7 Tips and Tricks for Making Your Office Greener

So, you want to contribute to a more eco-friendly world, right? Many people do, which is why it’s such a big deal for people to look at their options when it comes to how they can make their workplaces as green as they can be. How do you do that? Here are 7 tips that you can try for a more eco-friendly office. 7 Tips and Tricks for Making Your Office Greener

  1. Encourage Your Staff to Bring their Own Reusable Items Like Mugs and Cups. Instead of having waste paper and plastic products, why not encourage your staff to have their own reusable items, like mugs, cups, and water bottles? If they can’t get them on their own, consider providing them for them – you can usually get them in bulk for an affordable cost.
  2. Recycle, Recycle, Recycle. What can’t you recycle? Not much nowadays – so it’s worth it to consider what options that you have for recycling your paper waste. Take a look at what you can do to make the process easier for co-workers and separate things out so that you don’t have so much trash in the office.
  3. Consider Buying Eco-Friendly Pens. Did you know that you can get eco-friendly pens made from recycled products? It’s true! And at some sites, you can even design your own pen and get them in bulk for your business, allowing you to reduce the carbon footprint of your workplace and promote your green business at the same time.
  4. Find a Cleaning Company or Professional that Uses Chemical Free, Green Products for Cleaning Purposes. Cleaning chemicals are a huge problem that needs to be dealt with properly. Whether you have someone that works for your company or you call someone in to deal with cleaning, talk to them to see if they use chemical free, green products for cleaning – it can make a big difference.
  5. Use Both Sides of a Piece of Paper. If you’re printing on a regular basis, take the time to figure out how to print on both sides of the paper. It will save paper and it will ensure that your waste is much less. It makes it easier for people to keep everything together as well.
  6. Turn Off Electronics or Put Them in Standby Mode When Not in Use. Make sure that your employees or co-workers are turning off their electronics or putting them in standby mode when not in use. It will reduce the energy that they are using and it could end up helping those electronics to last longer as well.
  7. Use Technology to Reduce Commutes. There are a lot of ways to reduce your commute times to the office. Whether you’re using something like Skype to do a teleconference with someone that’s far away, or you’re setting up carpools, each of those things can be really significant when it comes to reducing your commute time, and thus reducing the amount of emissions that vehicles are making when they go to and from your company.

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Avoid These 7 Weight Loss Mistakes

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Can’t seem to shift those pounds? Here are some of the most popular blunders that prevent people from losing weight effectively and what you should be doing instead.

Skipping meals

Starving yourself isn’t an effective means of weight loss. Whilst you may lower your intake of calories, you could also be denying your body many healthy nutrients that it requires in order to function well. This could have an effect on your immune system and concentration. On top of this, skipping meals can make us hungrier, which leads to eating binges. Eating a huge amount in a short amount of time is harder for our bodies to digest – much of it gets stored as fat because our body finds this to be an easier method of processing. Eating smaller portions throughout the day could prevent this, giving our bodies more time to digest.

Relying on pills

Weight loss pills can be effective, but only as a supplement to dieting and exercise. On their own, they’re unlikely to achieve much of an impact. Pills also have associated risks because they’re not a natural form of weight loss – they have been linked to heart disease and have had other reported side effects such as mood swings and constipation.

Exercising, but not changing your diet

Many people go to the gym hoping to burn off extra calories, but their unhealthy diet get in the way of making any impact. Processed foods, sugary drinks, alcohol and large amounts of carbs can all cancel out the effect of exercise. Healthy eating doesn’t have to be boring – you should try a meal replacement diet that appeals to you such as incorporating shakes or decreasing portioning. You may want to hire a dietician to help you come up with a meal plan.  

Changing your diet, but not exercising

Vice versa, if you’re eating healthy but remaining inactive all day, you can similarly expect to make little progress. The reason we store fat is to use it as energy – if you’re not being active you’re simply adding to your reserves. Start exercising using a type of physical activity that motivates you. You don’t have to join a gym or jog in the rain –  you can exercise from the comfort of your home in front of the TV. Hiring a personal trainer could be helpful for coming up with an exercise regime to suit your lifestyle and preferences.

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Ignoring weight lifting

Endurance activities such as running, cycling and swimming are all great for losing weight, but weightlifting can have it’s benefits too and isn’t just a means of gaining muscle. Lifting weights gives out bodies a metabolism spike, which allows us to burn calories for a long period after exercise is over. By switching between a week of endurance activities and a week of weightlifting exercises you can also stop your body getting too used to one style of exercise, which can make it easier to lose weight (predictive activities can sometimes cause your body to fight against weight loss, which is why you shouldn’t just stick to one routine). 

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Failing to track progress

Without tracking progress you don’t know how far you’ve come or how far you need to go to reach your weight loss goal. This can cause many of us to lose motivation, because instead of being focused on small steps of progress we’re too focused on the end result. It’s important to track your progress each week and then make new micro-goals for the next week. You should make a ritual of stepping on the scales or measuring your waist once a week and then recording the results. Weight loss apps meanwhile can record various other data such as the amount of calories you’ve consumed in a week or the amount of steps you’ve made. All of this gives you small goals to work towards that are more within your reach.

Thinking short-term

Some people have no problem shifting the pounds, it’s keeping them off that’s the problem. The yo-yo effect is a term described to losing weight, putting it back on again and then repeating the cycle. Most people get sucked into this cycle because they treat weight loss as a temporary change of lifestyle when really there needs to be some permanent changes in order to not go back to your old ways. Whilst you can resort to crash dieting as a way of quickly shedding the pounds, it’s important to then make some permanent changes that will stop you going back to your original size. Think about sacrifices that you can keep forever, whether it’s eating less junk food or spending less time in front of the TV.

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