| Whether a person is conservative or liberal, young | | | | won't be used for an extended period of time. |
| or old, male or female the message is the same. | | | | This saves electric costs and I personally like the |
| No matter where they live, how much money | | | | idea of having my internet modem and wireless |
| they have, education, social status, you name it, | | | | network unavailable to hackers when I'm not |
| most people agree. Albeit for different reasons, | | | | using the equipment. |
| people are becoming more environmentally aware. | | | | To save on heating and cooling, we have |
| "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" is becoming a common | | | | accepted that the temperature may not be ideal |
| household and business phrase. These three "R"s | | | | and that we can change what we are wearing |
| will help to save the planet but there is an added | | | | (great benefit of a home business!) to become |
| benefit to your home business. | | | | more comfortable. So the temperature range set |
| When we started applying these to our home | | | | on our thermostat is set a bit higher or lower |
| business we achieve amazing results. | | | | than we used to depending on the season. |
| With regard to paper, we print or copy only what | | | | Our utilities bills continually show that we use less |
| is absolutely necessary and then we use both | | | | power or natural gas than in the same month of |
| sides of the paper. We provide our customers | | | | the preceding year and this is our goal. There is |
| electronic information and only supply paper copies | | | | more that can be done but these simple steps |
| when requested (and may even charge a fee for | | | | described here will: |
| this). We reuse paper that we receive that is only | | | | 1. Help you save money on paper, ink, electricity |
| printed on one side, for notes or message taking. | | | | and natural gas, |
| When we do buy paper, it is 100% recycled for | | | | 2. Impress your customers if you advertise that |
| only about one dollar more per ream. We recyle | | | | you are environmentally friendly, |
| our paper and printer cartridges as well. Because | | | | 3. Contribute less to landfills, and |
| of all these things, we contribute less to landfills | | | | 4. Help to preserve the environment for future |
| and to destruction of forests and very | | | | generations. |
| importantly, our costs for paper and printer ink is | | | | Efficient and effective use of resources should be |
| way down. We have seen no negative | | | | a goal of every business. It does not cost more |
| consequences by taking all these steps. | | | | money to be environmentally friendly, contrary to |
| To save electricity, we have replaced our light | | | | popular belief. If we focus on efficient and |
| bulbs with florescent ones. They cost more | | | | effective use of nature's resources then the |
| initially, but our electricity costs are reduced and | | | | result has to be a positive one. One person and |
| they last six times longer. We have a power bar | | | | one business can make a difference, one person |
| on all of our electronic equipment and we turn the | | | | and one business at a time. |
| power bar off at night or when they otherwise | | | | |