Greening the office and making it more environmentally friendly continues and we couldn't do it without your help...
Give Green This Holiday
THIS MONTH'S SIMPLE STEP
MAKE THE HOLIDAYS A LITTLE GREENER... LAST MINUTE SHOPPERS TAKE NOTE...
Give gift cards. Gift cards, concert tickets, and movie vouchers are a great alternative to heavily packaged and wrapped holiday presents. Did you know that if 50 percent of households replaced just two packaged presents with gifts that could slide inside an envelope, fifty million pounds or more of waste could be saved?
Give clean air. Buy carbon credits to offset your carbon usage. Click here to see one possible company offering this. As you probably know Townline sent an e-holiday card (instead of a paper card) this Christmas and made a sizable donation to save the Great Bear Rainforest (the largest coastal temperatural rainforest remaining and located here in BC).
Click here to learn more.
Take your Down To Earth shopping bag.
When heading out to do holiday shopping (or to grab boxing day deals), bring your Townline re-usable Down to Earth bag instead of using more disposable plastic ones.
EASY GREEN HOLIDAY WRAPPING TIPS
Don't wrap your presents, use re-usable bags or baskets. If you must use wrapping paper, check to ensure that it contains recycled content.
Reduce waste by re-using big pieces of wrapping paper again next year. A scary waste thought...Between Thanksgiving and New Year's, Americans produce an extra two billion pounds of garbage per week, the majority of which is from gift wrapping!
Stay on Santa's Good Green List this holiday season around the office too... Take that extra simple step to ensure you're printing and photocopying double-sided...recycling all your paper...and all the other simple steps Townline has been promoting this year.
Keener Greener Update
The first Keener Greener will be recognized at this Friday's open house. New Year...New Green Resolutions...
Watch your mailboxes in January, the next Green Mail will suggest some Green Resolutions you can keep.
The Green Team
Statistic Source - The Green Book, 2007
Green Mail is Townline's internal office strategy as part of the Down To Earth commitment to greening up the office on a a day-to-day basis by reducing the use of office supplies, energy, etc.
You can view our previous updates here.
- Green Mail - Composting
- Green Mail - Green Holiday Wrapping Tips
- Green Mail - Office Greening
- Green Mail - Drink More Water, Save the Earth
- Green Mail - Recycle Paper
- Green Mail - Around the Townline Office
Do you have a Down To Earth suggestion for us? Please get in touch with us to share your idea.
