Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day -- "Sit down before fact as a little child,  be prepared to give up every preconceived notion; follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing." ~ Thomas Huxley -- Conscious Business Tips -- We featured the topics of in-house business eco-programs and offered some suggestions in the past, since then we’ve come across some great tips from INiKA Small Earth.Org – in their late Aug newsletter – and I want to share those tips with some of my own elaborations on them today: During a slow period of the day have a member of your staff or two conduct waste audits… what waste is going in which baskets, what kinds of waste are generated by the business. Developing a simple chart is helpful for the staff to do this audit, with categories for different types of recyclables, returnables, e-waste, organics… and so on. Once you have this information you can more easily determine the...