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=**Business Sustainbilit-e (Businesses Treading Lightly)**= toc

**RTO**
Kiama Community College

**Contact**
Ruth Walker Su Bowing

**Category**
Empowering learners/RTO-Business Partnership

**Business Partner**
Businesses Treading Lightly

Executive summary
Kiama community College have long suspected that utilization of technology in the workplace has a large contribution to make to the business sustainablity solutions. Current efforts in the field of business sustainability seem to focus on treatment of e-waste, minimizing computer and software packaging, printers, printing and toner cartridges. Used broadly, sustainability refers to, not only minimising the ecological footprint of business, but also the financial advantage and enhanced probability of organisational longevity provided by, more efficient use of resources. The College surmised that any reduction in business costs realised through use of Web 2.0 software and other web based applications deserved attention. In particular, the College is an advocate of web conferencing as a means to enhancing organisation, network and client communications whilst reducing the need for travel, accomodation etc and its associated ecological and financial expense. The opportunity to work the Business Treading Lightly (BTL) in its immediate sense offered the opportunity to assist BTL to improve their own sustainability practices across its various sites, but also to leverage their learnings to assist their client organisations in using technologies as part of their sustainability solution.