Tourism Vancouver Island has been looking for ways to limit the office’s environmental impact. One of the main ways we have achived this is by implementing mixed recycling pick-up. At our previous office location, we had paper recycling in place, but we noticed that there were alot of recyclable materials that were going into the trash because of our lack of recycling facilities.
With a weekly pick-up of items ranging from tin cans, plastic containers, plastic grocery bag and newspapers, we are seeing a dramatic decrease in the amount of material in our trashcans.
Taking action with baby steps, such as recycling and composting, can produce dramatic results in limiting your company’s carbon footprint. Even when you think the end result will be insignificant, or that your company won’t have that big of an impact, think again. No change is too small to go unnoticed by Mother Earth.
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I bought a book called Change the World for Ten Bucks, 50 ways to make a difference written by “We Are What We Do” (a nonprofit group). I thought I would share a few of the ideas that can be used in the workplace that can make a big difference.
#1 Take Public Transit: “A bus Carries the same number of people as 50 cars.”
#2 Recycle your Mobile Phone and Computer: “9.3 million mobile phones are replaced in Canada every year.” Go to www.pitch-in.ca to find a collection center nearest you.
#3 Use a mug not a disposable Cup: “Canadians use over 8 billion disposable cups per year.”
#4 Use both sides of EVERY piece of paper: “It’s estimated that 170 million trees are cut down every year for the paper that is used in Canadian offices.”
The best part is there are 46 more ways to change the world in this fantastick book!!
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Convert Your Vehicle To Electricity
I think by now most people have heard of “Global Warming”. We are somewhat familiar with the term. Unfortunately though it doesn’t have a big impact on our lives, or so we think. People are too preoccupied with their own immediate concerns and day to day problems. Some of us might even be familiar with “receding glaciers” “stranded polar bears” or the name Al Gore, “but it doesn’t really affect me”.
Too bad people don’t think more in terms of being a team player, and not just among us humans, but animals, plants, all of nature. Despite all our huge successes as a species, if we end up destroying our planet, we will ultimately be judged as a species that failed and failed big time! Since we should have known better, we’ll be rated dumber than the dinosaur.
There are some people that do care, and there is plenty of information on the subject. Tips & Techniques on what we can do to help fight GW. One of the easiest if not THE easiest tip I’m aware of that surprisingly is not mentioned enough is Stop Idling Your Car. Think of it folks it doesn’t get much easier than turning a key.
You see people everyday leaving their car with the engine running while they just pick something up from the grocery store, or just go to the bank machine, or just pick up their dry cleaning, or just pick up the pizza they ordered, or just …etc etc.
Everyone seems to think “Oh come on, what’s my one little car going to do when there are billions of them all over the planet”? This is our big mistake right here folks, in that way of thinking. Collectively we created Global Warming, collectively we need to solve it.
We need signs, lots and lots of signs that say “This is an idle free zone” There no reason why every truck loading dock in the world shouldn’t be an idle free zone.
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