The Changes

When giving presents to the friends of my child I am now going to consciously avoid anything that is over packaged. I was actually offended by the level of waste that her recent 4th birthday party generated in terms of ribbons, paper and plastic barbie packaging.

Off the top of my head here are my thoughts:(Please don't read this if you are overly politically correct it's just my point of view - and some opinions are liable to change with time.)

I work at Vancity and my colleague Heather recently had a great idea. We prepare an agenda for our weekly team meeting and have traditionally printed out copies for everyone. We recently had large monitors added to our meetings rooms and she suggested that we just look at the agenda on the screen instead of printing hard copies. It seems like such a small thing, but it starts to add up.

Here are three things that I’m really proud of and the people I want to recognize:

1. My colleague Jennifer in Community Business Banking who always brings her lunch in reusable containers – she must have saved at least a tonne of waste from going to the landfill in the four years I’ve known her.

Successful student run program to build capacity and support students' sustainability initiatives

Enterprising Non-Profit Introduction to Social Enterprise Workshop – Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

How can digital media help communicate or mobilize action on environmental sustainability?
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At Radha, we've put money and time into retrofitting our building so that it uses less energy - to heat, cool and light the space.

In the attached photo, you can see one of the 12 Solatube tubular skylights we've installed. Now that we have them, we often don't need to use electric lights in our building in the daytime!