Green Your Office
Why stop at home? Try these tips for creating a greener office. You can share them with co-workers, or provide a more eco-friendly working environment for your employees.
Happy plants make happy workers
It is proven that plants make people happier. They also can help clean up the air in your workplace. Give some plants a new home in your office.
Get rid of bottled water
Bring in a reusable water bottle and refill from the office water cooler. Perhaps the company can purchase reusable bottles for everyone with the company logo.
Recycle that ink
There are many options for recycling ink and toner cartridges. If you can refill your own – even better.
Reuse your lunch
Well, you lunch containers that is. Choose reusable containers or sandwich wraps and avoid the disposable plastic bags.
Go paperless
If possible, send out documents via email, rather than printing. When you really think about it, there are many times when an electronic copy makes better sense than a print copy.
These are just a few ways to move towards a greener office. If you have other tips to share, please post in the comments.
Hey! Thanks for all the great info. I was browsing through a bunch of green websites and blogs and I came across yours and found it very interesting. There are a bunch of others I like too, like the daily green, ecorazzi and earthlab.com. I especially like EarthLab.com’s carbon calculator (http://www.earthlab.com/signupprofile/). I find it really easy to use (it doesn’t make me feel guilty after I take it). Are there any others you would recommend? Can you drop me a link to your favorites (let me know if they are the same as mine).
Nice list of tips, especially the part about water bottles. It’s easy to forget that simple things are most effective when it comes to green living.
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Dennis R. Boren (a neighbor in Amarillo, TX)
great advice! just thought you guys might like a series online that’s very similar to the topic of your blog posts. might be worth sharing with readers? http://www.intent.com/green
it’s called “30 days to a greener you”
great post, I translate it for my blog, ok?
my blog its about environmental and greener way of life,it´s in portuguese
keep posting
Thank you for the idea of “Happy plants make happy workers” I just want to add that , green colour is giving a positive sense when people watch green stuffs ,I can say also that some plants have their own positive energy,…
Thank you for your post.