LUCKIEST,

This is a great topic. Honestly, my company started a "Go Green" initiative at the beginning of 2011. We actually had a designated group assembled through the first quarter of 2011 to implement changes to make us a more environmentally friendly company. Although most consulting firms are already pretty environmentally friendly, there was a few things we were able to do to increase our Go Green initiative.

1) Converting 90% of our paperwork over to electronic forms. We also purchased electronic signature pads so that contracts and agreements could be electronically signed by our clients, preventing printing, rescanning, printing again. Lots of paper was being wasted there.

2) Conserving energy by using motion sensors for our lighting in our office. This way if someone leaves their office but forgets to turn out the lights, the system automatically does so to conserve energy.

3) Promoting car pools for employees commuting into work. We actually had a huge success with this program and even offered incentives to employees who were part of a car pool.

There are some other smaller things we did, like purchasing eco-friendly products for our office supplies, etc. These were just a few I felt like sharing with the group.

Regards,

Dan

Interesting topic!  As a tech company we are pretty much paperless except for when the legal folks require us to have something on physical paper. One of our missions is to reduce the paper waste generated by traditional coupons and promotions and we feel that we should try to set a good example ourselves.  One of our guys drives a Volt and there is a charging station out in the parking lot. He told me the other day that he has driven over 2600 miles on less than 22 gallons of gas (lots of short commutes)! One of our other guys lives close enough to work that he rides his bicycle to work. While these two individuals do this entirely on their own accord, we are looking into some incentives to help encourage eco-conscious habits among the entire team!

Does anyone have any experience with programs promoting eco-friendly behavior from the employers perspective?

Great topic! Help green the world is a top priority for our business. We partner with businesses that promote the green cause. Take a look at one of our business partners' green initiative at http://www.green.globalvodo.com/ This is an online fundraising website that lets organizations and/or fundraisers to go 100% green while raising funds for their causes from the start to the finish line. It may be of interest.

Thanks!

Trying to go green is a great thing to do, but make sure the green solutions you are trying are truly green.

An example of what I mean is replacing incandescent light bulb with CFL's.  Yes the CFL may use less power, but they also have mercury in them that can be released if they are broken or thrown away. 

So yes go green, but truly green.

~Paul

Going green by using CD Messenger. CD Messenger is an Inter office messenger. Now i don't need to use intercom to establish communcation with colleagues. Replaced paper sticky notes but its programmed sticky notes feature.

http://www.cdmessenger.com

My goal is to go totally paperless by the end of the year.. Paperless Office here I come