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Welcome to the Green Office Program and thank you for joining other faculty and staff who are introducing green practices into their work area. The Green Office Program is a do-it-yourself program designed to be fun and educational.
The Green Office Program is an ideal way to:
- generate excitement and raise awareness around issues of sustainability in your work environment;
- provide motivated community members the resources and tools to implement sustainability practices;
- implement real solutions to everyday environmental challenges;
- illustrate that combining many small personal actions can lead to big outcomes;
- reduce Colgate's and your individual ecological footprint;
- save money and natural resources through conservation and efficiency.
Ready to get started? Follow these simple steps:
- Click here to download the Green Office Worksheet: a step-by-step guide to Green Office certification.
- Click here to view our Green Office orientation presentation (5-7 min).
- Designate a motivated Eco-Rep to help lead the effort in your work area.
- Register your work area into the Green Office Program by clicking here.
- Wait for an email invite from the Sustainability Office and begin working through the online green practices checklist (click here to see an example checklist).
- Receive an official green rating and become a certified green office.
Green Office Best Practices
- Grants Office reduces paper use. Click here to learn more.
- Residential Life purchases coffee mugs that state "It's easy being green" in order to eliminate the use of disposable cups in their office. Click here to learn more.
- Grants Office purchases reusable "Eko-brew" container to eliminate plastic cup waste from Keurig coffee machine. Click here to learn more.