Your top 10 ideas that YOU can do to green our organization:
- Turn off the lights if you are the last person to leave a room
- Turn off computers, printers, and monitors at the end of the work day
- Remove personal refrigerators, space heaters, coffee mug warmers, and fans
- Use your own coffee mug and utensils
- Recycle, reduce, and reuse paper
- Schedule more video and teleconferences to avoid travel
- Send faxes and documents electronically instead of using the fax machine
- Turn off the TV in break rooms when not in use
- Provide electronic versions of promotional material and online registrations
- Provide information to workshop participants by email or web download
Your top 10 ideas that OCDE has implemented to green our organization:
- Provided eco-friendly products in break rooms and restrooms
- Contracted with new vendor to sort and recycle trash
- Posted signs in break rooms that OCDE is going green to inform our guests on campus
- Provided the employee newsletter online to reduce the amount of paper being used
- Changed light fixtures to more energy efficient bulbs
- Restructured timing of meeting room lights in building D to conserve energy
- Re-programmed thermostats to reduce energy costs
- Monitoring electrical use with SCE( Southern California Edison) to strategize ways to reduce our energy consumption
- Installing weather stripping on all entry doors to decrease energy loss
- New environmentally friendly latex balloons available in Facilities