Archives for the ‘Workplace’ Category

Commentary: Standardized Reusable Shipping Containers Needed

By Wesley Joseph • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Business, Energy, General, Pollution, Recent Posts, Recycling, Resource Waste Reduction, Workplace

Change over shipping containers to reusables? Why not?



Greener Under Twenty: Reusable Lint Brush

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Household, Recent Posts, Workplace

Green your wardrobe care with less than $20 and in less than 20 minutes!



Five Simple Ways to Green Your Life Today

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Chemicals, Climate Change, Household, News and Media, Products and Shopping, Recent Posts, Recycling, Resource Waste Reduction, Transportation, Workplace

Check out five simple approaches to a greener life, starting today!



Environ|Mental: Keep Talking About the Environment

By Wesley Joseph • Jun 28th, 2008 • Category: Products and Shopping, Recent Posts, Recycling, Resource Waste Reduction, Workplace

Subtly talking about more ecologically sound practices, such as reducing waste, recycling, and using more eco-friendly products is often enough to spurn the thoughts in others. You can exert healthy peer pressure to do what is right.



Reusable Paper: Disappearing Ink

By Matthew Philip • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Business, Resource Waste Reduction, Workplace

According to an article I recently found on Cnet.com, titled: New Way to Save Energy: Disappearing Ink, technology is currently being developed to create paper than can be reused instead of thrown away or recycled.
Ultimately, there is something to be said for being able to hold a piece of paper in your hand for viewing [...]



Usable? Giveaway, Not Throw Away!

By Wesley Joseph • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Household, Pollution, Recycling, Resource Waste Reduction, Workplace

What do I do with my old electronics? I know the feeling. You have something new but the older version, the one you replaced, still works. Let’s say you replaced your ink jet printer with a laser jet printer all-in-one, printer, copier, scanner, and fax. But your old printer still works and [...]



Environ|Mental: Making Excuses vs. Having an Excuse

By Wesley Joseph • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Workplace

This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Environ|MentalThe Environ|Mentality: There is usually a way to make your consumption less envirohumanly toxic, but there is also usually an available excuse you can make. Overcome that temptation by realizing a little effort goes a long way.

We all have done it: “I’m in too [...]



Saved: Leather Desk Chair

By Wesley Joseph • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Household, Resource Waste Reduction, Workplace

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series “Saved”One day at work I was heading down the elevator when the doors opened up on another tenant’s floor. I could not help but notice a leather desk chair in perfect condition (at least to the naked eye). It had two neon orange [...]



EHI Quick Tip: Ride the Elevators Less at Work

By Wesley Joseph • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Health, Workplace

This entry is part 15 of 16 in the series EHI Quick TipsTwo floors down or one floor up, use the elevators. That’s the rule. It used to go for reducing congestion at elevators. But now it also would mean reducing your negative envirohuman impact, because when an elevator has to move [...]