1、Until last week I collected interview notes and e-mail exchanges and Web downloads on my computer, then printed and sorted, underlined and typed until I had a column. Something about holding papers, and rearranging them, fired up my brain.But this week, when it came time to press “print” on my dozen
2、s of pages of data, I froze. All that wasted paper. And ink. And electricity. Werent computers supposed to have led to the paperless office? Why was my desk piled with byproducts of felled trees?So here I am, electronically cutting and pasting and being part of a trend. Green is to this decades work
3、place what flexible hours were to the last.Pick a company, and you are increasingly likely to find a plan. Some are ambitious, building energy-saving factories from renewable recyclable materials. Some are modest, aiming to change the behavior of individual workers.That last part, which seems as if
4、it should be the easiest, is meeting some resistance. A poll for Randstad USA by Harris Interactive found that over all, 77 percent of the 2,079 respondents said they recycle, but only 49 percent said they do so at work. In the survey, conducted from Jan. 17 to 21 online, 93 percent reported turning
5、 off lights and computers when they leave home. But only 50 percent flip the off switch when they leave work for the night.In spite of this ambivalence, some companies are mandating double-sided copying, paper recycling or electronic faxes only. Others save electricity by installing timers on lights
6、 and automating computer shutdowns.Businesses are even subsidizing gasoline conservation. At the RSUI Group, an insurance underwriter in Atlanta, an employee who relinquishes a parking pass and takes mass transit or joins a van pool is paid $60 a month. Workers at the Meradia Group, a Philadelphia b
7、usiness consulting concern, are given $5,000 if they buy a hybrid car. Meradia also puts blue recycling bins under desks so employees dont have to walk across the room to deposit an empty water bottle.Unsurprisingly, water bottles are under attack. Last year, the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray stopped
8、 buying them for office meetings, replacing them with pitchers and glasses. That conserved 4,000 bottles in the first month alone.Coffee cups are on the radar screen, too, although there seems to be some disagreement over what is actually best for the environment. At the 233 offices of the advertisi
9、ng company Euro RSCG Worldwide, paper has been replaced with glass, to cut down on landfill. At the Skyline Downtown Salon in Kansas City, Mo., glass has been replaced with paper, so the dishwasher doesnt have to be run more than once a day. And the 9,000 employees of the Capital Group Companies, a
10、financial management firm, use disposable cups made from biodegradable cornstarch, and plates and bowls made of sugar cane.Not all the green initiatives come from management. Many are driven by determined employees, waving their recyclable pompoms and cheering on the laggards.Andrew Granchelli, for
