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11 Easy Steps to Reduce your Environmental Footprint

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Content starts here Businesses of all sizes are increasingly focused on leaving a smaller environmental footprint. In fact, 83 percent of small business owners indicated in a recent study sponsored by HP Canada and Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) that ‘green’ factors play a role when purchasing technology for their business.

Listed below are 11 easy strategies you can implement today to help your business become more environmentally efficient by conserving energy and minimizing carbon output, which will ultimately save your business money.

	11 Easy Steps to ‘Green’ Your Business:
	1.		Turn off equipment Don’t forget to turn off computers and printers at the end of the day. This conserves energy and prolongs the life of your equipment.
	2.	Turn down the heat Turning down the heat in the winter and easing off the air conditioning in the summer can drastically cut down the CO2 emissions from burning fuel and at the same time shave some dollars off the corporate budget.
	3.	Host a teleconference Many notebook PCs now come with built-in webcams and there is no better time to start using them. Instead of driving frantically across town to make that 11 a.m. meeting, arrange for everyone to meet on the Web.
	4.	Check the supply room From paper clips to staples, there are many ways to save the environment from the wasted use of office supplies. For example, reuse paperclips instead of throwing them away and use a staple-less stapler that uses friction to bind your documents.
	5.	Set your computer to sleep Set your computer to go into sleep mode when you aren’t using it. Contrary to popular believe, screen savers don’t save electricity, but sleep mode can cut your power consumption by five times, cutting your electricity bills by more than 500 kilowatt hours per year.
	6.	Use energy efficient products Choosing the right product for the environment can help reduce your overall TCO. Today’s PC manufacturers offer products with new low-voltage processors and more efficient power supplies to help conserve energy.
	7.	Buy green Tell suppliers that you’re interested in sustainable products and set specific goals for buying recycled, refurbished or used products. Make the environment a factor when purchasing.
	8.	Use a balanced deployment model Using a model where selective desktop, centralized workgroup and data center printing exists will reduce your overall power consumption and supply costs.
	9.	Get employees involved Appoint a leader to spearhead your company’s eco-efforts and determine where you can have the biggest impact for the least amount of money.
	10.	Communicate Inform suppliers and customers about your efforts. Get in touch with local regulatory agencies who offer financial incentives to businesses that clean up their acts.
	11.	Recycle Choose suppliers who take back packaging, supplies and hardware for reuse.

HP's Planet Partners recycling service provides an easy way to recycle any brand of computer equipment or HP printing supplies. HP's state-of-the-art processes ensure that unwanted hardware or empty HP printing supplies are recycled responsibly. For more information, please visit www.hp.ca/recycle.

HP Canada offers a wide selection of energy efficient products that can help ensure your small business has an even smaller environmental footprint. To learn more about Energy Efficient Computing, please visit http://www.hp.ca/portal/smb/pc_expert/desktops/energy_efficent/index.html.