Contact Information

Mary Baker
Tel:  401-333-7135
mkbaker1@ccri.edu

Jaime Nash
Tel:  401-333-7156
jnash@ccri.edu

Useful Tips

Here's just a sampling of some easy tips to help make our workspaces more 'Green."

Instead of printing email, create a folder on your computer and organize it into subfolders by name or subject, and refer back to the folder when you need to draw information.

Rather than printing and/or photocopying multi-page documents on one side of paper, set your office printer/photocopier to print double-sided by default and save half the amount of paper your company would normally use.

Start a bring-your-own coffee mug policy for the break room and ditch the foam cups.

Bring real plants into the office. Fake greenery might be low-maintenance, but the real thing adds beauty and oxygen to your surroundings and is a great way to keep your workplace cool.

Turn off any equipment that doesn’t need to be on when you’re not in the office, and -- if possible -- unplug them too. Every computer left turned on overnight and every coffee pot left plugged in eats up electricity and costs your company money.

Make it a habit to turn off the lights when you're leaving any room for 15 minutes or more and utilize natural light when you can.

When you receive unwanted catalogs, newsletters, magazines, or junk mail, request to be removed from the mailing list before you recycle the item. 

The above tips have been adapted from the sites below:

http://www.workplace-mag.com/14-tips-for-staying-green-at-the-office.html

http://greenliving.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_green_workplace#ixzz0CxWHrZQJ&A

http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/2007/03/10_ways_to_go_g.html