Green Office Guide: A Guide to Greening Your Bottom Line Through a Resource-Efficient Office Environment

Every workday, office employees make decisions that affect global warming, air pollution, and other environmental issues, says this report prepared by the City of Portland’s Office of Sustainable Development, which details the ways in which offices can reduce resource consumption and improve environmental performance. Its first chapter provides an overview of the resources consumed within offices: energy for lighting, heating, and cooling buildings; fuel for employees’ transportation to work; and, last but not least, paper. In the chapters that follow, discover resource-saving choices for: heating and cooling, lighting, office equipment, paper products, transportation and parking, and water use. Each section includes brief case studies.