John Reeve at Digital Web Magazine published an excellent article yesterday: How to Build a Green Business. The article covers many things you can do to build an eco-friendly business, and clearly defines some buzzwords like “sustainability”.
5 take-away points from the article
- Recycle everything you can, including old electronic equipment and inkjet cartridges.
- Reduce your consumption of everything, including power (turn things off when not in use) and paper (don’t print emails).
- Use green products: everything from post-consumer waste recycled paper to green cleaning products.
- Alternative commuting, including taking the bus, biking, working from home, carpooling and driving energy-efficient vehicles.
- Revamp your product line by eliminating the inefficient and harmful.
Check out the article for more great ideas on running an environmentally-friendly and ethical business. Share your ideas in the comments on how you you run an ethical and environmentally-friendly wedding business.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Great tips! Our office (my real job) consumes so much paper. We deal with patient data, and they haven’t quite made the switch in thinking to electronic is better, cheaper and easier.