10 Ways to Mark Earth Day at Your Company
在您公司纪念地球日的10种方法
（一）Celebrate Mother Earth by launching these sustainable initiatives at your company.
By Inc. Staff | Apr 22, 2010
（一）在您的公司开展可持续发展的活动倡议来庆祝地球日。
作者：Inc.工作组 2010年4月22日
（二）April 22, 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, an event designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the environment. Many businesses may also wish to use the press coverage surrounding the day to launch sustainable and environmentally-friendly initiatives. Here are 10 steps you can take today to reduce your carbon footprint, cut down on waste, and build sustainability into your business's daily operations.
（二）2010年4月22日是庆祝地球日40周年，这个日子意义在于唤起人们对环境的认识和保护而订立的。新闻报道每天都围绕着让企业开展可持续发展的活动和环保的倡议。以下有10种方法帮助您的公司降低碳排放量，减少浪费，把可持续发展的活动融入到你的日常商务工作里面。
（三）1. Determine Your Energy ConsumptionMany companies put the cart before the horse by launching green initiatives without first benchmarking their current energy and raw-material consumption. But before you begin being green, you have to know how ungreen you really are. The EPA's Energy Star program offers a set of tools called Portfolio Manager to help you gauge your energy and water use. The agency has also developed spreadsheets ("energy performance indicators") that allow manufacturers in certain industries to judge their own consumption.
（三）1.确定您公司的能源消耗。
许多公司在推行环保之前没有对能源和原材料消耗的进行评估，这种做法是本末倒置的。在开始环保行动之前，您必须知道公司不环保的地方在哪里。 EPA的能源之星计划提供了一套工具，名为投资组合管理，帮助衡量您公司的能源和水的使用。该机构还开发了电子表格（“能源业绩指标”），使制造商可以控制自己的产品能源消耗。
（四）Commissioning, which simply means making sure building systems are running as designed, is a major part of this process because systems degrade over time and must be periodically retested. Such re- (or retro-) commissioning pays huge dividends, according to a recent study sponsired by the Energy Department. A 15 percent reduction in energy use at a cost of just 27 cents per square foot, for a payback time of less than nine months, the report found.
（四）测试工作，只是意味着确保建设系统按照设计方案运行，因为随着时间的推移，测试中的重要组成部分，必须定期重新测试。根据美国能源部sponsired最近的一项研究，这种重复（或回收）测试工作需支付巨额股息。该报告指出，每平方尺节省15%能源的费用成本只需27美分，但需要九个月的时间回收成本。
（五）2. Use Less PaperIt's easy to print out your e-mails or copy a pdf presentation for 30 people without ever considering the trees and the energy it takes to create those crisp, white sheets. U.S. businesses still use about 21 million tons of paper each year. It doesn't have to be this way. Paperless contracts are real, and their popularity is growing more everyday. Thanks to a law passed by Congress in 2000, any signature made electronically—whether it's typing your name at the bottom of an e-mail, pushing an "Accept" button, or using an electronic pen and pad—is just as binding as an old-fashioned pen-and-paper John Hancock. (五)2.少用纸张。
30人当中没几个人会意识到，当你轻松地把邮件和电子产品介绍书打印出来的时候，这些整洁的白色纸张资源是来自于树木。每年美国的企业仍然使用约2100万吨纸。完全没必要造成这种浪费。无纸合同是存在的，他们的受欢迎程度日益提高。感谢国会于2000年通过以电子签名来代替书写签名的议案，在电子邮件键入您的名字，按“接受”按钮，或使用电子笔和电子签名版，这跟用传统的笔和纸签上您的名字一样亲切。
（六）A different tactic for eliminating paper: avoid it for storing or circulating information. Instead, use e-mail to send and review reports, edit materials online, ask that information be sent to you electronically, and save things on a hard drive, CD-ROM or other electronic memory device, according to an Environmental Protection Agency office paper reduction tip sheet. Also, look into software tools that stem printer waste. GreenPrint, a Portland, Oregon company, makes software that analyzes documents sent to the printer for wasteful characteristics like a last page with just a URL or banner ad and stops them from printing out. The enterprise version also provides statistics that companies can use to monitor paper use. FinePrint Software, a San Francisco company, sells a similar product. （六）減少使用纸张的策略：避免重复储存或流通资料。使用电子邮件发送和审查报告，用在线方式编辑材料来代替纸张，当你使用电邮发送或查阅一个报告的时候，可以利用网络工具进行编辑，回复咨询可使用电子发送方式，当你储存资料时可以储存在硬盘、光盘或者其他电子存储器上。此外，利用软件工具查阅来杜绝打印耗材的浪费。波特兰的Oregon公司研发的绿色打印软件，能够分析并阻止打印只有一个URL的页面或横幅广告。企业版还提供统计数据，企业可以用它来监测用纸。三藩市一个公司销售类似功能的FinePrint软件。
（七）3. Take a Look at Your WindowsIn 2007, Anthony Malkin, whose family owns the Empire State Building and whose real-estate investment firm manages it, announced a plan to reduce the skyscraper's energy use 38 percent by 2013, saving $4.4 million in the process. Surprisingly, changing the windows will play a big part in the money savings. Malkin contracted Serious Materials, a manufacturer of sustainable windows and drywall based in Silicon Valley, to make energy-efficient all 6,514 windows—roughly 26,000 panes of glass in the historic building. But Malkin, who had had new, dual-pane windows installed as recently as the 1990s, hated the idea of simply throwing all that glass away. Serious Materials has a process that transforms the old glass into super-insulating glass four times more efficient than most energy-efficient windows. （七）3.检查你的窗户。
（七）拥有帝国大厦和房地产投资公司管理的Anthony Malkin，于2007年宣布了一项计划——即是到2013年减少摩天大楼的能源使用38%，这个过程能够节省440万美元。令人惊讶的是，改造窗户是这个省钱计划的重要部分。Malkin在硅谷基地研发的Serious Materials项目，是可循环使用的窗户和灰墙，6514扇节能窗户和大约26000块窗户玻璃用在摩天大楼。但是当使用新的中空玻璃窗户的时候，MALKIN在20世纪90年代就有最新的中空玻璃窗户，却反对丢弃旧式窗户的玻璃的做法。Serious Materials项目成功地将旧的窗户转换成超级隔热玻璃的四倍最节能高效的玻璃。
（八）If changing all the windows isn't an option, an alternative is treating windows with a low-emission glaze that reflects long-wave heat rays in sunlight. As a result, offices stay cool in the summer using less air conditioning. Retrofitting windows with so-called sun shelves or light shelves may help also. Made of perforated metal and painted white, the shelves sit under the top fourth of the windows (like a higher window sill). They can bring up to 50% additional daylight into a space when placed on south-facing windows.
（八）如果更改所有的窗户不是一种选择，另一种就是改造低排放的窗户釉，反射太阳光的长波热射线。因此，在夏天办公室内能够保持清凉而减少使用空调。比如的百叶窗或加装窗户也有帮助。在金属片上穿孔和漆成白色，货架坐在窗户下的（如更高的窗台）顶部的四分之一。一个朝南的窗户可以增加50%的自然光源。