Doing the green thing at CleanLife
Being a company that promotes healthy, non-toxic and eco-friendly living it would be a little naughty if we didn't live this way ourselves. Luckily for us, for the most part we do! We are a course very very far from perfect but since this week, we are talking 'Green Offices' here is just a few of the things we do to reduce our ecological footprint as a business.
* We operate from a home office and all CleanLife staffers work mostly from their own homes, meaning we have minimal need to transport ourselves each day.
* We have installed insulation, curtains, water saving devices and energy efficient appliances and lighting.
* We purchase 100% greenpower for the CleanLife office (and our home).
* We re-use everything that we can and in fact we are still using the clean side of old paper we have had since before we lived in London (yes prior to 2003!) and envelopes we have had since 2001.
* If we can't re-use things we recycle them. This includes our ink cartridges.
* All our professional printing is on 100% recycled paper with vegetable based inks (from www.theenvironmentalprintingco.com)
* We drink organic and fair trade teas, coffees and hot chocolate.
* We choose organic foods (local if at all possible) for our office meals and our scraps are composted and go onto our garden.
* We also have a relatively new organic vegetable patch, that provides us with some very yummy food and we did have a worm farm, but alas, that died in the Christmas heat, after a year and a half of faithful service (it was a dog poo worm farm, so you can't really blame the worms for wanting to go somewhere a little nicer).
* All our office furniture is second hand with the exception of my chair (the second hand one I was using was doing my back in!!)
* I won't bore you with more of the little things we try to do every day, but we realise that as much as we reduce our useage, we are not perfect (not even close) so we are now on the path to becoming Climate Neutral thanks to a gift from CleanLife staffer Shona. (www.climatefriendly.com).
We would love to hear what other do to green up their office, the important thing to remember that whether you are the head honcho or just starting out at a new place, there is always something little you can do. Try one change a week and make a difference.
* We operate from a home office and all CleanLife staffers work mostly from their own homes, meaning we have minimal need to transport ourselves each day.
* We have installed insulation, curtains, water saving devices and energy efficient appliances and lighting.
* We purchase 100% greenpower for the CleanLife office (and our home).
* We re-use everything that we can and in fact we are still using the clean side of old paper we have had since before we lived in London (yes prior to 2003!) and envelopes we have had since 2001.
* If we can't re-use things we recycle them. This includes our ink cartridges.
* All our professional printing is on 100% recycled paper with vegetable based inks (from www.theenvironmentalprintingco.com)
* We drink organic and fair trade teas, coffees and hot chocolate.
* We choose organic foods (local if at all possible) for our office meals and our scraps are composted and go onto our garden.
* We also have a relatively new organic vegetable patch, that provides us with some very yummy food and we did have a worm farm, but alas, that died in the Christmas heat, after a year and a half of faithful service (it was a dog poo worm farm, so you can't really blame the worms for wanting to go somewhere a little nicer).
* All our office furniture is second hand with the exception of my chair (the second hand one I was using was doing my back in!!)
* I won't bore you with more of the little things we try to do every day, but we realise that as much as we reduce our useage, we are not perfect (not even close) so we are now on the path to becoming Climate Neutral thanks to a gift from CleanLife staffer Shona. (www.climatefriendly.com).
We would love to hear what other do to green up their office, the important thing to remember that whether you are the head honcho or just starting out at a new place, there is always something little you can do. Try one change a week and make a difference.
posted by Gina Cacho | 12:52 AM
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