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- (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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- Sustainable framing (Part 2)
It has been a while since I started my search for sustainable eco-friendly frames to frame some of the awards Digital Eskimo has been awarded. After a few well-intentioned conversations with people we still didn’t have a solution. Then I got in touch with Peter Cerneaz again. Peter: “For me this is something that […]
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