Comments on: 5 Tips To Encourage Employees To Go Green At The Workplace http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/11/18/5-tips-to-encourage-employees-to-go-green-at-the-workplace/ Green & Sustainable Business Ventures: For Entrepreneurs & Investors Tue, 22 May 2012 15:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Getting Staff Buy-In on Going Green | http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/11/18/5-tips-to-encourage-employees-to-go-green-at-the-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-168332 Getting Staff Buy-In on Going Green | Wed, 09 May 2012 11:51:48 +0000 http://ecopreneurist.com/?p=918#comment-168332 [...] 5 Tips to Encourage Employees to Go Green at the Workplace Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...] [...] 5 Tips to Encourage Employees to Go Green at the Workplace Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

]]> By: 5 Tips To Get Everyone To Go Green at the Office | Greg's Constant Chaos http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/11/18/5-tips-to-encourage-employees-to-go-green-at-the-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-20249 5 Tips To Get Everyone To Go Green at the Office | Greg's Constant Chaos Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:19:08 +0000 http://ecopreneurist.com/?p=918#comment-20249 [...] Here is another set of advice for going green at work, and encouraging your employees to do join in the effort. I link to this post for two reasons, because the article has some good tips, and because it is also a nice blog, with lots of good information, and after you are done reading mine, you should head on over to it, it’s called the Ecopreneurist. [...] [...] Here is another set of advice for going green at work, and encouraging your employees to do join in the effort. I link to this post for two reasons, because the article has some good tips, and because it is also a nice blog, with lots of good information, and after you are done reading mine, you should head on over to it, it’s called the Ecopreneurist. [...]

]]> By: Sean Kerrigan http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/11/18/5-tips-to-encourage-employees-to-go-green-at-the-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-10728 Sean Kerrigan Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:24:51 +0000 http://ecopreneurist.com/?p=918#comment-10728 Thanks for the really great tips on how to improve your company's environmental footprint. I agree that getting employees to buy-in to green programs and intiatives is key any successful implementation. "There are many other ways in which businesses can help employees take more ownership of minimizing waste and reducing energy consumption" I especially liked idea #5. By sharing the utility information with employees, manager and owners can help them realize that the bottom line can effect the future of the company, and hence their employment. Allowing the employees to be part of the planning process of any green initiatives, creates ownership and makes them feel positive about the role they are playing within the business. A recent example of employees not taking ownership of corporate green policy is at Washington State Ferry Corporation. An investigation by a mainstream news team exposed employees throwing recylables collected on the daily ferry routes into the trash. Obviously this lack of effort was a lack of ownership to help reduce waste within this organization. I recently wrote a blog post titled "Afloat in the Greenwash", addressing this issue. I did think there was a positive side to this story as well. http://www.theecologicshop.ca/blogs/green-environmental-issues. Once again, thank you for the great post. Sean Kerrigan Thanks for the really great tips on how to improve your company’s environmental footprint. I agree that getting employees to buy-in to green programs and intiatives is key any successful implementation.

“There are many other ways in which businesses can help employees take more ownership of minimizing waste and reducing energy consumption”

I especially liked idea #5. By sharing the utility information with employees, manager and owners can help them realize that the bottom line can effect the future of the company, and hence their employment.

Allowing the employees to be part of the planning process of any green initiatives, creates ownership and makes them feel positive about the role they are playing within the business.

A recent example of employees not taking ownership of corporate green policy is at Washington State Ferry Corporation. An investigation by a mainstream news team exposed employees throwing recylables collected on the daily ferry routes into the trash. Obviously this lack of effort was a lack of ownership to help reduce waste within this organization.

I recently wrote a blog post titled “Afloat in the Greenwash”, addressing this issue. I did think there was a positive side to this story as well.

http://www.theecologicshop.ca/blogs/green-environmental-issues.

Once again, thank you for the great post.

Sean Kerrigan

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