Posted on May 21, 2008 - by Teresa
Green Teams Presentation
I had the wonderful opportunity to speak on a panel of green team members at a Sustainable Silicon Valley event on April 30th. I enjoyed putting together a presentation on BJG’s efforts to green our company. It made me realize how much we have accomplished the last few years.
Our team was formed organically by two of our staff members who had a passion to change the way we did business. They started small. Double sided printing. Carpool to work week. Composting. These initiatives grew into our formal green team and company mission statement “We passionately enrich our environment through responsive design”. Our company is very fortunate that our president is passionate about the environment and he is an active and supportive participant of our green team.
We are now in the full swing of making big changes. We balance our time between internal process improvements and design focused improvements. In our business we have the unique opportunity that our work product can also make a big impact in a positive way. Our designs can reduce water and energy usage, limit waste sent to the landfill, we can specify locally sourced products, the possibilities are endless.
We have embedded my presentation below. I hope you find it useful. I purposely focused on the pictures instead of bullets, so it is a little light on text. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. I would love to share ideas on how to start a green team or things you can do in your organization to reduce your impact.
