True that my travel is an awful glut on the environment, but I do try to offset with those airlines that allow for it and I support Virgin America, who is working towards bio-fuel airplanes. I've also been turning down more travel these days because Dopplr shows you your carbon footprint and I had a bit of a cry when I saw mine from last year. I, personally, don't own a car. That's an environment decision. I use my feet, public transit, trains and, absolutely only when I have to, Zipcar, a community car-sharing program. When I travel to NYC, I don't ever take a cab - it's inefficient and way less fun than the subway. I will do Super Shuttle or the like to go to the airport because I'm super anxious about missing flights, but, once, again, shared transportation only.
Personally, I green my home like we've greened the office, CFLs, keep the heater off (use the windows and blinds), HE (energy efficient) appliances, virtually paper free (about 1/4 through a ream of paper after 2 years), recycle, reuse ziplock baggies, use recycled TP/coffee filters/paper towels, turn lights off when I leave a room, unplug all electronics during the day I'm not using, etc. It results in awesomely low energy bills, too. ;) I also try to eat at home as much as possible, shop at Rainbow, the farmers market and Trader Joes, where I know they have high standards on fair wages and use organically grown and fairly local. The area that I'm really really bad in is my clothing and shoe addiction, but I do make sure that I take anything I don't wear any longer to the Salvation Army or Goodwill and today a group of friends are doing a clothing swap. :) T On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I know a number of coworking space make quite a bit of effort in being > green, I'm wondering though, at the same time a number of founders and > members are also very nomadic, spending time in a variety of places, > travelling a lot, going to conferences, etc. That polutes A LOT. I > rarely hear talk about trains or offsetting. What are your policies in > that regard? Do you offset everything? Where? And if you have such > personal policies, shouldn't we put more emphasis on those? We > evangelize the freelancing/coworking "lifestyle" quite a bit but I > dont think enough time is spent on thinking and presenting solutions > regarding our environmental impact. > > > Patrick > station-c.com > > > -- -- tara 'missrogue' hunt Book: The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business ( http://www.amazon.com/Whuffie-Factor-Capital-Winning-Communities/dp/0307409503?ie=UTF8 ) Company: Citizen Agency (http://www.citizenagency.com) Blog: HorsePigCow: Marketing Uncommon (http://www.horsepigcow.com) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/missrogue phone: 415-694-1951 fax: 415-727-5335 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
