What Can You Do?

• Try to live a greener life. When you buy products, look for those that allow impact over their entire lifecycle; energy, consumption, resource use, pollution and waste generation.

• While recycling is good, reusing is better. Try to avoid throwing things away that you can easily reuse. As much as possible, only use a new or disposable product when there's no reusable alternative available.

• Before you can make a difference you must understand your own impact on the environment - measure your carbon footprint by checking out the carbon calculator at www.carbonneutral.com

• We can collectively save tonnes of CO2 just by turning our computers off at night and during lunch breaks.

• Millions of PCs every year end up in landfill or storage; yet in the developing world 99% of all school children have never seen one at all. Consider how your old technology is disposed and put it to good use. (Computer Aid International)

• Drink out of reusable cups – if 11 people each stopped using one disposable cup per day, they would save 1 tonne of CO2 a year.

• Think before you print. You can save 50g of CO2 by printing a 100 page document double-sided, instead of single-sided. You can save 100g by not printing it at all. Additionally, the plastic used in a typical printer cartridge is expected to take at least 1,000 years to decompose. Over 1 billion of them are discarded every year (Recharger Magazine).

• Ask us to present our next design concepts by using digital media programmes such as PowerPoint, PDFs, etc., and help us avoid printing any unnecessary documents.

• Work with us to produce eco-friendly design solutions – Together we can make a difference.