Jennifer Morrison Sustainability Manager

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Jennifer MorrisonSustainability Manager
Green Practices that Can Help Your Bottom Line
May 27, 2009
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Kermit The Frog

• Its Not Easy Being GREEN
• or is it?

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Why is this important for Small Business?
Times Are Tough

• Preserve Your Assets
• Preserve Natural Resources
• Energy Prices are Rising and Are
• Unstable

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City of Chandler Sustainability Goals 2009

• Improving the Citys practices
• to preserve resources
• Renewing our emphasis
• as stewards of the public funds

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How can we be more sustainable?

• A few of the Citys goals are to
• Reduce Electrical Use By 10
• This will save us 935,000
• Reduce Gasoline Use By 10
• This will save us 142,000
• Reduce Paper Use By 15
• This will save us 10,000

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Where is a good place to start?

• Review your business practices
• Review your office practices
• Check out your trash can

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• Review your business practices

• Find out where you stand
• Develop a plan with metrics to track progress
• Hold someone accountable
• Market your progress internally and
• externally

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• Review your business practices

• Green your sourcing and procurement
• Keep up with new technologies
• Do the easy stuff first

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• Review your office practices

• Level One The Baby Steps
• Turn off the lights
• Put office equipment on
• on a power cord-turn it off nightly
• If you are in APS Service area, you
  can save 1.24 per day-322.40/year

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Review your office practices

• Level Two The Next Steps
• Reduce your paper consumption
• The average U.S. government office worker uses
  10,000 sheets of copier paper per year and the
  number is increasing.

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Review your office practices

• Set your printer to double-sided
• Reuse one-sided pages
• Print less copies
• Switch to paperless meetings
• Use digital files

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Review your office practices

• Level Two The Next Steps
• Chill
• Set a temperature standard
• Switch to a digital thermostat
• Green your lunch room
• Use ceramic mugs instead of disposable
• Invest in a set of silverware

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The City offers support to business to reduce,
reuse and recycle

• City can assist with waste audits
• 782-3510
• Chandleraz.gov

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Check out your trash can

• You pay twice for everything you buy!
• When you buy it and when you dispose of it
• Purchase with waste reduction in mind
• Extend service life of office equipment
• and supplies
• Reuse cost avoidance
• Recycle
• Disposal - last resort

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Whats Next?

• Become involved
• Set the example-youre the boss
• Talk with your employees about new
• energy-saving ideas
• Be more mindful of your energy consumption
• Start incorporating changes into your daily
• work routine
• Spread the word and share your successes

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It Is Easy Being GREEN!

• Heres some resources
• www.chandleraz.gov/green
• Papercalculator.org
• Work together to save money and resources
• Jennifer Morrison
• Sustainability Manager
• 480-782-2237