1. Lowering Mass Light Consumption:

Lightening is the most important thing in organizations, hotels for indoor work as well as interior and exterior decoration. Lowering the wastage of energy in this level may contribute the most.

• Implement better ideas to utilize day lightening as it is possible, it can lead to save the energy at large level.
• Buy Energy Star rated light bulbs or other lightening appliances (preferably CFLs or LEDs) which save at least two-third of the energy consumed by regularly used bulbs.
• Install the sensors (time based / motion based), which can automatically switch off the lights, when these are unnecessary.
• Install the solar energy based pole-lamps for infrastructure lightening and solar garden lightening.
• Think over the least wastage of lights in terms of wattage and usages even if using in royal decoration or any celebration.

2. Energy Efficient IT:

Today most of the organizations have IT infrastructure and some are IT companies itself. They can play a major role in saving energy and other resources by making their IT infrastructure more energy efficient.

• Make it policy to put penalties for careless computer users as well as some motivational rewards for most careful employees.
• Make it policy to run energy saving computer system and appliances.
  • It includes installing TFT/LCD/LED monitors in place of CRT monitors.
  • Installing power saving featured operating systems for servers (like Microsoft introduced Windows server 2008).
  • Using virtualization, it saves cost of hardware also.
• Conduct quick audits for efficiency of computer systems and other appliances as well as for their employees’ co-ordination in such activities.
• Old computer systems (in working conditions) can be donated to other small organizations, schools etc that will quicken them and will be able to save their purchasing cost. That will also lead to save the hazardous e-waste as well as donators may get some tax benefits too.
• Make it policy to print at both sides of the paper and enforce the employees to reuse the old papers. It will lead the saving of papers.
• Make it policy to purchase chlorine-free papers and recycled papers. Always opt for eco-friendly papers (made of bamboo, hemp, organic cotton, kenaf, Zein-coated papers for packaging etc).
• Make it policy to print in draft mode or low dpi mode, unless it is necessary. It saves a lot of ink and reduces the usage of cartridges. (It will reduce the e-wastage and landfill and oil).

3. Be Paperless as Possible:

A lot of papers and documents are used in organizations for data and records. Paper Industry consumes billions of trees and millions kilolitres of water for paper production (in multi millions ton per year). In a case study, 1 tone of paper production results in 1.36 ton of CO₂ or equivalent GHG (Green House Gases). Organizations should take initiatives for being paperless unless it is necessary to use paper.

• Make policy to post manuals, circulars, memorials, weekly/monthly magazines or other similar documents either online or through email. (They should avoid the printed copy distribution).
• Service providers should promote bill payments online and also provide bills online or through e-mails until and unless consumers explicitly demand for hard copy. It will save a chunk of papers and ink used for bills and envelops (It’s often cost effective too).

4. Efficient Utilization of Travel and Transport:

Travel and transport is the major contributor in emission of Green House Gases (GHG). Most organizations provide separate cabs/taxis for their managers and employees , few of them prefer to use class vehicles/SUVs (have low-mileage); these activities increase the traffic congestion, emission of GHG as well as excessive consumption of energy resources.

• Make it policy to provide transport services through buses instead of providing cars/taxis. (It will reduce the traffic congestion; reduce the GHG emission, fuel consumption and the cost incurred).
• If it is necessary to provide high quality of transport (especially for senior employees), use luxury buses if head counts are ample, or use high-mileage vehicles or hybrid cars for low head counts for particular route, preferably on shared basis.
• Make it policy to use video-conferencing, teleconferencing and other technical or infrastructural solutions for meetings, conferences among the people from different places. It will save the cost of travel and time (indirectly flight fuel in case of abroad journey).
• Prefer to buy the hybrid vehicles, vehicles with high-mileage or the vehicles which consumes CNG or other alternative fuels which emit less GHG.
• Telecommuting if employee live far from the office, unless his/her presence in office is necessary.

5. Build up Reusing and Recycling and Avoid Toxic Wastage:

Reusing and recycling the devices, accessories and promoting these activities will not only save the energy and other resources used in their production, but also reduce landfill of e-wastage as well as toxic wastage plus pollution. In long term these activities are also proved to be cost-effective.

• Make it policy to re-use toners and ink cartridges (by refilling) and buy remanufactured toners or cartridges. It will reduce the landfill of hazardous e-wastage.
• Prefer to buy high-quality and long-lasting products as well as avoid frequent replacement of the appliances and other utilities. It will reduce the landfill of hazardous e-wastage.
• Prefer to use filtered water filled in metallic (like steel) bottles in meeting, conferences, because production of plastic bottles and bottles used for packaging of mineral water takes millions of ton of oil-derived plastics as well as significant amount of energy resources. Also dumping of these bottles makes landfill of toxic wastage (Even it also cost 240 times to 10000 times more than cost of tap water).

6. Green Office Environment:

• Grow mini plants inside office (those who do not need sun light) instead of placing artificial plants for decoration. It will absorb CO₂ and other indoor pollutants as well as decorate interior of the office.
• Usage of nontoxic cleaning products in the office.
• Make it policy to avoid purchasing of furniture made of composite wood, because these give off harmful vapors called VOL (Volatile Organic Compounds).
• Make it policy to buy the furniture made of reclaimed lumber or recycled materials or biodegradable furniture, because manufacturing wooden furniture cost a lot of trees.
• If organizations, hotels wish to use wood for interior decoration, then prefer to use salvaged or harvested lumber.
• Make it policy to use natural flooring such as organic wool carpeting, bamboos, corks, linoleum made of linseed oil and tiles made of recycled glasses or porcelain.
• Conduct awareness programs as well as eco-friendly activities for their employees.

Watch a girl delivering speech to UN…^

“Go Green” is the most prominent topic today and all of us ought to join this campaign. This is not a campaign with hot advertisement, a lot of media attracting statements or a high class meetings and conference. This campaign doesn’t require any of technical, financial or extra-ordinary skills, it just need your co-operation and support with humility. “Go Green” doesn’t belong to specific class of society. Either you can take this initiative with your interest or you must follow it as a rule sometime in future.

Global warming is the top level problem caused by human activities. There are a lot of activities which are responsible for Global Warming – Green House Gases emission, De-Forestation, Toxic wastage, Pollution et cetera.

Directly or indirectly human activities are responsible for ozone depletion, climate changes, ice-melting, rise in sea-level, extinction of many species, water scarcity, rise in temperature, forest fire, acid rain, damage in ecology production and ecosystem et cetera. That day is not too far when we would need to carry oxygen cylinders in backpack to breath, paying more than 500 bucks to drink a glass of water, living under fire, fighting for a bit of food, killing each other to get a shed over head.

Everything in this world creates equilibrium and these all are connected to a chain. If even a single ring is broken, the whole chain will collapse. All natural resources are being consumed in production of all comforts for our life, with the rate more than what is needed to grow them up. As well as, people are so ignorant to these facts, that they deny accepting their mistake if any.
People, please wake up, and accept the facts without pre-occupied minds, stop misusing the resources, participate in activities to save this earth. If you do care for nature, the nature will do for you. Each person’s small contribution will result in mass participation. What do we need to do – Just simple changes in the way of our business and the way of living life, that’s it. This can be easily done by adopting environment-friendly policies and other ideas (these all things are often cost-effective too).