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How to be green at work

Mira Bangel

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5 Responses to “How to be green at work”

  • aurelie Says:
    April 29th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    Good:) I ve a lobbying job for u girl.. Can u convince my company that it s is not necessary to print and put so much paper in circulation when we could use emails?;)

  • Paul Cobbaut Says:
    April 30th, 2009 at 12:55 am

    Some remarks:
    - I know people that print every single email they get. I hate it, but the only thing you can do is stop sending them email.
    - ceramic cups don’t always fit in the company’s coffee machine
    - people already carry papers+laptop+gsm+sacoche. Adding reusable plastic containers, ceramic cup and fork/spoon/knife doesn’t make taking public transport easier.
    - computers need to be maintained! As a sysadmin I fully understand that computers need to be always turned on to receive critical patches. There are other possibilities, but they are not easy to implement! (Mainly because employees do not follow the procedures from the IT department.)

    Overall this is a good video series, but about half of their solutions are too simplistic.

    more simple but good advice:
    - take the stairs!
    - bicycle!
    - drink tap water!
    - turn off unneeded lights!

    cheers,
    paul

  • Inge Says:
    May 4th, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    At our work, most of it is applied for many, many years…so I´m into something new instead of the things we know for many years

  • Mira Bangel Says:
    May 4th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    Sounds like you are very fortunate in that respect.

    So what would be ‘something new’ for you, Inge?

  • Sylvia Says:
    May 6th, 2009 at 8:13 am

    I always print 4 pages on 1 sheet if its just for reading. My scrap paper is printed paper where the backside has not been used yet.

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