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Why Your Business Should Embrace the Cloud

Eco-Office Gals

We’ve long hailed the benefits of going paperless as a way to decrease your company’s carbon footprint. At the same time, PEW Research reports that tablet ownership jumped from 3% of the population in 2010 to 34% by May 2013. Still, on-site servers don’t actually help your company reduce your carbon footprint.

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Herman Miller extends use of ocean-bound plastic with Sayl chair 

Workplace Insight

Since its introduction in 2010, the Sayl chair has been a leader in responsible design.?Inspired It was designed from the start as a light, simple, and lower carbon footprint chair in the full-featured task chairs category. That is true for the Sayl chair as improvements continue to be made years and years after launch.

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New Types of Energy Efficient Lighting

Eco-Office Gals

Energy efficiency has become more prominent as individuals, commerce and industry become more conscious of their carbon footprints. Graphene is an allotrope of carbon that manifests itself as graphite arranged into a honeycomb pattern one atom thick. Today, lighting is about more than illumination. Light Emitting Diodes.

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Green Energy: Simple Ways to Save Money and Protect the Environment

Eco-Office Gals

Replacing an old, gas system with an A-rated condensing boiler could save you hundreds of pounds a year and reduce your carbon footprint. All electronic products sold in the EU after 2010 cannot have a standby power greater than one watt and many have standby savers – reducing the amount of power you use.

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Smartphones May Soon Double As Air Pollution Monitors

Eco-Office Gals

In 2010, however, Apple changed the game once again by introducing the world to its current idea of the tablet computer in the form of the iPad. Five Carbon Footprint Saving iPhone Apps for Business. photo by: Mr. T in DC. Post from: Eco-Office Gals Smartphones May Soon Double As Air Pollution Monitors.

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EarthTalk: Impact of Spending Time Online

Eco-Office Gals

While the energy usage required to run its cloud services (Google Search, Google+, Gmail and YouTube) seems huge in the aggregate—it used 260 megawatt hours to power its data centers in 2010—it boils down to only 7.4 kilowatt hours worth of energy annually per user. In an April 2011 report entitled “How Dirty is your Data?”

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How Working From Home Can Work For You

The Small Business Blog

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. How Working From Home Can Work For You by Stefan Töpfer on Apr 14, 2010 As regular readers of my blog will know I strongly believe that working from home is one of the best ways to do business. Paul Said on April 16th, 2010 at 7:33 am Good article.

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