Hi, Hilary here. I thought we'd have a break from all the in-depth calculation of emissions and look at some work-related issues for a change. I've just been trying to find venues for training courses that I organise and run as part of my job. I was delighted to find a room in the 60L building for our Melbourne course. The 60L is advertised as 'a commercially viable, healthy, low energy, resource-efficient workplace with minimal impact on the environment'.
Spurred on by this success, I decided to look for something equivalent in other cities. My email to a venue-finding service in Brisbane met with the response 'I could certainly look for an environmentally-friendly training room for you if I knew what it was'. Sadly, even when I suggested some possible attributes (natural light, passive heating and cooling, or even a policy on recycling), there was nothing that met the bill, so I'll just have to use an environmentally hostile venue. It was the same story in Sydney and Canberra; obviously environmental aspects are not high on most people's list when looking for a training room, which is a shame, given that it's often almost impossible to get the temperature right with air conditioning.
On the positive side, our business has decided to go for a recycled corporate pen. In choosing a pen, we tossed up between a fancy psychedelic number that was sent to us on spec by a pen-supplying company (one that puts your company's name on the pen already, to tempt you to buy it), and two recycled options - one with a casing made from recycled paper, the other a plastic-looking one made from old car parts, available from Biome. After a heated discussion (the psychedelic model had some strong supporters), the recycled car part pen won out because it was retractable, available in our corporate colour (blue), relatively cheap and consistent with our company's policy of 'reducing, reusing and recycling' wherever possible.
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