11、instance. Although his employer, Newman Communications, in Brighton, Mass., professed interest in recycling, he said, it claimed to be hamstrung by the owners of its office building, who refused to put out separate containers for paper, plastic and glass.So Mr. Granchelli and a co-worker, Rachel Rau
12、sch, put bins in a central part of the office. Roughly once a week, Mr. Granchelli puts the soup cans, soda bottles and plastic iced-tea containers in his car trunk, then adds them to his household recycling. Ms. Rausch takes at least a box of paper out to her car daily and, during her weekly grocer
13、y shopping, puts it in bins provided by a company that raises money for charity by recycling.Employees at LPA Inc., an architecture firm in Irvine, Calif., take home more than bottles and paper. The more than 100 employees participate in an on-site composting program, and trash bins are provided for
14、 food waste that appeals to worms (coffee grounds, for example). The waste goes into a “worm habitat” in the office, and the “worm wrangler” (a volunteer) cares for them and divides the resulting compost among employees to use in their gardens.The saving of the planet is also employee-driven at I Lo
15、ve Rewards, a Toronto company that develops employee productivity incentives. Amy Cole leads the companys social responsibility committee, which in the last six months has created a recycling program and a bike-to-work program (which includes a sign-up sheet for a shared company bike) and has instal
16、led timers on the coffee machine and the office refrigerator.Those timers were added, she explained, because the coffee maker is used only until 3 p.m. daily and the lounge refrigerator runs only on Fridays, when it holds the ingredients for “our signature corporate cocktail, the RedPoint,” a whiske
17、y sour spiked with Red Bull that traditionally ends the workweek. The electricity that would be saved in a year is $686.40. Which pays for more coffee and RedPoints.Things get a little competitive when employees start to monitor and measure. The May issue of Discover magazine will include a “Carbon
18、Footprint Challenge,” urging readers to reduce their impact on the environment, and while preparing the article, the magazine looked in its own backyard at the environmental impact of its reporting and printing, and at the lifestyles of its 35 employees.Using a “Cool Climate Calculator” designed by
19、a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, Discover found that Patrice Adcroft, its editorial director, was the most carbon neutral living in Manhattan, where the magazine has its offices, and walking wherever she could though she still created carbon emissions that were three tim
20、es the worlds average.In contrast, Michael Di Ioia, the creative director, commutes 46,000 miles by bus each year between his home in Pennsylvania and work. Since learning that he was the worst polluter of the lot, Mr. Di Ioia has contacted his oil company to take it up on its energy-saving tips, an
