There are plenty of “how to be green” advice lists. Many of them tell you ten, twenty-five, even one hundred ways to go green every day. It can be overwhelming to try to incorporate them all! Sometimes it’s not easy to be green, especially at your office where the needs of your customers come first. At The Suites Collection we’ve found a couple really easy ways to incorporate better environmental practices into our daily routines. We invite you to join us in these three simple ways our shared offices are going green.
SIT, STAY, EAT - Reduce your use of disposable food and drink containers. Whether you pack your lunch in tupperware or sit at a restaurant and enjoy your meal without taking it “to go”, you’ll be doing a good deed for yourself and the earth. We no longer use styrofoam coffee cups in our business centers and encourage our tenants to bring in their own ceramic mugs.
DON’T BE A PAPER PIG - Consider the environment before you print. The old way to keep records was to print everything out and file it away. Now you can just set up an external hard drive to do the back-up work for you! We’ve added this note to the bottom of our emails and we encourage you to do the same. P Please consider the environment before printing this email.
GIVE IT A REST – A modern computer runs at about 175 watts when sitting idle, that’s the equivalent of leaving the light on in three rooms of your house. Windows has power-saving settings that can be easily tweaked to keep the waste to a minimum. We use these settings throughout the week and every Friday we shut our computers down so that they don’t consume energy over the weekend.
That’s all there is to this list. We’re doing our best to do even more, but even these simple rules really do help. After all, our earth can only take so much waste so we need to take care of it in any way we can.
