Meetings

• Email agenda and documents prior to the meeting.
• Encourage participants to bring laptops or tablets to view meeting documents.
• Provide mugs/cups, or ask attendees to bring their own for water/tea/coffee.
• Hold meetings in rooms with natural lighting.
• Consider virtual meetings if travel is required.

Offices

• Create a shut-down checklist for end-of-day, weekends, and holidays.

• Review sustainability initiatives with upper management.

• Educate employees on proper disposal to prevent bin contamination.

• Ensure bins are clearly labelled and in centralized areas.

• Replace paper coffee filters to reusable metal mesh filters and switch to large bulk quantities.

• Encourage staff to bring their own reusable flatware and dinnerware.

• Set the default printing to double-sided.

• Purchase vegetable or soy-based inks and FSC certified paper in bulk.

• Tightly shut all windows and lower the room temperature at end of day.

• Set Ecosia as a default search engine.

• Organize carpool schedules.

• Create a sustainability leaderboard to showcase employee initiatives.