Maximizing the Green in your Business

We asked one of our high school interns who shows a strong interest in art and design to develop a "Go Green" graphic putting her own touch on it. We hope to display future graphics and artwork from our budding artist!

One of the best ways to save energy in the winter is to lower the temperature on your thermostat. Just lowering the temperature a few degrees can substantially reduce your energy consumption throughout the winter months. Just dress a little warmer and reduce your energy consumption and subsequent monthly bill.

By using less fuel in your automobile, you help the environment as well as your pocketbook. Changes in driving habits and regular maintenance of your vehicle can minimize your fuel usage. To see tips and the resulting savings, CLICK HERE.

Part of the efforts of the Super Bowl committee for the 2012 Super Bowl in Indianapolis is to promote environmental stewardship. There is a committee dedicated solely to this effort. You can join in and be environmentally responsible by taking the "1st & Green" Challenge. Click Here to access this link.

The first step for any company that wants to "go green" should be to ensure that they are in compliance with all of the existing environmental laws and regulations. How do you confirm your compliance.......  perform an environmental audit. You'd be surprised how many companies are doing wonderful things for the environment but are inadvertantly violating existing environmental regulations.

August Mack Environmental has offices in Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Our Ohio office celebrates their 20th anniversary next year. It is located in Dublin, Ohio which is a northern suburb of Columbus, Ohio. Since this blog is related to sustainable solutions and we are located near Columbus, Ohio, we thought we'd provide a link to Get Green Columbus!

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One of the best ways to become environmentally friendly is to minimize the usage of energy. This is also a sustainability solution since it cuts your costs when you save energy. To find out many useful tips and visit an excellent web site, go to the Energy Star web site.

Feel free to post any sustainability solutions that you may have that will help the environment. 

Everyone has great ideas of what other people should do. But what are you doing? Feel free to post any comments here about what you are doing to "go green". Several August Mack employees have ridden their bikes to work. I believe they were doing it for the health benefits but that also helps in the "go green" movement since they would have driven their cars otherwise.

Trying to think of ways to help the environment and divert waste from the landfills. Have you considered composting? Click here for informative information from the EPA website.

The first step in becoming sustainable is to ensure you are in compliance with existing regulations. Are you confident you can meet that fundamental requirement? If not, consider an environmental audit. Call Tom Anderson at 317.916.3105.

A group of nine August Mack employees had to visit a job site earlier this week. Many times in the past, everyone would have piled into their individual cars and met at the job site since they were coming to the site directly from home. But with a little planning, everyone met and took two cars instead of nine cars. The trip was 86 miles round trip so doing a few calculations, the total reduction in gasoline was 33.4 gallons assuming the seven cars would have averaged 18 mpg. Not a lot but every...