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Tips to Green Your Business

Vampires at Home and Office

Yes, Vampires occupy your home and office. However, these are not the kind from True Blood but rather the kind that suck electricity even when you don’t know it.

Ten to fifteen percent of the power in a building may be consumed by vampires like wall chargers and appliances. This wastes energy and adds heat to your home, making your a/c work harder. Here are four ideas to help reduce this waste and your power bill.

Picture this: You just upgraded and replaced your computer systems. You invested thousands of dollars on equipment, and you spent countless hours evaluating every feature and function of the hardware, but you barely considered what to do with the decommissioned computers. Since you need to protect your data, and you are concerned for the environment, you just keep the equipment. Consequently, it is now in a storage room, creating a business risk. Sound familiar?

Printing (and NOT Printing) Responsibly

As a long-time graphic designer and lover of print, it’s not always easy to reconcile my environmental passions with my devotion to paper and ink. However, given the stringent economic times we’ve experienced lately, combined with the increasing momentum of the green and sustainable “wave”, we are all finding ways to print less, print digitally, print on recycled, print on tree-free, and at times, not print at all. Here’s a brief rundown on printing sustainably and responsibly.