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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. To reduce your carbon footprint and cut the cost of copy paper, copier maintenance, and ink, try going paperless. Buy Used – Wherever you can, look for an opportunity to purchase used or refurbished items.

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Credit cards going green

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Offsetting their carbon footprint: Credit card companies are administratively intensive with a large amount of energy used by the thousands of computers that are required to ensure credit card transactions are possible. photo by: Images_of_Money.

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Guest Post: Simple Green Office Practices

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Not only will you reduce your carbon footprint, but you can also save a bundle on gas money as well. Another option is to buy clothes from thrift stores and consignment shops rather than purchasing them new at department stores. Believe it or not, there are tons clothes made from organic cotton, wool and hemp-based materials.

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

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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. Make an inventory of everything that’s being printed.

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Little Green Footsteps

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use; holiday forms, purchase order sign-off, invoice sign off, expenses, just to name a few. However, we cannot operate a business today without IT and suspect in most cases the incremental service cost and carbon footprint required to make these changes are significantly less the storing and shipping around unnecessary paper based files.

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

Tips From T. Marie

You now know the difference between the two versions of WordPress , and what a domain name is and how to choose and purchase one. 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.

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Why the Cloud is Green

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In other words, you don’t have to purchase an entire package of unneeded gadgets and circuits just to get the one you do need. Sync your files online and collaborate in real-time. Many cloud services use a pay-as-you-go model. The cloud saves paper.