Three Easy Steps to Greening Your Office
Look around your office, and you are most likely to find plenty of printed stuff, from brochures to business cards. Have you ever thought how printing affects the environment? The verdict is simple, if you need to print, go green.
Use green printing
Find a local printer that uses eco-friendly printing techniques. For the huge list of green printing services across the United States, refer to these search results or this directory (sorted by state).
Alternatively you can find a green printing service online - it will print your documents and ship them to your office. PsPrint is one of the best options to consider.
Or you may consider publishing your documents online. The most eco-friendly publication is the one that doesn’t exist on paper at all.
Choose recycled office paper
According to University of Western Australia’s Environmental Services, producing one tonne of recycled paper saves:
- between 10 and 25 trees;
- more than 30,000 litres of water;
- about 30 kilograms of air pollutants;
- 4 cubic metres of landfill;
- 2.5 barrels of oil…
Why not make this statistics public and thus develop your office employees’ green habits?
Positive publicity vs. quantity
Don’t focus on quality: think about positive publicity your green efforts will generate: for example, send out three eco-friendly mail campaigns instead of holding four ones. Your customers and partners are sure to appreciate the fact that you care about what’s to come.
Earth Friendly Weddings
What better way to celebrate your wedding than by having one which has a lot of impact on your guests while putting as little impact as possible on the environment? With themed weddings as the way to go for some couples, you may want to choose a theme that shows your love for the environment.
Having an earth-friendly wedding is easier than it sounds. The key to one is by keeping things simple and closer to nature. So if you want to have a wedding that does no harm to the environment, here’s what we have to suggest to you.
- Who says you need new clothes for the wedding? If you really love the environment, you’d opt for clothing that’s already in your wardrobe. Or if it’s not the option for you then buy new clothes which you can reuse after your wedding. The situation of today calls for practicality, so don’t buy clothing that you’ll only use once.
- Serve organic food during the meals. This is probably one of the best and subtlest ways you can get others to become environmentally-conscious. If you serve to them great tasting food that’s unadulterated, chances are that they’ll ask you more about it. You can then use the opportunity to tell them about eating organic food as opposed to genetically-modified ones.
- Think being environmentally-friendly stops with the food and the clothes? Think again. Even your bridal car can be environmentally friendly! Choose a car that’s either a hybrid (that which uses alternative sources of energy aside from gas) or runs on biodiesel.
- However, take note that green weddings like this can be a bit more expensive than your average wedding. But you’re not looking for the average, right? So make your wedding day extra memorable by adding some shade of green to it.
