After 2 unsuccessful buckets with the Bokashi method we became a little discouraged and started looking into other composting methods. Our new employee offered to take compost home as she has a backyard composter. These composters are supplied by the City of Vancouver for $25, are perfect for backyard use and have little to no smell.

We are now using 100% post consumer recycled paper (ethanol and chlorine free – FSC certified) for all of our external documents and as always we will continue to print on both sides of the paper for internal documents and external where appropriate. We have also started to use resealable and in turn reusable foil bags for the packing of our cartridges. These small changes were easy to implement and will be saving a ton of waste!

Walmart is selling a new PC computer online called the Green gPC, made by Everex of Taiwan and designed for low power consumption. Cost is only $199.00 US. It will be available in approximately 600 stores as well as online. Nice to see that even technology is recognizing ways to go green. Read more

We were initially excited that the Globe and Mail featured us in an article on recycling at the office. We thought the article would discuss how simple it really is to have an environmentally-friendly office and the benefits of it, but were very disappointed to find that they were writing about the difficulty of it all. It was in the paper yesterday, here is the link.