The Gosselin Group, Inc.

The Gosselin Group, Inc. is a woman-owned civil engineering and surveying consulting firm located in SE Grand Rapids, Michigan. The firm undertakes civil engineering and surveying services for both public and private sector clients.

Friday, January 05, 2007

Go Green By Consuming Less

I read something very interesting in the last issue of a great magazine called Fast Company (http://www.FastCompany.com). The article was called something like "Feeding the Beast" and the point of the article was that the only way to really cut energy use is to quit consuming so darn much. As an example, they mentioned fast food places touting that they had switched from stryofoam boxes to recycled cardboard boxes. While an improvement in some respects, the real key is that we all consume gas to get to fast food places and cause energy to be used to recycle those boxes etc.

We are a consumer driven economy here in the US but we can all make a conscious effort to try to consume less. As an example, here at the Gosselin Group office, we are putting together a formal strategy to minimize paper use by utilizing e-fax, deciding if a paper really needs to be printed (or simply read and kept in an electronic folder), etc. Go green!

1 Comments:

Anonymous Shoshana said...

Go green by going organic. It takes about 1/3 of a lb. of pesticides and fertilizers to produce enough cotton for one T shirt. We can all help the world and ourselves by buying organic as much as possible. Go Green!

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