Marketing & Advertising

This is encouraging, to hear that big retailers (and wooden furniture manufacturers) like Crate & Barrel are going so far with their sustainable business practices. Gives me hope for the future. I'm looking forward to hearing more about C&B;'s green initiatives.

Skylights are helpful for natural light but I have found them to suck out heat! At least that's the case where I live. I believe they have a device you can install on your TV to shut it off after a certain time. Might that help instill a good practice?

Those are great Sergio, I am guilty of hitting print too soon myself. I will definitely keep that tip in mind. And Kim, I can only imagine what kind of paper must be in that industry - Forms forms and more forms. But I'm glad to hear it's making a move toward paperless.

In a very few years, many of today's lighting applications will be converted to using LED's as the light source. They are already here for many applications, and the others will follow soon. Our company regularly uses LED lights for refrigerated display case illumination, such as you find in the grocery freezer cases or the open dairy and produce cases. LED's cut the energy use in half, or more, and greatly reduce the amount of heat from the light that is dumped into the refrigerated case. More ambient lighting situations, such as the replacement of overhead fluorescent lights, are not quite there yet. However, the LED industry is making advances on a rapid basis, and before much longer these application will become common as well. The sooner the business community understands how these lights can reduce their electricity bill, the sooner more users will accept the higher initial costs. Until we all start doing a better job of getting that message across, the business community will not understand the great value of this investment.

Having been asked to create a Peer to Peer Mentoring program at work, how might I go about that?