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Even More Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint in the Office

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Not only does reducing their carbon footprint helps the environment, but it also helps business. Check out the list below: Go Paperless – Are you still printing out documents and sending correspondence through the postal service? Since they’ve been comprised of old materials, it essentially helps to save natural resources.

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Why Your Business Should Embrace the Cloud

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We’ve long hailed the benefits of going paperless as a way to decrease your company’s carbon footprint. It’s important to note, though, that when your office does go paperless you will have to find someplace to store your files. Still, on-site servers don’t actually help your company reduce your carbon footprint.

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How Paperless Meetings Can Help the Environment and the Office

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Offices spend a lot of resources on paper, while the environment suffers from the carbon that paper usage emits. Paperless meetings are conducted in digital rooms that provide tools and online document repositories to simulate face-to-face meetings through different computer devices. Online document storage saves the environment.

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Sustainable Business Practices for 6 Popular Industries

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Although our nation once relied on the concept of reducing, reusing, and recycling to lessen our environmental impact, many businesses are now turning to sustainability development as a means of reducing our overall carbon footprints and protecting the environment. Here are six in particular: . Sustainability in the 21st Century.

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The Paperless Society: A dream or a necessity?

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We have made impressive strides in that direction however with the use of e-mail, word processing, document management systems and the ability to scan documents. What kind of global footprint are you leaving? Click here for a link that gives good information on what a carbon footprint is and how to measure it.

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How to Make Your Workplace Greener

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Perhaps one of the most obvious is to print fewer documents; with the advent of email this is now easier than ever, and a quick internal email can replace the old fashioned memo, and save a sheet of paper in the process. If a document must be printed, ensure that double-sided printing is used, as this will halve the amount of required paper.

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Why the Cloud is Green

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Because real time communications, web conferencing, chatting, and synced mobile phones can eliminate the need for expensive business trips and unnecessary commuting, the cloud will reduce your carbon footprint as well. Sync your files online and collaborate in real-time. The cloud saves paper.