HELP! Go Green Office Tidbits!

[mandinga]

In an effort to make our office a more "green friendly" place I'm trying to promote some good office habits that are environmentally friendly.


any ideas?

Some of mine include;
carpool to work
use re-usable mugs for coffee
turning off computers at night
switch to energy efficient bulbs

[Hook-Line-N-Sinker]

Recycle bins for paper, pop cans, etc?

[Just_learning]

print double sided.

[letsfish]

Iwork in a preschool and as you know kids need and use paper as part of developing there skills.
If you know of a day care/preschool ask if they could use "one-sided"(used ) paper, old letterhead, old manila folders. You will likely be thought of as some sort of paper god and may be tapped for future paper donations.
It is a great way to recycle that paper one more time before it gets seriously reclycled.

[Thumper]

Write on the back of your skin and arms. No paper!!!

I used to do this when I was in high school. The nuns never appreciated my ecological commitment tho...

[freespool]

Originally Posted by mandinga

In an effort to make our office a more "green friendly" place I'm trying to promote some good office habits that are environmentally friendly.


any ideas?

Some of mine include;
carpool to work
use re-usable mugs for coffee
turning off computers at night
switch to energy efficient bulbs

Compressed work week, four 10 hr. days.

[fishkisser]

Compost your used coffee grounds ...

[STGRule]

I work in a state office (you know, the ones that waste all your tax-payer money :tongue. This is what we do:

Turn off lights in areas nobody is using, switched out our lighting with high efficiency fluorescent, we recycle ALL our paper. We recycle all the batteries we use. We make scratch-pads out of one-side printed paper. We use electronic edit-tracking instead of printing out multiple copies of reports for editing. We publish our reports electronically now and only print a dozen or less. We have recycling for glass and metal from our lunch containers. And we buy as many of our office supplies manufactured from recycled material as is practical.

I'm sure there is other stuff we do that I can't remember off the top of my head. And we started doing all this stuff voluntarily long before it was pushed in other offices.