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[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Often the unaccounted for or \u201cfree\u201d benefits that natural systems provide are discounted by business or misused without understanding why they should be preserved.<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Flood Prevention<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Flood Water Attenuation [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Carbon Sequestration<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Wetlands, seagrass beds, ocean ecosystems, woodlands, forests, grasslands<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Water Filtration<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Wetlands, hydrologic cycle, groundwater filtration<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Food Provision<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Grasslands, forests, wetlands, aquatic ecosystems, coral reefs, deep ocean<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Air Filtration<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Forests, woodlands, ocean<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Pollination<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Biodiversity support from a diverse range of organisms<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]All of these services aid and support all manner of businesses. Without pollination we’d lose the vast majority of the foods available to us. If we degrade wetlands we increase carbon dioxide within the atmosphere and speed climate change and degrade our water quality.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]We risk ever more destructive flood events that destroy infrastructure and delay transport, all of which increase business risk and the cost of doing business.<\/p>\n Environmental compliance has long been seen as a grudge purchase, where the client seeks to expend the least amount of money to maintain the lowest ‘acceptable’ form of compliance. We believe this is a toxic lose-lose scenario. The environment loses as only the most grievous impacts are ever addressed, the state loses as their cost and duty to rehabilitate the land after utilization increases additionally business risk increases, and business sustainability is reduced. Perhaps more importantly, future generations pay the price for this “profit first, environment second” mind-set.<\/p>\n Instead Offset Industries seeks to partner with forward thinking ethical businesses and their leadership, those who realise that their long term goals can only be achieved with healthy functioning ecosystems.<\/p>\n The case for ethical sustainable business practices has never been clearer. Careful considered strategic investments in environmental practices can have long last positive returns.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1626262736241{background-color: #f7f7f7 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Contact Us” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#4e276d” outline_custom_hover_background=”#ffffff” outline_custom_hover_text=”#4e276d” align=”center” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-envelope-open-text” add_icon=”true” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.offsetindustries.com%2Fwordpress%2Fcontact%2F|title:Contact||”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” full_height=”yes” equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”top” css=”.vc_custom_1627476507546{background-image: url(http:\/\/www.offsetindustries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SERVICES-scaled.jpg?id=85) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text] Ecosystem Services [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Often the unaccounted for or \u201cfree\u201d benefits that natural systems provide are discounted by business or misused without understanding why they should be preserved.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text] A handful of these are listed below: [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text] Flood Prevention Flood Water Attenuation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-container.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offsetindustries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offsetindustries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offsetindustries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offsetindustries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offsetindustries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.offsetindustries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/www.offsetindustries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offsetindustries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A handful of these are listed below:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\nWetlands, grasslands, aquatic ecosystems<\/p>\n