One of our favorite topics about going green is how it can also SAVE you green in the process. We have a whole section on the site devoted to this topic and will continue to write about ways to save money on your journey to being more green.
Since “Going green while saving green” is a notion that many are just now starting to realize, it is great to see high ranking business folks like Staples CFO John Mahoney stressing the point.
CFO.com has a great write up of Mahoney speaking at the CFO Green Conference in New York where he pointed to some very specific and staggering savings:
In 2008, the company switched from using three-amp lightbulbs to two-amp bulbs. That single change was the key factor in a $6.2 million reduction in energy costs, $4.2 million of which fell to the bottom line after subtracting the costs of running the program. Read the rest of this entry
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After reading and posting about the White House Going Green, it got us thinking if other branches of the government were also getting into the act.
I will say that we were a little suprised to find the Pentagon in our search as they are not the image you have when you think of “tree hugging environmentalists” trying to save the earth. After reading “Pentagon Looks at Green Options“, it definitely made sense and we have a new appreciation of good reasons to “go green”. Read the rest of this entry
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Found a very interesting article today on the Associated Press: It’s time to green this old (White) House – again
The article discusses many of the things that have been done to make the White House “greener” over the years, focusing on the Carter, Bush, Clinton and now the Obama Administration (Bad pun alert – So would that make it a Green House?) Read the rest of this entry
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I plan on writing more articles about china and their efforts to “go green” over the next couple of months. Why focus on China? Becase they have a population around 1.5 Billion (with a B) and are easily the worlds larges industrial nations (and one of the biggest carbon footprints around). Read the rest of this entry
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Since I am a huge hockey fan AND run this website about going green, I was very interested to see the following article: Read the rest of this entry
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