Stork Craft Supports ‘Run For One Planet’
Read the original story at the Stork Craft Manufacturing Blog posted by Adam Segal.
Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc. is proud to support Environmental Action – Run For One Planet against climate change. Coming from the website:
‘The Run for One Planet is an ongoing run endeavour focused on “Inspiring Environmental Action, One Step at a Time”.
The Run for One Planet 2008/2009 North America Tour is our kick-off initiative – a carbon neutral year-long run around the continent by two Canadians, Matt Hill and Stephanie Tait, to inspire Environmental Action. Our goal is to run 1 marathon each per day, inspire 1 million new Actions for Earth and raise $1 Million for our Legacy of Action’
Stork Craft employees filled out the ‘Action Challenge’ at work, committing to at least 1 of 10 actions to minimize our carbon footprint. The actions included:
-Eat Local and Organic
-Turn Off Your Car
-Eliminate Plastic Bags
-Use Green Cleaners
-Turn Off the Lights
-Turn Off the Taps
-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
-Compost
-Bring Your Own Bottle
-Teach Your Children Well
Personally I agreed to a few of the actions such as ‘Turn Off Your Car’ and ‘Eliminate Plastic Bags’. Altogether Stork Craft is very proud to help the environment and reduce climate change through its employees’ actions. Stork Craft also encourages you and/or your company to also be a part of the ‘Action Challenge’.
You can download the form here:http://www.runforoneplanet.org/downloads/R41P_Steps_Form.pdfand post it on the bulletin board in your lunchroom at work, or bring it home with you and post it on the fridge. Hopefully together we can all help make a difference one small step at a time.
Here are some Corporate Initiatives that Stork Craft has in its plans:
•Corporate policy of shutting down all workstations at the end of each work day. This is primarily for security and to help reduce our exposure to power spikes and brown-outs but it will also reduce our energy / carbon footprint.
•Examine our reporting needs. The side benefit is that this may reduce the amount of printing going on because the data may not be currently in a form that is easily manipulated electronically.
We already have timers on our heating and cooling units.
Comment by Adam — Wednesday, September 9, 2009 @ 10:42 am