This is the archive for Greening the Igloo.

• Nett magazine showcases Digital Eskimo

  This months, Nett magazine includes an article on Digital Eskimo’s day to day operations as a (hopefully inspiring!) example of how to run a green business. We’ve been dreaming up and implementing a unique set of approaches for years now so as you can imagine we had a bit to say.
  The article mentions an […]

  Posted on Mar 31.08 to Snow Flakes, Greening the Igloo   

• (not) Wasted

  The results from Digital Eskimo’s first (personal) waste audit were quite encouraging.
  Digital Eskimo’s staff were to keep all the waste they generated in a week inside a bag on their desktop (except compostable waste). We compared the contents of everyone’s bags at the end of the week and made some interesting findings, the most […]

  Posted on Oct 22.07 to Snow Flakes, Sustainability, Greening the Igloo   

• Greener computing

  As a company, possibly the largest component of our carbon footprint is in energy use. Even though we don’t have air-conditioning, the computers we use consume energy.
  We’ve been running GreenPower long before it was fashionable to reduce this footprint. In keeping with the “Reduce, Renew, Offset” philosophy, we also use energy efficient computers wherever […]

  Posted on Oct 20.07 to Sustainability, Greening the Igloo   

• Our new printer

  We recently upgraded our old colour printer and purchased at new Xerox Phaser 8560 multifunction printer for our studio.
  We seek to use every opportunity we can to reduce our impact on the environment and the first step to doing so when it comes to printing is to simply print less.
  But given we cannot reduce our […]

  Posted on Sep 17.07 to Snow Flakes, Sustainability, Greening the Igloo   

• Take your waste with ya… (part 2)

  Last week we mentioned we were taking our rubbish home with us. We decided half-way through the week that it would be far more enlightening for us to actually keep it (on or under our desks) and audit it at the end of the week.
  Unfortunately the Eskimos are a reliable bunch, and many had […]

  Posted on Sep 10.07 to Sustainability, Greening the Igloo   

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