# Earth Overshoot Day

- Link: https://imserv.com/blog/earth-overshoot-day/
- Published: 2019-04-29T08:09:40+00:00

### We’ve made the pledge to #MoveTheDate – have you?

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We have made the pledge to #MoveTheDate of Earth Overshoot Day which has been set
as today, 1 August 2018. Our aim is to #MoveTheDate of Earth Overshoot Day by at
least 21 days.

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources
and services in a given year exceeds what earth can regenerate in that year. When
considered this is an alarming thought.

The sad reality is that from this day on we are using an unsustainable amount of
the Earth’s resources. Humans demand more from the earth than it can produce and
carbon emissions are the biggest culprit. Carbon emissions make up 60 per cent of
humanity’s Ecological Footprint.

Buildings consuming too much electricity are the slow silent environmental drains
that can be overlooked. Commercial premises are regularly the biggest culprits of
excess energy spend, however with careful monitoring and efficient metering these
losses can be reversed.

For more than 24 years we have been using metering data to power energy efficiency
for businesses across the UK. Simple metering measures once put in place mean that
it’s not too late to #MoveTheDate.

### IMSERV’s five steps to #MoveTheDate of Earth Overshoot:

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 * **Step 1
   Metering:
    install a device to meter data from electricity, gas and 
   water consumption, this can quickly deliver actionable real-time energy insights.
   Metering data is a crucial piece of the energy management jigsaw that a business
   needs to make and create a more energy efficient building that will, by default
   improve equipment performance and reduce ever-increasing energy costs. Saving
   energy is five times cheaper than producing it!
 * **Step 2**
   **Data intelligence:** analyse the data gathered from metering to 
   helping solve energy waste problems and provide access to intelligence on how,
   when and where energy is being sapped.
 * **Step 3 **
   **Act on waste:** acting on the metered data intelligence to make
   positive changes to a buildings energy use and therefore deliver tangible energy
   and cost savings to the bottom line.
 * **Step 4
   Think eco-travel:
    make conscious choices to your everyday travel and
   commute, cycling, walking, car share or embrace the electric vehicle.
 * **Step 5
   Reduce, reuse, recycle:
    from paper to plastic, make efforts everyday
   with everything from packaging to clothing.

**IMSERV is actively working with its customers to #movethedate using its team of
data interpreters to dig into the metering data of its 282,000 metering points to
identify opportunities for improvements in building and equipment performance and
the ability to reduce consumption and their demands on the environment. _  _**