{"id":4162,"date":"2014-10-04T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2014-10-04T16:05:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:05:30","slug":"easy-little-steps-you-can-take-to-improve-your-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/easy-little-steps-you-can-take-to-improve-your-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Little Steps You Can Take To Improve Your Environment (While at Work)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately compared with your home-life when you are stuck at work, you are likely to have less control over the environmental impact you are having on the environment.<\/h2>\n

You may be lucky and the people you work for may make a conscious effort to minimize the environmental impact<\/a> their business is having on the world, but this is unfortunately still not commonplace and companies tend to focus on profit rather than environmental issues. But remember that you yourself can always do something to improve your environment.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, this is beginning to change and organizations are starting to see the benefits of managing their own environmental impact such as becoming carbon neutral, even some of the world’s biggest businesses such as Sky, Microsoft, Coca Cola, and UPS have all pledged to become carbon neutral.<\/p>\n

If your employers are less environmentally inclined then don\u2019t worry, there are still some easy little steps you can take to improve the environment and make a change while you\u2019re at work.<\/p>\n

Become personally carbon neutral<\/h3>\n

Your company may not have pledged to become carbon neutral but you can. Visit carbonify.com<\/span> to find out how much carbon you emit on your daily commute to and from work, as well as generally in your life \u2013 then read on to find out ways you can offset your usage.<\/p>\n

One of the simplest ways to achieve a personal commuting carbon reduction<\/a> is to not commute at all. Okay for most people that is pretty much impossible but how about working from home for 1 day a week?<\/span> Even one day a month would massively reduce the total carbon emission caused by a medium-sized company. Better still:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cycle to work!<\/h3>\n

I\u2019ll keep this short because your annoyingly smug colleague already rants on about how you should cycle to work because you \u2018only live just up the road\u2019. The fact is for a lot of people cycling to work is just not an option, but for many, it is the best option:<\/p>\n