Today just about everything and everyone attached to that ‘thing’ has in one way or another gone “Green” It’s an age of an adopted consciousness of saving and re-using. From Fortune 500 companies to the little house on the corner of Elm and Main streets, recycling and using other methods to conserve energy is the latest wave.
Organizations are converting into paper-less work environments, which I have yet to see actually work 100%. I’ve witnessed (no exaggeration!) a 30 page document created, printed for signature (all 30 pages!), scanned, saved and printed again to maintain a “hardcopy” of the signed document on file. Even better, are the occasions where files consisting of about 75+ pages are scanned into databases for storage and easy access, while the hardcopies are shipped to an offsite storage space (at a ridiculous monthly rate!) and when the file is needed, employees PRINT the scanned documents because, well not everyone is as adaptable to the new paperless policy (???) Okay, I can go on and on but you kinda get what I’m trying to say about the corporate world’s idea of going Green.
Then there’s that aforementioned house on the corner Elm and Main; downsizing from the 8-passenger SUV to snazzy Hybrids for everyone in the household, unplugging phone chargers that aren’t in use, buying bigger, but energy efficient appliances, (did you catch that?)
Don’t get me wrong, going Green is great. We’re doing what should’ve been done a long time ago. But true to form, we wait until things are at a dire state before we began to take action.
Hmmm…
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