by Head Green Guru | Oct 8, 2018 | Best Practices and Tools, Sustainability, Tips
By Ana Toepel and Deborah Fleischer, Green Impact, (originally run on UCSF’s Sustainability Website) When you load a ream of paper into the copy machine, you might not realize the environmental impacts your choice of paper could have. Now there is a new choice...
by Head Green Guru | Oct 8, 2018 | Environmental Health, Sustainability
By Ana Toepel and Deborah Fleischer, Green Impact, July 2018 (originally run on UCSF’s Sustainability Website) Summer might be over, but with the unseasonable warm fall we are having in California, it seems timely to highlight how to protect ourselves and the...
by Head Green Guru | Oct 8, 2018 | Environmental Health, Sustainability
Written by Ana Toepel, originally run on UCSF’s sustainability website. When you are at the café or grocery store and handed a receipt, you may not even think twice about taking it. But it turns out that this small, seemingly insignificant slip of paper may have...
by Head Green Guru | Jan 30, 2018 | Best Practices and Tools, Climate Change, Sustainability
You survived the holidays. But are you ready for the next big consumer-oriented holiday: Valentine’s Day? I am a romantic at heart (I painted the heart painting above), but the tradition of celebrating love with chocolate, roses, and jewelry leaves a wake of...
by Dfleischer | Aug 16, 2017 | Best Practices and Tools, Employee Engagement & Green Teams, Sustainability, Tips
Employee engagement programs and Web-based tools can increase adoption of green practices and make sustainability more visible and actionable. If you have strategic sustainability goals, the following simple tips can help align employee actions to support your...
by Head Green Guru | Jun 15, 2017 | Best Practices and Tools, Communications and Sustainability Reporting, Sustainability, Tips
I think my past year of participating in Toastmasters has impacted how I evaluate a speech. After attending a recent conference, I left feeling a tad frustrated and disappointed. Before your next presentation, consider these three tips for how to make a bigger impact:...