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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Corporate Responsibility -- Environment

Recycle
Use clean energy where applicable
Conservation

Environment has to be apart of your culture, document environment as a priority in your vision and values.

There are dozens of companies that manage this process for you, especially when it comes to your record retention and privacy policy requirements. When disposing of paper, electronics, plastic, etc. Set the proper systems that makes this process really easy for your employees, or better yet solicit your team for ideas on how to be more environmentally friendly. Choose a team lead and hold them accountable to the ideas they come up with.

This proposition can be more expensive than others, however solutions can be solar energy, hydro electric and so on.

Conservation is the easiest of things to do, below are some ideas...

Thermostat regulation
Water conservation
Purchase recycled paper
Turn off lights and electronics as apart of your closing procedure
Use verbal communication whenever possible
Reduce print advertising
No full bleed prints
Print digitally
etc.

When making this apart of your organization, remember its not about perfect its about progress. Imagine if every single business in the world just did two of the recommendations above. How much impact would it have in cost alone, not to mention the environment.

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