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GreenBiz Upcoming Forum

The Integris Team — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:42:45 +0000

This Video is one, “What if”… what’re yours?

Greenbiz provides online news and information resources on how to align environmental responsibility with business success. It offers more than 8,000 resources, including daily news and feature stories, reports, checklists, case studies, and links to organizations, technical assistance programs, government agencies, and recognition programs.

This October 11th-13th, GreenBiz is holding its 2011 GreenBiz Innovation Forum (if11), in San Francisco.

“Experience How Sustainable Innovation Happens”

Get an Invite to listen to speakers who are experts in their (often emerging) fields, or become a sponsor or speaker yourself!

Do you look at the world with ideas for change?
Do you think there is more than what we know out there?
Do you feel the need to be green minded in the world we live in?
Are you interested in sustainability from a business standpoint?

Then this forum could be for you!!

Whether you go to the if11 Forum or not, feel free to share your What If’s with us here, or n our Facebook Fan Page, or Tweet us! We’d love to talk green with you!

Your Digital Carbon Footprint?!

The Integris Team — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:32:54 +0000

GO GREEN!

We, at Integris Marketing have taken this idea and made it our own. We fully believe that the planet will not get better on its own, and as its stewards, we should do what we can to help so that we have this beautiful planet for our children and grandchildren to come.

Check out this new widget for going green at work: http://www.digitalcarbongroup.co.uk/

We frequently search out news on what other ‘greeners’ are doing and how it is affecting the green movement. We recently came across an interesting little widget that tracks your digital carbon footprint for you – and can point out ways to reduce your energy consumption at work! Easy to use and with analytics that can be reported back to the boss – why not make an impact at your company today?!

If you have ideas and green things to share – we’d love to hear them!!

This Makes My Day – A “Green Shipping” article we helped a client with…

The Integris Team — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:21:15 +0000

You work hard, you learn things, and over time you get better at what you do… and there is a sense of satisfaction in that.

Sometimes clients rave, sometimes not, and sometimes things just click and you don’t even know it… all while you are busy in the trenches doing what needs to be done and busily doing the best you can.

Then something like this pops into our email “in box” that makes us all smile. It’s an affirmation of why we do what we do and why we do it.

The background is this: Client (Creative Coverings) had been doing some experimenting with some new shipping bags for returning fabric and linen rentals from large events. They were trying to lower the cost of the process as well as the carbon footprint of the return shipping process. Then voila! They came up with the idea of reusable Return Shipping Duffel Bags that could be easily reused and would still work with the UPS bulk processing shipping system. The light bulb went on and they roughed out an article and handed it to us for review. Well we took that article and polished it up so it was fit for media consumption, and then the buzz, excitement and kudos came rolling in! Here is what the client sent us to let us know what had happened.

I just wanted to say thank you to Christian, Judith and Blair for all of your efforts with the Green Shipping Service article. I sent out to NNBW, RGJ, Catersource, Rental Management, Special Events, ISES, and Entrepreneur this morning. The response has been fantastic. NNBW is running on Monday and complimented on what a well written article it was, along with mentioning that he (NNBW Editor) thinks we could get some national exposure with this one.

Lisa Hurley, the editor of Special Events Mag thought it was great and Rental Management is going to come by the ARA booth to see the bag. -

So this morning I sit a little higher and straighter in my chair with a sense that we do actually make a difference from time to time… Maybe more than we know.

Greening Your Business, 10 Easy Baby Steps!

Jenna Brooke O'Neil — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:25:04 +0000

Going green is a process, like most everything else. It’s absolutely OK to break it down into baby steps so it’s more manageable. Use the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Sweetie!) approach and do what you can.

Greening your business really is good for your bottom line, both in terms of reducing your expenses and by pulling in the new generation of environmentally committed consumers who are looking for green businesses to patronize.

Here are ten simple baby steps you can take:

Power down all the computers in your office when your business is closed.
Banish your phantom power vampires with power strips. We like the Smart Strip.
Replace regular incandescent light bulbs with florescent bulbs; “CFL” (Compact Florescent Lamp) bulbs are no longer have the annoying hum and harsh light they once did. CostCo has great prices for multi-bulb packages of CFL’s.
Go Digital.

• send invoices via email (we use Quickbooks Online)
• use email for: marketing programs, promos, ezines and newsletters, printable coupons (Constant Contact is very popular)
• develop an electronic press kit (EPK) for your business
• use pdf’s for sharing documents (including those being edited back & forth) & forms (they can be locked for security)
• testing this new bullet (Shift-return is a “soft return”… Option8 give the bullet point character)

Buy 100% recycled, 100% post-consumer paper for your printers and copiers. We like the Wausau Exact Eco 100, it’s processed chlorine free, is Green Seal and Forest Stewardship Council certified. You can get a carton of 10 reams from Office Depot for around $75.
Use Green Print to eliminate unwanted pages from being printed.
Recycle your office paper by inserting it back into your printer/copier to use the blank side.
If you’re a restaurant, sell your cooking oil for use in converted diesel vehicles; offer your food scraps to farmers and gardeners for animal food and compost.
Park your website with a company that offers solar and/or wind powered servers. (We can help with that! http://www.integrishosting.com/)
Calculate and Offset Your Business’s Carbon Footprint