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Commitment to Care for May 2023
You may work at a workplace or remotely. You may work for wages or salaries or as a volunteer for an organization. What can you influence in “your workplace” to support? 
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Green the work space and work practices
Some ideas:
  • Make or encourage purchases of local products? recycled paper products?
  • Avoid purchasing and reduce amount of single use plastics?
  • Purchase products with no/less packaging, especially avoiding plastic?
  • Add plants to green work space with healthier air?
  • Bring a refillable water bottle to work?

Advocate with employers to green your company, agency
Some ideas:
  • Provide water bottle refill stations?
  • Use programmable thermostats? 
  • Use motion-sensing for lighting and faucets?
  • Replace non-LED light bulbs with LEDs?
  • Suggest reducing lawn and adding native plants to the grounds if your workplace owns its building?

Promote greening among fellow workers and clients/customers/students
  • Some ideas:
  • Use electronic media rather than paper?
  • Find ways to encourage employees to carpool to work? To lunch together?
  • Start composting coffee grounds as a way to reduce trash and create healthier soil?
  • Provide updates about what is recyclable and what is not?
  • Share ideas about ways you save energy at home?
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