What Can We Do To Stop Global Warming

  • The motion sensor lighting can reduce your average power consumption by 33%. Use compact fluorescent lamps and efficient.
  • Computers use up to 70% less electricity when turned off instead of using a screen saver. A desktop computer consumes 20W on standby over the monitor about 8W.
  • Do not keep the printer on standby, always keep the laser heated roll coming to consume more than 1000 W.
  • If only one million people shut down the computers in the office overnight, we could eliminate up to 45,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.
  • The paper accounts for over 70% of administrative waste. Print and copy on both sides of the sheet before dumping the recycling basket. Use the copies used by one side to take and leave notes.
  • If you buy a 100% recycled paper will be lightening their carbon footprint by 2.3 kilograms of CO2 per ream.
  • For every 3 meetings whose participants to communicate by videoconference instead of traveling across the country, a car from the road would take off for a year.
  • Ask installing dual flush cistern to bring water use needs.
  • Support companies that have the best environmental records and environmentally advanced products.
  • Who commutes to work on average burning 1287 liters of petrol, creating a cloud of 3.4 tons of CO2 annually
  • If only one million people replace the car by bicycle in a distance of 8 kilometers once a week, we could reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 100,000 tons per year.
  • Share a ride with others and reduce that number by half.
  • Request public transport company to go to work.
  • The blinds should be placed on the outside to prevent overheating unnecessarily greenhouse workplace.
  • Visors and properly placed shade trees buildings avoiding increased spending on air conditioning in summer.
  • Suggest conducting an energy audit in your workplace.
  • The shops usually have the doors open heat loss in winter and increasing spending cooled air in summer, closed doors, double doors or revolving doors reduce costs and emissions.
  • Suggest the installation of photovoltaic panels on the company. The roofs of the garages can usage for this purpose.
  • If your company uses heat processes propose the use of cogeneration (heat and electricity).
  • Suggest electricity supply contract with companies that provide electricity from renewable sources.


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