10 STEPS TO SHRINK YOUR OFFICE FOOT PRINT

1.Take your office GREEN footprint
The Website "TheGreenOffice.com", an online retailer specialising in GREEN office products,make available a free Office Footprint Calculator to gauge what kind of effect you and your co workers are having on environment and identify how to make improvement

2.Save Trees
An average office worker uses 10,000 sheet of copy paper a year.Refrain from printing when you can,use both side of the sheet and recycle so that the recycling industry will have raw material

3.Power Down
Artificial lighting accountsfor almost half of all electricity use.Turn off the lights that are not being used.Better yet, install motion sensors that do it automatically when no one is in the room.Also shut down computers overnight, and set them to go into sleep mode when sitting indle.

4.Minimize E Waste
Upgrade of repair the office computers instead of junking them.So called "E Waste" - toxin leaching computers and electronics- is a huge problem all over the world now.

5.Telecommute
Encourage workers to work at home when possible,to save car trips.For those who must come to the office,encourage bicycling if it is safe.Also some firms subsdies employee public transit cost to discourage driving.And online video tolls like Skype can help cut down on business trips

6.Clean Greener
Make sure your cleaning services uses non toxic,green products,if they don’t,offer to supply them - so that you can breath easy when you are trying to get your own work done

7.Eco Renovate
If you need to renovate or upgrade anything,greenest option abound including non toxic paints,natural fibre carpeting,energy efficient windows and energy star rated office equipment

8.Drink boiled tap water
Having big jugs of water lugged in and out every week by the water bottle company is not only unneccesary but a big waste of energy.Put filters on the kitchen spouts or buy fitered water pitchers and keep them in the office fridge

9.Green-screen your supplier
Ask your vendors how they are greening their operations.Just posing them the questions can start them thinking,the precursor to action.Demand recycled paper and soy based inks from your printers and buy only green office supplies

10.Put your heads together
Form a committee to organise and monitor your office green practices, to ensure that your office green goals don’t fall away if one or two committed employees move on and to reinforce the importance of doing the right thing across the organisation - Earthtalk/E The Environment Magazine

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