Best Practices - Environmental

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

Ask your team members to get involved at home. Many of the kids would be absolutely SHOCKED to see the monthly electrical bill. Then have them track it month to month and submit ideas for cutting down on their own usage.

I open their eyes when I tell my team members that my plant spent $380,000 last month on electricity alone!

You guys at the plant need to switch off some lights!

No, seriously: Going Green is rarely some huge plan that'll save humanity* from its own foibles. Instead, it is the small things that, when we ALL do them, has a significant impact. One of these is just switching electrical things off when you don't need them.

Turn off lights when you leave the room. For bulbs that stay on more than an hour or two a day**, swap out an incandescent for a compact fluorescent.

Turn off your computer when you leave it for more than an hour or two. Power save mode cuts consumption a bit, but off is off. Same with that printer.


* The earth does not need saving, it'll do fine whether we're extinct or not, thanks.
** A CF bulb in an outdoor fixture uses less electricity when switched on 24/7 than an equivalent Incandescent on a timer that's only on during darkness.