Tag: Eco-Friendly Office

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  Print Optimization Software Earns PrintEco Green Start-Up of the Year

  Goodbye to one-liners on a new page: Print softwear wins big at the Opportunity Green Conference in Los Angeles.

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  Nature Takes Over the Office in Downtown Denver

  In this wired era, it's easy to let the office creep into every part of life, even time spent in nature, by checking email from the beach or taking a work call while out on the trail. But what if the tables were turned, and

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  Replacing Boxes With Bags, Office Depot Tries to Save 20,000 Trees

  Office Depot says it expects to save 3.5 million pounds of wood-based resources by offering to deliver orders in paper bags instead of boxes—which will also eliminate the use of those plastic 'air-pillows' that

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  Moving? Box Rental Company Good Boxes Delivers and Eliminates the Cardboard Waste

  You have to buy cardboard boxes or find clean, undamaged ones. Then there's

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  California Sheriff's Dept Aims For Paperless Office

  However ubiquitous the 'save paper, don't print this email' email signature is, people are still doing just that. But the Sheriff's office in San Bernardino County is smartening up and has paper, the San Bernardino County

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  Company Gives Bonuses to Workers Who Recycle

  "Memo to Staff: As you know, our company is committed to the environment, blah blah blah. We're encouraging all of you to recycle." Not very convincing, right? And you've probably read something terribly similar if

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  7 Major Companies to Drop Sustainable Forestry Initiative Label Due to Greenwashing Claims

  The 'eco-certification' offered by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, long known among TreeHuggers as a greenwashing outlet, will now be dropped by seven major companies, including Aetna, Allstate, Symantec, and Office Depot.

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  An Office With Enough Trees and Sunlight, You'll Think You're Outside (Photos)

  Talk about an urban jungle. In Paris' tenth arronidissement, two companies, Pons and Huot, share one of the more remarkable offices in the city. "Forest Through the Table," the work of

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  The Hub, a Shared Work Space for People Who Care. In a City near You!

  Working in shared office spaces is an attractive solution for creative start-ups, and has become more and more sought-after in many of the bigger cities. Green Spaces in Manhattan has turned into a well-working

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  An Indoor Mini-Oasis for Harried Office Workers

  It won't quite replace the feeling of lying on the grass underneath a big shade tree, but office workers and others needing a respite in the middle of the day would likely welcome a

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  Fed Ex Makes Major Move Towards Sustainability: All New Buildings Will Be LEED Certified

  Over the last few years, Fed Ex has been on something of a sustainability warpath: from converting 92 delivery trucks to diesel hybrids in 2009 to building a solar-powered facility in Cologne,

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  Ask Pablo: Metal vs. Plastic Cutlery

  Variations of this question have been asked and

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  Sustainsia's Eco-Workpod: Portable Office Shed Is "All About The Curves"

  Ah, cubicles: you can either ditch 'em for an open-plan office space or put all the bells and whistles you can on them. Or you might even forgo the office entirely to work from home instead -- perhaps in your very own eco-friendly

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  Radical Product Transparency Via Carbon Mapping- Highlight from Opportunity Green

  This past Thursday, at the business conference Opportunity Green, one panel entitled Next Generation Carbon Mapping: Radical Transparency and Truth in Advertising captured the attention of the standing room only audience at

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  Fired for Commuting to Work on a Segway? No Way!

  Could you get fired for riding your Segway to work? What if it needs a charge to get you back home again so you plug it in to your employer's socket?

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  Your Office is In Your Pants: 6 Trends Shaping The Way We Work

  In 1985, in the Harvard Business Review Philip Stone and Robert Luchetti foresaw in 1985 at the birth of the wireless phone that the era of the that you went to and sat at a desk was over; they noted that Your

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  No Sharks Were Harmed In New Addition to Discovery Headquarters

  Discovery Headquarters (Parent to TreeHugger) is already LEED Platinum for its operations, with extensive recycling and water reduction programs.

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  Learning From The Past, Designing For The Future: How They Air Conditioned In India 400 Years Ago

  It is hot in Rajasthan, India. Four hundred years ago when building palaces, they installed air conditioning to beat the heat. Caroline Howe of It's Getting Hot in Here explains: In Rajasthan,