Turn Your Company Green

Start a "Green Team" in your company (if there isn't one already). Once the team is formed, start with a few small projects. Adding a few recycling bins for office paper, magazines, plastic bottles and aluminum cans is a good place to start; the bins serve as visual reminders to think about the environment and the materials collected are easily recycled in most communities.

Other Short-Term Projects

• Encourage people to use less paper
• Use office paper with some recycled content (ideally 100% post-consumer)
  
• Turn off lights when you leave a room
• Recycle toner cartridges
• Recycle old electronics
• Encourage people to use reusable mugs for coffee
• Provide incentives to people who walk, bike, or carpool to work
  

Long-Term Projects

• Install motion-sensing light switches in bathrooms, break areas, etc.
• Install photosensitive dimmers on fluorescent lights to reduce their output when adequate sunlight is present
• Install solar panels or purchase renewable energy
• If your company has extra land, start a "community" garden for employees
• Compost food scraps

This is just a short list of what I am working to implement at the company I work for. There are plenty of other opportunities that I have omitted.