论文首页哲学论文经济论文法学论文教育论文文学论文历史论文理学论文工学论文医学论文管理论文艺术论文 |
10 Ways to Mark Earth Day at Your Company
在您公司纪念地球日的10种方法
(一)Celebrate Mother Earth by launching these sustainable initiatives at your company.
By Inc. Staff | Apr 22, 2010
(一)在您的公司开展可持续发展的活动倡议来庆祝地球日。
作者:Inc.工作组 2010年4月22日
(二)April 22, 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, an event designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the environment. Many businesses may also wish to use the press coverage surrounding the day to launch sustainable and environmentally-friendly initiatives. Here are 10 steps you can take today to reduce your carbon footprint, cut down on waste, and build sustainability into your business's daily operations.
(二)2010年4月22日是庆祝地球日40周年,这个日子意义在于唤起人们对环境的认识和保护而订立的。新闻报道每天都围绕着让企业开展可持续发展的活动和环保的倡议。以下有10种方法帮助您的公司降低碳排放量,减少浪费,把可持续发展的活动融入到你的日常商务工作里面。
(三)1. Determine Your Energy ConsumptionMany companies put the cart before the horse by launching green initiatives without first benchmarking their current energy and raw-material consumption. But before you begin being green, you have to know how ungreen you really are. The EPA's Energy Star program offers a set of tools called Portfolio Manager to help you gauge your energy and water use. The agency has also developed spreadsheets ("energy performance indicators") that allow manufacturers in certain industries to judge their own consumption.
(三)1.确定您公司的能源消耗。
许多公司在推行环保之前没有对能源和原材料消耗的进行评估,这种做法是本末倒置的。在开始环保行动之前,您必须知道公司不环保的地方在哪里。 EPA的能源之星计划提供了一套工具,名为投资组合管理,帮助衡量您公司的能源和水的使用。该机构还开发了电子表格(“能源业绩指标”),使制造商可以控制自己的产品能源消耗。
(六)A different tactic for eliminating paper: avoid it for storing or circulating information. Instead, use e-mail to send and review reports, edit materials online, ask that information be sent to you electronically, and save things on a hard drive, CD-ROM or other electronic memory device, according to an Environmental Protection Agency office paper reduction tip sheet. Also, look into software tools that stem printer waste. GreenPrint, a Portland, Oregon company, makes software that analyzes documents sent to the printer for wasteful characteristics like a last page with just a URL or banner ad and stops them from printing out. The enterprise version also provides statistics that companies can use to monitor paper use. FinePrint Software, a San Francisco company, sells a similar product. (六)減少使用纸张的策略:避免重复储存或流通资料。使用电子邮件发送和审查报告,用在线方式编辑材料来代替纸张,当你使用电邮发送或查阅一个报告的时候,可以利用网络工具进行编辑,回复咨询可使用电子发送方式,当你储存资料时可以储存在硬盘、光盘或者其他电子存储器上。此外,利用软件工具查阅来杜绝打印耗材的浪费。波特兰的Oregon公司研发的绿色打印软件,能够分析并阻止打印只有一个URL的页面或横幅广告。企业版还提供统计数据,企业可以用它来监测用纸。三藩市一个公司销售类似功能的FinePrint软件。
(七)3. Take a Look at Your WindowsIn 2007, Anthony Malkin, whose family owns the Empire State Building and whose real-estate investment firm manages it, announced a plan to reduce the skyscraper's energy use 38 percent by 2013, saving $4.4 million in the process. Surprisingly, changing the windows will play a big part in the money savings. Malkin contracted Serious Materials, a manufacturer of sustainable windows and drywall based in Silicon Valley, to make energy-efficient all 6,514 windows—roughly 26,000 panes of glass in the historic building. But Malkin, who had had new, dual-pane windows installed as recently as the 1990s, hated the idea of simply throwing all that glass away. Serious Materials has a process that transforms the old glass into super-insulating glass four times more efficient than most energy-efficient windows. (七)3.检查你的窗户。