What You can Do at Work and Home
The collective impact of individuals making good choices can improve our environment tremendously. Here are a few ways you can help.
At Home
- Have your company adopt the following policy:
We are committed to
- Reducing, reusing, recycling
- Health energy
- Healthy transportation
- Healthy air
- Add one of the following to your email signature:
- Give the Earth a breather; don’t print this email if you don’t need to.
- Trees are the Earth’s lungs; only print this email if absolutely necessary.
- Love the Earth’s lungs as if they were your own; please don’t print this email unless you really need to.
- (Company Name) is dedicated to reducing our environmental impact; save a tree by not printing this email.
At Work
- Remember wax paper? Use it instead of plastic wrap or aluminum foil. It’s biodegradable.
- Use your toaster oven instead of the big oven when possible.
- Use cloth instead of paper napkins.
- Pay your bills electronically; it saves trees and reduces air pollution.
- Buy locally grown food.
- Use recyclable shopping bags.
- Use travel mugs and refillable (not disposable) water bottles.
Spread the word to family and friends.


