Your small company decided to a Go-Green Week because a lot of you [the employees] have been asking for it Every day you will something green Your goal is to have the maximum positive impact for the environment while also decreasing your expenses IN 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: BRAINSTORMING FROM FIRST MEETING Sending out about 1000 emails/day That’s at least 1000 printouts/day at other companies 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! How could we encourage other companies not to print our emails? Can we change conventional light bulbs to more energy efficient ones? Replace all disposable paper products by 100% recycled paper products Set up carpools, encourage people to bike, or walk to work Switch all office cleaning products over to eco-friendly ones to eliminate toxins in our waste water How can we incentivize (=motivitate) people? Pass out individual recycling cans for every desk next 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 We have a giant electricity bill One computer left on overnight equals the use of an entire 60 watt light bulb It’s easy to add a "Please consider the environment before printing this email" signature to your email accounts Printing out internal documents double sided can reduce the volume of printouts Do we have time for gardening? Sounds great, but can we also somehow reduce the amount of printing we do? Step Use the helpful information that one of you pulled from the internet [see below] during the discussion Step Decide on one objective for each working day Make sure that everyone is more or less happy with the decision Step Put down the agreed on agenda on the next page 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 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 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, you think?