The most noticeable things are:

- signs, mugs, and cups that offer the age old mantra of “Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.”, as well as some tips on how to accomplish those things (see the image at the bottom of this post)


- we all telecommute one day a week


- actual recycling bins in the breakroom area


- a soda machine instead of cans of soda


- a water cooler instead of bottles of water. This is important for me to note since my last job *only* had bottled water and wouldn’t even consider getting a water cooler – even though I continually brought it up….


- the building is Energy Star certified – although that’s not the companies doing, but still pretty cool

Things I’m trying to do here to do my part is to recycle as much as I can since they make it so easy to do, educate my co-workers if there is an opportunity to (most of them didn’t even notice the recycling bins until I pointed them out!), and I’m starting a little herb garden at my desk that will hopefully provide some garnishment, be aromatic, and provide some entertainment (no – I’m not expecting them to become animated and do tricks). I bought the herb garden kit at Lowe’s for less than $5 and it comes with a mini greenhouse, six little planters, growing medium, and a pack each of parsley, basil, and chives. I went to a store close to work and also got cilantro and oregano as well to add some variety. We’ll see how it goes.

Here’s a picture of one of the signs hung up around the office that I mentioned earlier:

I’ve been a little busy lately coming up to speed at the new job so I haven’t been updating as often as I’d like, but I will take some pictures and post them sometime this week.