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6 Green Employee Benefits Companies Can Offer to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

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But there are also creative ways to enhance a benefits package that encourage employees to tackle climate change, while helping them and the company as a whole to lower their carbon footprint. So, it’s basically all about making sure people don’t have to sacrifice their holiday time to make climate-friendly choices.”

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Little Green Footsteps

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use; holiday forms, purchase order sign-off, invoice sign off, expenses, just to name a few. However, we cannot operate a business today without IT and suspect in most cases the incremental service cost and carbon footprint required to make these changes are significantly less the storing and shipping around unnecessary paper based files.

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16 planet-friendly gift ideas, recommended by TED speakers

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The holidays are here — a time for family, friends and festivities. In the US alone, returned packages will generate around 15 million tons of carbon pollution (equivalent to 3.2 Most of us have enough stuff, so this holiday season, why not give a gift that will create a legacy? A mushroom garden. A giant of a plant.

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Preservation and Profit: 4 Companies That Use Sustainable Business Practices to Help Protect the Earth

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Biggers a&o Hostels In 2015, a&o Hostels set out to learn more about its carbon footprint, or the total amount of greenhouse gases the company produced. They have no spas, no saunas and no minibars full of small, disposable bottles, all of which contribute to a higher carbon footprint in other room rental operations.