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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. Beyond that expense you’ll also save money on not buying printers, copiers, fax machines (and fax lines) and a boatload of toner. Still, on-site servers don’t actually help your company reduce your carbon footprint.

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Guest Post: Simple Green Office Practices

Eco-Office Gals

While going paperless and switching to recycled office supplies is usually an executive decision , because going green can be challenging, inconvenient, and let’s be honest, expensive—employers might not be so gung-ho about turning their facilities into an eco-friendly workplace. that will help in the preservation of the environment.

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6 Ways to Reduce Paper Waste and Save Money in Your Office

Eco-Office Gals

If possible, save copies on a computer’s hard drive, instead of printing and filing. If you’re concerned about safety simply back up all of your files to a second hard drive. You can do your banking 24 hours a day all while reducing your company’s carbon footprint. Paper towels are expensive and they’re not very green.

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How to Make Your Workplace Greener

Eco-Office Gals

Though the initial expense may be off-putting, replacing old IT equipment with newer versions can reduce your carbon footprint, and may lower future costs through reducing the need for maintenance. Out with the old, in with the new! In this day and age, simply throwing old computers in the bin won’t cut it.

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Little Green Footsteps

Eco-Office Gals

There are examples of organizations who have successfully eliminated unnecessary paper waste in their organization by digitizing key business processes, such as the mail room, accounts payable, expenses. use; holiday forms, purchase order sign-off, invoice sign off, expenses, just to name a few.

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Domain names, Hosting and WordPress…Oh My! (Part III)

Tips From T. Marie

Your web host collects ‘rent’ and in return gives you space on their server where you can create your website, sort of like moving desks, file cabinets and ficus trees into that office building. You generally pay for a year of hosting up front, although a few hosts offer a monthly fee, although it ends up more expensive. Make sense?

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How Working From Home Can Work For You

The Small Business Blog

While your competitors have to pay out for expensive office space that they don’t need as clients dry up, your business can continue to thrive. This will not only save money but it also reduce the carbon footprint of your small business. Massy Said on April 16th, 2010 at 8:26 pm Gas is the absolute worst… so expensive.

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