About one quarter of commercial printers in the United States operate using soy ink. Ask about soy ink for your next project.

Use plastic containers for packing the kids lunches instead of several resealable bags.

If you’ve gone digital, your old camera should be recycled with products containing mercury. Better yet, check with your local school or college to see if their art/journalism departments might use it.

Monitors displaying moving screen savers consume as much electricity as when active. Let the computer sleep instead.

When making coffee use a reusable filter rather than paper filters. White paper filters pollute water with chlorine and other harmful chemicals. Unbleached filters waste vast mounts of paper.

Turn off unnecessary lighting and use task or desktop lamps with CFLs instead of overhead lights.

Did You Know?
50 million pounds of used toothbrushes are dumped in U.S. landfills each year? Recycline Inc. offers toothbrushes made from recycled yogurt containers.

Cut down wind resistance on your car to improve gas mileage. Remove roof racks and other accessories if you’re not using them: a fully loaded roof rack increases fuel consumption by 30%!

So, now it’s 2010 and business leaders around the world are wondering what their corporate new year’s resolution should look like. With Copenhagen kind of a non-event, and still a fair amount of uncertainty in the air, what are they to do?

The folks at Phillips have developed a website widget that allows you, as a business or facility owner/manager, to input your energy profile, and it spits out a grade, allowing you to better understand your impact and what you can do.