Sustainability
Launching Green Ocean Coffee

Launching Green Ocean Coffee

At Watermark, we are committed to running our business in a way that minimises our environmental impact.  This is an unrelenting process that requires a lot of thought and vigilance but we’re up for the challenge!!  As a person who has always been deeply interested in...

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How we reduced our electricity usage by over 50%

How we reduced our electricity usage by over 50%

With 47% of Ireland’s electricity generation in October 2022 coming from wind generation (as reported by the Irish Times) it does seem as if we’re getting somewhere in moving away from our reliance on fossil fuels.  This is truly fantastic news and hopefully we can...

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The Cost of Coffee

The Cost of Coffee

Those involved in the coffee trade over the past 2 years and have seen gyrations to the coffee price that were previously inconceivable. The worldwide supply of coffee has reduced due to damage from late frosts in Brazil in May 2020 combined with the covid...

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Moving to Solar Power Generation

Moving to Solar Power Generation

Last July we installed solar panels on the roof of our office and warehouse in Citywest.  With only 8 months of data so far (and most of this during the Autumn and Winter) we have generated almost 11 megawatts of electricity to power our operations. This equates to...

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Moving to Solar Power

Moving to Solar Power

We are really excited about getting solar panels installed on our building here in Citywest. We are putting in 64 panels measuring 1.5 square meters each that will generate over 23,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year.  This is about 70% of our yearly usage....

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