Today is Blog Action Day! What dt Does Daily to Support the Environment

Okay, so today is the day. Blog Action Day 2007 – where 15,000 blogs & 12 million readers join together to blog on one issue: the Environment. Even though you may think “Oh, I’m just one person I can’t make a difference”, you truly can! Your overuse of water, trees, fuel, animals, and land can be transformed if you decide to make a change. If you decide to turn off the water while you brush your teeth, or email instead of print or bike instead of drive down the street – all of these small changes will help us to achieve the environmental revolution that our Earth so desperately deserves.

As a company, dt also pays close attention to our effect on the environment and what we can do to cut back on waste coming from our office. Here are a few things we do at dt that we hope more companies will take to heart – for our environment’s sake.

• Use Google Docs and share docs between eachother instead of printing
• If you have to print, use both sides of the paper for documents also use recycled paper
• Ban bottle waters and share an office water cooler – you get clean, filtered water & avoid plastic bottle waste
• Use recycle bins for plastic, paper and other materials that can give us a second life
• Set your computer on Stand-By mode and turn off your computer every night
• Add floral and plant decor to your office – gives us fresh oxygen & color to the office
• Only order company lunches from restaurants that use minimal packaging – avoid heavy plastic containers, inside paper bags, inside plastic bags (it all adds up!)
• Install CFL lighting throughout the office
• Get your office out of the office to participate in Earth Day or other environmental events – sometimes it’s all about educating your staff and showing them it doesn’t have to be completely life altering to help the environment

Together we can all make a difference – no matter how big of a change you can make or how much you can contribute – remember it all adds up.