21、d he is considering moving closer to Manhattan, he said, “to make it easier on my carbon footprint.”C has even turned workplace conservation into a competitive sport. The site offers challenges: Go a week without using disposable coffee cups. Abandon your car for public transportation once a week. O
22、ffices form teams and battle to see who can make the greatest dent in carbon emissions. As of Wednesday, Googles Cambridge, Mass., office was leading Googles Pittsburgh office, 2.74 tons to 2.53 tons.My decision not to print about 36 pages of notes is but a blip in that sea of CO2. And it took nearl
23、y twice as long as usual to write this column. But I have spared myself the moment where I usually toss a stack of printouts into the trash.Now I am off to buy some environmentally friendly compact fluorescent light bulbs.到上周我收集采访笔记和电子邮件交流和 Web 下载了我的计算机,然后打印和排序, 突显出,直到我有一列类型。一些关于控股的论文,并重新排列它们, 解雇了我的
24、大脑。但是本周,当到了按“打印” 在我几十页的数据, 我僵住了。所有被浪费掉的纸。和墨水。和电力。没有电脑应该已经导致了无纸化办公吗?为什么我的书桌上堆满的副产品砍伐树木吗?所以我在这里,电子剪切和粘贴 ,和趋势的一部分。绿色是这十年的工作时间是什么灵活到最后。选择一个公司,你是越来越有可能找到一个计划。一些雄心勃勃的、建筑节能工厂从可再生可回收材料。有些是适度的,旨在改变行为的个体工人。最后一部分,这似乎应该是最简单的 ,是会议一些抵抗。一项民意调查由哈里斯互动任仕达美国发现,77%的受访者表示,他们2079 年回收,但只有49%的人说他们这样做的工作。在开展的调查显示,从1月17 日至21
25、 日在线报道,93%关灯, 电脑当他们离开家。但只有50% 的翻转开关,当他们离开工作过夜。尽管这个矛盾,一些公司正身先士卒 ,双面复印纸张回收或电子传真只。其他人节约用电通过安装计时器在灯光和自动化的电脑关闭。企业甚至补贴汽油保护。在 RSUI 集团,一个保险保险人在亚特兰大, 一个雇员放弃一个停车证和需要公共交通或连接池是一辆面包车每月支付60美元。工人 Meradia 集团,一个费城商业咨询问题,给出了5000美元,如果他们购买混合动力汽车。 Meradia 也把蓝色的垃圾箱在桌子下面所以员工不必走到房间的另一头存款空水瓶。不出所料,水瓶遭受攻击。去年 ,波士顿律师事务所 Ropes &
26、 Gray 停止购买他们的办公室会议,代之以投手和眼镜。保存 4000瓶,仅在第一个月。咖啡杯是在雷达屏幕上,同样 ,尽管似乎存在一些分歧实际上是什么最好的环境。在 233年的办公室的广告公司欧洲 RSCG,纸被换成玻璃, 减少垃圾填埋场。在市中心的天际线沙龙在密苏里州堪萨斯城玻璃已被替换成纸,所以洗碗机不必运行多于一天一次。和9000名员工的资本集团公司、财务管理公司,使用一次性杯子由可生物降解玉米淀粉, 和盘子和碗由甘蔗。并不是所有的绿色倡议来自管理。许多是由员工决定,挥舞着他们的可回收绒球和喝彩加油的落后者。安德鲁 Granchelli,例如。尽管他的雇主, 纽曼通信,在布莱顿,质量。,
27、声称回收的兴趣他说, 声称是受制于其办公大楼的所有者,他拒绝把独立的容器纸,塑料和玻璃。所以 Granchelli 先生和一位同事,瑞秋的 Rausch,把箱子在办公室的一个核心部分。大约一周一次,Granchelli 先生把汤罐头, 苏打水瓶和塑料容器在他的车里曾树干 ,然后将它们添加到他的家庭回收。Rausch 女士至少需要一盒纸给她的车每日, 每周去杂货店购物,在她把它放进垃圾箱公司提供的,为慈善事业筹集资金通过回收。员工在 LPA Inc .的建筑公司在美国加州欧文。, 带回家超过瓶子和纸。100多名员工参与现场堆肥项目,和垃圾桶,提供食物浪费,以吸引蠕虫(咖啡渣为例)。废物进入一个“
28、虫栖息地” 在办公室,和“蠕虫牧人 ”(志愿者) 关心他们, 将生成的堆肥员工之间利用在他们的花园。拯救地球也是员工驱动在我爱奖励公司是一家多伦多的公司,开发员工生产力奖励。艾米科尔领导公司的社会责任委员会,在过去六个月中已经创建了一个回收程序和一个骑自行车上班计划(其中包括一个注册表共享公司自行车 )和已安装的计时器在咖啡机和办公室的冰箱。这些计时器补充道,她解释说 ,因为咖啡机是只用直到每天下午三点和休息室冰箱仅运行在星期五,因为它持有的成分”我们的签名鸡尾酒、RedPoint 公司,” 一个威士忌酸掺入了红牛,传统上结束了一周工作时间。电力将被保存在一个一年是686.40美元。而支付更多
29、的咖啡和 RedPoints。事情变得有点竞争当员工开始监视和测量。5月的发现杂志将包括一个“碳足迹的挑战” ,呼吁读者减少对环境的影响,并在准备这篇文章 ,该杂志看起来在它自己的后院 在环境影响的报告和印刷,35名员工的生活方式。使用“ 凉爽的气候计算器” 设计的一个研究生在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校,发现发现帕特里斯 Adcroft,它的编辑主任,是最碳中性 ,住在曼哈顿,该杂志有其办公室,和一切她能走路 尽管她仍然创造了碳排放,是世界平均水平的三倍。相比之下,迈克尔迪 Ioia,创意总监, 乘公交车上下班每年46000英里之间在宾夕法尼亚和家中工作。自学习,他是最糟糕的污染者的很多 ,Ioia 先生已经联系了他 Di 石油公司采取了其节能技巧,他正在考虑移动接近曼哈顿 ,他说,“为了简单起见我的碳足迹。 ”C 甚至把工作场所的保护到竞技体育。该网站提供了挑战:去一个星期不使用一次性咖啡杯。放弃你的车为公共交通一周一次。办公室形式团队和战斗,看谁能使碳排放最伟大的凹痕。截至周三,谷歌的剑桥, 麻。,办公室是领先的谷歌的匹兹堡办公室,2.74吨,至2.53吨。我的决定不打印大约36页的笔记只不过是昙花一现, 海的二氧化碳。和它花了近两倍的时间,像往常一样写这个专栏。但我有我自己的那一刻,我免于通常抛一摞打印输出到垃圾。现在我要去买一些环保的紧凑型荧光灯泡。
