowledge of the logistics industry and also has done extensive research into CO₂ emissions for logistics, we decided to build a carbon calculator for logistics. The framework was designed by our Managing Partner James Blackman for the largest logistics company in the world. We set up a standalone website https://cocooncarbon.co.uk/ to allow users to check how much CO₂e had been used shipping their freight. We found that other companies from Travel consultants to Charities were using it to help carbon offset. We will be enhancing our calculators to be even more accurate and possibly extend to include not just logistics shipments.

100% Carbon Neutral by 2022

In October 2021 after doing more research we found a suitable partner to offset the rest of our online usage. We had some clients using their own hosting services and we also had a requirement for Amazon Web Servers (AWS) of which we have over 10 servers. We need to make sure they fell under our 100% Carbon Neutral Hosting pledge. So using Ecologi we’re planting a minimum of 36 trees a month which will reduce CO₂e Emissions by 3.1 Tonnes a month. This will offset more than we use and some. Using Ecologi means we can have a piece of auditable evidence that we’re doing what we say we are. We’re also using THG – More Trees as Carbon Offsetting via Carbon Credits https://moretrees.eco/forest/c…