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In the modern office, various forms of technology are the central tools that keep you up-and-running. As a result, most offices’ electricity consumption is astronomical—which isn’t good for the environment or for your wallet.

As you know, electricity use is only one of many ways that we, as consumers, burn fossil fuels, thereby adding to the pollution. While some of this use is inevitable, there are simple steps that can be done to prevent some waste. Set the following tips in motion at your office and both the environment and your wallet with thank you:

• Set computers to energy-saving settings and make sure to shut them down when you leave for the day. This does not mean leaving them in standby settings, which continues to draw power.
• Plug your hardware into a power strip with an on/off switch and turn off the entire system when you are done.компютри
• Unplug cell phone chargers (or other appliances) when they aren’t in use. By some estimates, 95 percent of the power drawn by chargers is wasted when you leave it plugged into the wall. That means that only 5 percent is actually used to charge phones.
• Replace your light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) or LEDs, both of which are significantly more energy efficient than the commonly-used incandescent light bulb. If you go with CFLs, however, remember to recycle them properly when the time comes, since it could be dangerous to throw the mercury-laced bulbs in the trash.
• If you only use them occasionally, simply unplug printers, scanners and other peripherals until you need to use them again.
• Just like your parents always told you, turn off lights in area that are aren’t being used.

Now that you’ve started using every single piece of paper in your office twice, you may ask—what do I do for those business cards, brochures, receipts, invoices, letterhead…. anything that doesn’t come off of that office printer? There is a simple solution, of course. Choose a green printer. But don’t just take the printer’s word for it that the company does its best to protect the environment. Make sure it has the stamp of approval from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an international organization that brings people together to find solutions which promote responsible stewardship of the world’s forests.

In order to meet FSC’s strict standards for certification, green printers’ processes include:

·        Recycling paper and inks

·        Using vegetable-based inks for print

·        Using pastes as ink for digital presses

·        Using FSC-certified paper and print products

By following these standards, the printers cause less harm to the environment and contribute to conservation, responsible management, and community-level benefits for people near the forests that provide paper.

To find a FSC-certified printer, go here: http://www.fscus.org/paper/ and then click on the “Certified Printers” pdf file on the right.

Just think, if enough companies switch over to FSC-certified printers, the FSC system might actually meet its goal—to eliminate habitat destruction, water pollution, displacement of indigenous peoples and violence against people and wildlife that often accompanies logging.

Making your office greener can be as simple as skipping your next visit to Staples or Office Depot. Instead, head on over to The Green Office, which is as close as your keyboard (www.thegreenoffice.com).

This online retailer sells calendars, briefcases and pens, batteries, printers, phones, calculators, ink and toner, furniture, cleaning supplies, cups, snacks and utensils. In other words, they have everything that your local office supplier has. And they specialize in recycled, environmentally-friendly and sustainable business supplies

In this store each product is rated on a variety of key indicators of social and environmental responsibility: recycled content; biodegradability or compostability; number of reductions met in chemical content; and if it is third-party certified. There is even an indicator if a product is simply a conventional product and doesn’t meet any special green standards. This category is included since—unfortunate as it is—it is simply impossible to be 100 percent green. And this way you don’t have to shop more than one place.

So, next time you go office supply shopping, head to your computer and pick the certified nontoxic pencils; water-based ink pens; acid-free, recycled paper; bowls made from sugar cane; and shelves made from post-consumer recycled steel content.

Just because you are using a green hosting company—thereby reducing your carbon footprint on the environment—it’s not time to sit back and revel in knowing that your job is done. As you know, the environment needs as much help from us as we can give, and it will not take care of itself. Thankfully, there are additional small things that you can do to reduce environmental harm, which will only take little time and effort from you. And it really is the small things that add up!

One easy way to reduce your environmental footprint is to reduce the paper that you use by half. OK, maybe not half—but close to half. How, you ask? Reprint on the back of used paper before you recycle it.

After all, we only need much of what we print temporarily—and it is ultimately going to be discarded anyway. So, when you go to a meeting and get a stack of papers, remember to print on the back of those pages before recycling them. Or, when you get a sales letter in the mail, remember to print on the back of those pages before recycling them. Or, when you print something to show to a colleague, remember to print on the back of those pages before recycling them. …. You get the idea.

The logistics of printing on the backs of pages only takes a bit of planning. If you have your own dedicated printer, just keep it stocked with “recycled” paper and switch to “clean” sheets before a print job that requires it. If you share printers with colleagues, simply dedicate one printer to “clean” paper and another to “recycled” paper. Once everyone in the office gets used to the system, you’ll be amazed at how well the system works. Plus, you’ll ultimately save money, too. After all, when you use less “clean” paper, you’ll spend less money to purchase that new “clean” paper.