Emily’s Ten Commandments of a Greener Office
Posted on | May 22, 2009 | 2 Comments
1. Thou shalt avoid “vampire power” by unplugging appliances when not in use.
2. Thou shalt use coffee mugs instead of paper cups – and dishtowels instead of paper towels – as much as possible.
3. Thou shalt not purchase disposable plastic water bottles unless thou is dangerously parched.
4. Thou shall turn off thou’s computers at the end of each work day, or at least put them to sleep.
5. Thou shalt always make double-sided copies or prints, or better yet, avoid printing altogether.
6. Thou shalt recycle all plastic, paper, glass and metal products, including food containers and aluminum foil, even if thou thinks it is not recyclable.
7. Thou shalt dispose of or recycle all batteries, toner cartridges, light bulbs and/or other harmful materials properly and safely.
8. Thou shalt turn off all lights and electronics in rooms when thou is the last person to leave the room.
9. Thou shall try to take public transportation or carpool to work at least once a week.
10. Thou shalt reward thyselves with donuts and other delicious baked goods for thou’s earnest green efforts.
Tags: efficient > energy > recycling > saving > transportation > waste
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 7:32 pm
To amend #2, thou shall not purchase new ceramic coffee mugs as their production consumes large amounts of energy. Buy used ones. Or buy glass.
It takes the energy of 1,800 styrofoam cups to make 1 ceramic mug. But don’t go using styrofoam because of that!
June 1st, 2009 @ 9:42 am
Hi Emily:
Miss you already! When you have a chance, check out this website. We are going to build green “breweries” on one acre sites to produce green fuels and power from algae.
We suck up huge amounts of CO2 to feed the algae. We will likely need a competent green architect to help design the green-ness for the structures that the facilities and equipment must reside. We use solar for all the process energy and grab CO2 at the rate of 17K metric tons/yr/facility.
Chin up!
Paul