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Many ways have been put into place to ensure that the environment is preserved. The use of eco friendly methods and facilities is encouraged. One of these eco-friendly methods is the use of green printing. It is an excellent strategy to reduce carbon footprint on the earth. Many benefits of green printing are:

Eco-friendly Inks

The use of green printing methods employs the use of vegetable-based oils than the traditional printing that utilizes petroleum based ones. The use of green inks makes an easier and healthier method of disposing the inks without harming the environment.

Green Paper

This type of paper is not treated by use of chlorine and is 100% recyclable. This helps preserve our forests.

Clean Power

Since all the printing facilities require power to run, the green printing facilities considers the environment when searching for a power source. This allows others to invest in renewable energy methods reducing impact on the environment.

The service organizations like utilities, equipment suppliers, telcos, corporations and rental agencies utilize million fleet of vehicles every year each running about 25,000 miles per year. This causes a huge carbon footprint. Becoming eco-friendly is the buzz word and should not be overlooked. The service organizations need to go green at the earliest if not already gone green.

These organizations should try to reduce the fuel consumption. For it repeated visits to one place needs to be avoided. Work and delivery should be well planned. Regular maintenance of the vehicles can reduce the consumption of fuel.

Try to plan better routes for field workers and technicians for their field visits. This will also reduce total mileage by some percentage. Location based services including street level routing can reduce the travel time of the companies.

Let the employees work from home at least once a week. This will boost employees’ morale and save fuel and electricity of the organizations.

It is imperative that one goes green at work to save the nature and live a healthy life. Work and work related activities consume a lot of energy thus making it as one of the most polluting activities. A few small steps can go a long way to save the environment.

The means of travel to reach work play an important role. Instead of using individual cars to commute, go by public transport or the company can provide collective transport mean for its employees.

• Use less of the elevators and walk if the destination is nearby.

• Recycle and reuse the office waste.

• Take the help of nature to light and bright the work place.

• Don’t litter the office waste and if the work place is hospital etc, the waste disposal should be carried out properly.

• Use potted plants inside the office to give a cheerful ambience.

• Go out in the open during the break to get fresh air instead of sitting inside an air conditioned office all the time.

The US President Barack Obama has given a few tips to go green and become nature friendly.

President Obama realizes the importance of saving energy which will ultimately save the planet. He called for using products that are energy efficient. He stressed on switching off the electric appliances when not using them. Unplugging the electric gadgets will save power.

He also emphasized on cutting back on the air conditioning and heating systems to save electricity. Going natural is preferred to ultimately save the green cover of the earth.

President Obama stressed on buying items with less packaging and advised to recycle and use paper, glass plastic etc.

He also advised to drive energy efficient cars, energy efficient appliances and to hold clean up drives.
He also advised to plant as many trees as possible. He also emphasized to involve children in the tree panting drive to make it possible.

The US President has given out a clear message to help save the environment and contribute to sustainable healthy growth.

By going green one can save on a lot of money and energy for the future. Going green will make the earth a better place to live in.

Use more natural light instead of electric light for your home. Therefore, try to construct your home according to the direction of the sun at your location.

Have large windows to let in fresh air and natural light so as to use less of air conditioner and electricity.

Use programmable thermostat for your homes to reduce electric consumption. Lower the thermostat of your geyser from 140 degrees to 115 degrees. The difference in water temperature will not be much but the energy consumed will be reduced considerably.

Use less of your personal car for travel. Public transport is a better mean to travel. One can use bicycle or even walk to the shorter distances.

Instead of using elevators or lifts use, stairs to reach your office or apartment.

These few tips can save your money by going green.

Green building, in other words, the construction of highly energy efficient office buildings, hospitals, schools, etc., may not be as popular in headlines as global warming or renewable energy, but it is no less important in the fight against climate change.

Thomas Friedman outlined the underlying problem in his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded. He discussed the importance of switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs, recycling, and being as energy efficient as possible. But then Friedman inserts a reality check, identifying several growing cities in Asia. Some small cities in China are booming with population growth, new construction, and with thousands of new cars on the road each week. Any of the progress made here at home with improved recycling and energy efficient light bulbs just went down the drain.

During the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, there must be a strong emphasis on the benefits of training laborers to build buildings and infrastructure of new and growing cities to be highly energy efficient. Without new growth becoming energy efficient, or better yet, having a net of zero emissions, no significant progress will ever be made to fight global climate change