Green Living - Three Steps in Greening Your Business

After doing my research and comparing notes from several sites, blogger, and famous environmental authors, I have come up with three simple steps in achieving a more greener work place. You have to know where your business is right now in terms of performance because if you do not measure where you are today, you can't move forward in reaching your goals. When we say assess, you have to go down to the roots of how your company works in order to determine which part you can integrate environmental standards easily. This step is very crucial and no one can do this for you except you and your team. Best way to do this is try to segregate all processes by departments. You can list down all departments, an example would be your purchasing, marketing, sales, manufacturing, comptroller ship and even the services you outsourced from other companies, and from there you can be more specific in that department. In order to achieve great accuracy, an annual team building with your department heads is the best way to inject this assessment. It means that you take into account the things you have to do before production - by asking yourself, "what are the things that I need to have and an estimate in order to produce these goods?" this will boil down in itemizing the major components and also the little things that are involved in the procedure. Account everything like how many papers you will need to print the contract or how long do you need to have the lights on during production, etc. And also after production - by doing an inventory of all the things you have used before and during the actual production including off site services. Final step is all about carbon neutralization. Every single living and non-living things have carbon blueprints and these blueprints are the key in maintaining healthy carbon emissions. Majority of environmental issues today are focused on global warming and how greenhouse gasses contribute to the dangerous climate change we are experiencing today.