Green Hints and Tips
1. What are you having for lunch?
If you're buying/making lunch from local sources you're helping reduce carbon footprints. Food that comes from foriegn countries has to be shippied to your destination. It takes a lot of energy to do that. By simply changing your lunches to locally sourced foods you can help reduce global CO2 emissions and maybe even improve your diet at the same time.
2. Stand-by and hibernate PC features
Do you frequently find yourself in the middle of something on your computer and in the need to leave it idle for a short period of time? YES! Try making proper use of stand-by features. You can save energy without wasting time reloading work-in progress.
3. Unplug chargers that are not in use. Otherwise they will continue to draw power
If you leave a phone charger or other similar style charger plugged in permanently you're wasting energy 99% of the time, since these types of wall chargers drain energy even when the wall socket is turned off.
4. Switch to energy saving light bulbs
Energy saving light bulbs last longer than normal light bulbs and they use less energy. If you like keeping lights on in the office overnight for security reasons, use low energy usage dusk till dawn bulbs.
5. Don't print things out
By not printing you're saving energy used to print the documents but more importantly you're saving paper and ink. These items are manufactured. Anything that is manufactures uses energy (wastes energy in this case) to produce. Less paper storage equals less work and less clutter.
All information is sourced from reputable eco-friendly websites such as www.gogreen.theconsortium.co.uk
For further information about WD products click www.wdc.comDid You Know?
- Each year in Britain, we throw away 28 million tonnes of rubbish from our homes. This weighs the same as three and a half million double decker buses. A queue of buses that long would go around the world one and a half times. (Source: The Green parent website).
- Every year in the UK we use 13 billion steel cans which if you placed them end to end, would stretch to the moon - three times! (Source: Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau).
