My Company is a Closet Green Freak

Of all the days to leave my camera at home! I really wished I had my digi cam on me because I had 2 green-related moments (and maybe more) that brought a smile to my face.

Ok, so my company is moving to a new office and it's been refreshing to hear people pipe up in staff meetings asking how green our new office build-out is, demanding we have legit recycling, and the like. If time permitted I wish I convinced the overseers of the project to contact a green contractor of sorts to make sure everything from paint to carpeting to equipment to lighting was going to be eco-friendly. I have not gotten any official reports on how green things are going to be but during our little field trip over to the new space to check out the progress I noticed little stickers on some newly installed wood panels. Little FSC stickers were everywhere! FSC stands for the Forest Stewardship Council, a non-profit organization dealing with responsible forest management. You can read more about it on their site (linked here). That is one way we are being official about our green-ness. Now to shake them down to give me the details about our paint, for starters...


Next smile-worthy moment? My boss' shoes. As we all filed out into the parking I looked down and noticed that the CEO was not sporting his usual patent-business-casual-esque-shoes but was sporting some Keen Footwear. Keen shoes are amazing sustainable shoes with sustainable packaging and are just overall amazing! If I noticed correctly, my boss was wearing the Ventura shoe which are 100% Vegan. His wife worked with Live Earth and picked him up a pair from the event. He rocked them well!



Very excited for the new office and since we are starting fresh in a new space I've got some plans to wean my office off waste. More on my master plan later...