Adobe Going Green Starting with Coffee Creamers
With more and more natural resources being depleted every day, it’s no wonder that many companies have taken steps to help preserve the environment the best they can. While many have complained that striving to be eco-friendly is simply too much effort and money, others have proved that it really isn’t too much trouble at all, and that even small steps towards saving the environment make a big difference.
One example of this is when an employee at Adobe Systems was wondering whether the individual coffee creamers in company break rooms were more wasteful than one big container. Apparently this thought reached Randy Knox, the director of systems, real estate, and security — leading to immediate action to find out which containers produce the least waste.
This is just one example of the many actions Adobe Systems made towards a greener mother earth, which received a platinum award from the U.S. Green Building Council for their efforts. So far Adobe has managed to use its electricity consumption by 35% and gas consumption by 41% since 2001 by retrofitting existing office towers.
Adobe’s efforts have proven to be not just good to the environment, but the business as well. Since then they have managed to save up to one million annually, just for investing $1.1 million in energy-efficiency projects, including about $350,000 in energy rebates. Knox attests to these efforts, saying, “This isn’t some pie-in-the-sky kind of thing the enviros are pushing. It really works.”
With so much good news maybe other companies will be motivated to go eco-friendly as well.
via CNNMoney
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