10 Tips To Help You Green Your Office

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10 Tips To Help You Green Your Office
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• Going green is fast becoming a way of life for
  many of us at home but how often do we think of
  the offices where we work? If you havent really
  given it much thought nows a good time to start.

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• Its easy to integrate simple routines into your
  work day that will help all of us to lessen the
  impact we have on our Eco-system. Contrary to the
  popular belief that going green will cost you
  more, the reality is you usually will save money
  in the long run. So lets take a look at 10
  simple ways to go green in the office.

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1 Shut down Computers Printers When Not Being
Used

• Just about all of us in just about every business
  now use computers it has become our central
  tool. We all too often forget how much energy
  these machines use and leave them on. Optimize
  the energy settings on these and other devices
  can save a lot of energy over the long run.

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• You can set computers to their energy saving
  settings while using them and shut them down when
  you leave for the day. Dont be fooled by the
  standby setting, the unit will continue to draw
  power in this mode. Dont forget the printers,
  same thing, turn them off when leaving but
  remember to power down ink jet printers because
  they need to seal the cartridges. Lets make this
  easy, put everything you use at your desk on a
  power strip and just push one button when leaving
  and your done!

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2 Go Paperless Wherever You Can

• Even though we sell Eco-friendly ink and toners
  for printers we dont pull any punches and will
  always give you the best thing you can do for the
  environment. You should go digital where ever
  this makes sense for you. There are plenty of
  ways to go digital now with products like Dropbox
  (make this a link).

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• By using this product you can save just about
  everything you used to print and store in a file
  cabinet in electronic form. Anyone in the world
  that has access to the product can open the files
  contained within.  Depending on the settings you
  chose other members of your team can view them,
  edit them and add or delete files.

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• Using software like this you not only save on
  paper but also on office space because you
  greatly reduce the amount of filing cabinets you
  need. One other piece of software that helps on
  saving paper is a product called Greenprint
   (make a link to this)which helps to eliminate
  blank pages from documents before printing.

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3 Choose a Font That Saves on Ink

• Your first reaction may very well be like mine,
  how much can just changing fonts save me. It can
  save a ton! A company called Ecofont has a
  product that can save you up to 50 on printing
  cost. Ecofont leaves small holes in each font
  that is not visible to the naked eye thus saving
  on ink.

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• There is also other options you can choose that
  saves paper by printing without unnecessary
  images or printing only small selections from a
  long email conversation. Saving 50 on any line
  item cost in your office is a big deal by
  anyones standard. They offer three versions,
  Home Edition, 3-Pack and Enterprise edition. This
  is probably the easiest and most cost effective
  way to save paper, ink, and money in your office.

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4 Use Smart Power strips

• The use of Power Strips on all of your equipment
  will help to curb the Phantom Load which can
  save you a surprising amount on your electric
  bill. Just shutting off your laser printer when
  youre not using it, for example, could save you
  as much as 120 annually. Imagine if you have a
  fleet of laser printers and you did this to all
  of them, the savings can really add up

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5 Electricity Monitor

• Go to your local hardware store and get an
  Electricity Monitor. Some local libraries will
  even loan you one so you can see where the energy
  hogs are in your office. Again for just a few
  dollars you could very easily save hundreds every
  year.

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6 Switch to LED Light Bulbs

• This is an obvious one but its so important it
  belongs in the top 10 ways to green your office.
  Change those light bulbs to the new LED light
  bulbs. They give the same light for less than
  one-quarter of the electricity and can last for
  up to 20 years. Yes they do cost more than a
  standard light bulb but how long do they last?
  This one is really a no brainer.

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7 Buy less stuff!

• Reduce, re-use and recycle. This is a tough one
  for many of us but by buying less we are helping
  to lower our carbon foot print. All the products
  we buy have to be manufactured somewhere and
  where there is manufacturing you can bet there is
  some form of pollution going on.

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8 Avoid Unnecessary Printing

• Only print what you absolutely need to. If you
  really take a look at what you are printing you
  may be surprised at how much you print a week and
  then toss the printed material in the trash. Any
  web page or document can be saved to your
  computer or in one of many cloud based services.

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9 Choose Eco-friendly office supplies

• Before buying office supplies the next time take
  a few minutes and see if there is an alternative
  that you can buy that is Eco-friendly. There
  still seems to be a misconception out there that
  if you go green it will cost more, that is not
  always the case.

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10 Repair Your Computers

• Repairing your computers is a great way to go
  green and save you a ton of money. Our generation
  seems fixated on always having to buy the newest
  and the fastest. Its amazing the upgrades that
  can be installed on computers to being them back
  to better than new condition and run faster to in
  many cases for much less than it would cost you
  to buy new.

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• We truly hope some of these suggestions will get
  you going on the path to a greener office and as
  always we would love to hear from you on how you
  have taken steps to go green in your office. The
  way I look at it if we all share our ideas it
  makes it easier for all of us.

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