The Green Office project, launched in 2008, provides a 'road map' to businesses showing how they can start implementing and/or maintaining a greener office environment from a Bermuda-centric perspective. By following the Green Office road map, companies can save money, save energy, improve the health of the building and those in it, boost staff morale and potentially help make changes to individual lifestyle choices.
Energy efficiency is often called the low-hanging fruit of a clean-energy economy. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu likes to say it's not just hanging, it's rotting on the ground.
The easy pickings are apparently not that easy, though. Energy efficiency programs have picked up speed in the past few years with concerns about the bottom line and/or sustainability, but those programs often come in fits and starts.
Guardian Data Solutions revealed its 2011 paper recycling data in a February 14 news announcement.
According to their news release, paper recycling is alive and well in Bermuda with nearly 90% of the paper waste generated from Guardian's secure document destruction service being recycled in 2011, compared to 80% in 2010.
Solar power is being adopted on the Island at an increasing rate, with the number of applications for solar developments doubling year-on-year.
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