The Green Team - Alamy UK
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Our Green Team was formed in 2007 to challenge all company habits, procedures and priorities in a bid to improve Alamy’s environmental performance. We hold regular meetings and encourage suggestions from employees on ways of saving energy and making better use of raw materials.
Activities so far:
- We use recycling bins for plastic, paper, glass and cans.
- We introduced a subsidised “buy a bike” scheme and now 12% of our UK staff regularly cycle into work.
- Made an allotment available to staff (within walking distance of the office) to promote organic gardening and consumption of local produce.
- We invested in new printers and photocopiers to allow double-sided printing and introduced centralised printing to encourage employees to use less paper.
- Measuring technology has been installed to allow us to record our energy consumption every half hour.
- We have video conferencing facilities in our offices in the UK, India and the US to reduce as much as possible the need for travel.
- We have introduced low energy lighting throughout the office replacing all 54W strip lights with 28W bulbs.
- We reviewed our IT infrastructure with the twin aims of making it more resilient and reducing our electricity consumption.
Green Team - Alamy India
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Our Green Team was formed in August 2008 by staff members keen to help reduce waste and energy consumption. Through education and awareness, we aim to promote green practices in our offices and throughout Technopark here in Trivandrum, Kerala. Activities so far:
- Reduced paper use by printing less and printing on both sides. Staff members have received training on saving resources such as power and water.
- Increased staff awareness about controlling and reducing pollution from vehicles.
- Planted more trees in the Technopark campus.
- Promoted ‘green’ awareness among school children.
- Implemented a ‘Walk the Walk’ program within Technopark encouraging people to go ‘Green’.