613 gogreen week at your company

Replace all disposable paper products by 100% recycled paper products4. Switch all office cleaning products over to eco-friendly ones to eliminate toxins in our waste water.. Your small

BRAINSTORMING FROM FIRST MEETING

1 Sending out about 1000

emails/day That’s at

least 1000 printouts/day

at other companies

2 Grow our own herb, tomato plants, etc in the backyard of

company building Save everyone the trip to the

grocery store Coffee grinds: a great fertilizer!

3 Can we change conventional light bulbs to more

energy efficient ones?

4 Replace all disposable paper products by 100%

recycled paper products

5 Set up carpools, encourage people to

bike, or walk to work

6 Switch all office cleaning products

over to eco-friendly ones to eliminate toxins in our

waste water

7 Pass out individual recycling cans for every desk next

8 Cleaners cann’t remember that recyclables go in the

gray dumpster and other trash in the green one

It’s pointless to recycle if they get this wrong

9 We have a giant electricity bill

Printing out internal documents double sided

can reduce the volume of printouts

Your small company decided to do a Go-Green Week

because a lot of you [the employees] have been asking

for it Every day you will do something green Your goal

is to have the maximum positive impact for the

environment while also decreasing your expenses

I N YOUR FIRST MEETING YOU DID SOME BRAINSTORMING TO SEE THE AREAS WHERE YOU COULD BE GREENER YOU HAVE A LOT OF IDEAS IN THE AIR , AND SOME OPEN QUESTIONS DO THE SECOND MEETING AS FOLLOWS :

Step 1 Use the helpful information

that one of you pulled from the internet

[see below] during the discussion

Step 2 Decide on one objective for

each working day Make sure that everyone is more or less happy with the decision

Step 3 Put down the agreed on

agenda on the next page

Sounds great, but can we also somehow reduce the amount of printing we do?

How could we encourage other companies not to print our emails?

Do we have time for gardening?

It’s easy to add a "Please consider the

environment before printing this email"

signature to your email accounts.

One computer left on overnight equals

the use of an entire 60 watt light bulb.

How can we incentivize (=motivitate) people?

We need ideas how we can help them learn this.

We need ideas how to consume less electricity.

Little things count a lot If you are the last person leaving an office or conference room, remember to turn off the lights!

Compared to regular bulbs giving the same amount of visible light, CFLs (Compact Fluorescents) use less power and have a longer rated life In the United States, a CFL can save over US $30 in electricity costs over the lamp's lifetime compared to a regular bulb and save 2000 times its own weight in greenhouse gases.

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Incentives:

Looking Toward the Future:

Our Go-Green Week was such a huge success that we will be doing a “Green Week” once a quarter from here on out Also, some of the things we did might be introduced as regular company policies

Which initiatives from the Go-Green Week should be made mandatory,

do you think?