For example, measure how much electricity and natural gas your facility regularly uses; can it be reduced? How many employees drive to work alone? Can they carpool or take mass transit? How many business trips are taken that could be handled via Web conferencing?
9. Go paperless. The Simon & Schuster sales division recently launched an electronic manuscript program in which all sales reps have been given an e-book reader, replacing photocopied manuscripts. “Reps will now download manuscripts, and only those manuscripts that they choose to read. S&S estimates that this initiative has the potential to reduce the number of manuscripts reproduced for its sales division by 20,000 per year,” says Rothberg, who notes that a similar e-book reader program is currently being piloted by a Simon & Schuster editorial department.