Green Options » corporate environment http://greenoptions.com/tag/corporate-environment Posts tagged 'corporate environment' Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:30:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en (Not) Seeing Eye to Eye With Co-Workers About the Business of Earth http://sustainablog.org/2008/08/20/not-seeing-eye-to-eye-with-co-workers-about-the-business-of-earth/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/08/20/not-seeing-eye-to-eye-with-co-workers-about-the-business-of-earth/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:30:12 +0000 Adam Williams http://sustainablog.org/2008/08/20/not-seeing-eye-to-eye-with-co-workers-about-the-business-of-earth/ What to do when colleagues in the workplace just won’t — will not, will not, will not — reach a little further to the left with that grip of paper they no longer want hanging around, instead opting for the trash can rather than the nearby recycling bin?

Not long ago, when I finally joined Big Cooperate America after resisting for more than a decade, it didn’t take long to realize I had cloaked myself in an environment that was not ‘green.’

The company, a rather major one, considers itself an environmentally aware corporation. And it is — to an extent.

But only to the extent of its masses, which are still more inclined to consider recycling paper and plastic bottles the cutting edge of the green game.

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