No cost/easy actions

• Manage office equipment use to ensure better energy efficiency
• Reduce, reuse, recycle
• Convince your colleagues to support your actions and take action in their own homes
• Use the aircon/heater in your office only when necessary
• Shut down your computer at the end of the day
• Turn all the office lights off at the end of the day

Some cost/medium effort actions

• Ask your building manager what you could improve to make it more energy efficient
• Set up an office worm farm
• Switch to recycled paper for printers and photocopiers
• Set up an office carpooling system
• Arrange meetings and conferences as phone calls or teleconferences rather than travelling to meet face to face
• Switch to locally made, sustainably produced products in your kitchens and bathrooms

More cost/more effort actions

• Replace inefficient old office equipment with new more efficient models
• Replace company cars with more fuel-efficient models
• Install motion-activated lights in bathrooms and kitchens

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