Tip of the Week

Happy Tuesday, CQ Press!

With Earth Day being just around the corner (April 22), a lot of you are probably asking how you can support green initiatives at the office beyond just recycling, turning off lights, and reusing kitchen supplies.

GREEN TIP: Do you drive? You can also help the Environment and Aesthetics Committee by taking some of the plastic bags from the recycling bins to your neighborhood Safeway or Giant! These bins are found in both break rooms and the pantry and are overflowing with plastic bags that are just waiting to be recycled! Just grab a bunch when you remember and drop them off on your way home! (The recycling bins at the grocery stores are usually just inside the main set of doors.)

Sustainably yours,

Your friendly neighborhood Environment and Aesthetics Committee

http://greencqpress.blogspot.com/

Fun Fact: About 700 grocery bags can be made from one 15-year-old tree; an average supermarket uses 700 bags in under one hour.

Tip of the Week

Happy Monday, CQ Press!

Keeping in line with our kitchen-themed green tips, I offer you one of my favorite tips so far:

GREEN TIP: Minimize your waste by only using the materials you absolutely need. Instead of using a plastic stir in your coffee each morning (or worse, a spoon!), add your sugar and creamer to your cup before you add the coffee or hot water. The pouring of the liquid into the cup will naturally mix the ingredients together!

Sustainably yours,

Your friendly neighborhood Environment and Aesthetics Committee

http://greencqpress.blogspot.com/

Fun Fact: Cutting shower time by two minutes can conserve more than ten gallons of water.

Tip of the Week

Did you notice the new Seventh Generation dish soap in the kitchens this morning? Just another easy way that we can all be green in the office!

GREEN TIP: Bring your own mugs or dishware to use from home and eliminate the need for disposable serving items! Isn’t it more fun to look at a cute cheery coffee mug each morning than a boring old plastic cup? If you find that you need to use a disposable cup or plastic fork, at least rinse it off and use it more than once!

Sustainably yours,

Your friendly neighborhood Environment and Aesthetics Committee

Fun Fact: Every month Americans discard enough glass bottles and jars to fill a large skyscraper.

Anacostia River Bill

Dear Colleagues,

The Environment and Aesthetics Committee is passing along this link to sign a petition to DC council members (DC residency not required) to pass a bill that would help keep plastic bags out of the Anacostia River.

Thanks for your consideration! This link will also be placed in the links bar on the right-hand side of the page.

Let's all think green for St. Patrick's Day tomorrow and take advantage of the recycling bins in each of the break rooms!

 

GREEN TIP: You can recycle more than just paper and soda cans at CQ Press! In addition to these bins positioned strategically around the office, there are also bins to recycle plastic shopping bags in each of the break rooms. We even have a bin for dry cell batteries in break room 8100 and bins for depositing bubble wrap and packing peanuts for reuse in 8068!

 

Sustainably yours,

Your friendly neighborhood Environment and Aesthetics Committee

 

Fun Fact: The wood and paper discarded by Americans annually is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years. 

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Happy Tuesday, CQ Press!

 

GREEN TIP: Did you notice the new organic fair trade Sumatra coffee in the break rooms? Rain Forest Nut coffee is fair trade as well! You can make small green changes to the items that you use everyday without making a huge sacrifice. These small changes add up to make a big environmental difference!

 

(If the organic coffee is well received, we can look into ordering more. Thank you, Johnnie, for ordering the Sumatra!)

 

Sustainably yours,

Your friendly neighborhood Environment and Aesthetics Committee

 

Fun fact: Eating less meat eases pressure on the environment. Producing one pound of beef requires 2500 gallons of water. Fifty-five square feet of rain forest are destroyed to produce each hamburger made from animals raised on cleared forest.

 

Happy Monday, CQ Press!

Here is yet another exciting green tip to assist you in your efforts to save paper! Way to go, CQP!

GREEN TIP: When printing from the Internet, use the printer-friendly version of the Web site (often a link you click on the top of the page). This often eliminates the sidebar advertisements and unnecessary spacing to use less paper.

Sustainably yours,

Your friendly neighborhood Environment and Aesthetics Committee

Fun fact: If all U.S. households paid their bills online instead of getting paper statements and writing paper checks, 18.6 million trees would be saved annually.