Green Crusade

So, we Cybrosians are back again after a long dry spell..
No blog posts in 3 months!

Which company, a software provider at that, will fail to update its own blog, you might ask.. And our reply: only a busy one!

Now that we are breathing again, we knew it was time to reload our green crusade. We already have our Personal Manager software in place, and that helps us to cut down paper by tonnes, for sure.[If you have no clue on what we are talking about, go to http://www.cybrosys.com/personal_manager_software.aspx and download the free green software. That software alone can reduce your paper usage by a quarter]

But a single software alone will not suffice, except for quelling the guilt trips. So we thought long and thought hard of other ways we could adopt.

And that was when we came to the startling realization that even though there are tons we still have to do, there is a lot we have ALREADY DONE. Here is a list:

• We have just a single printer. A single printer for the entire office! And we never print anything unless it is ABSOLUTELY necessary. On an average, a Cybrosian prints just one sheet every two month
• We write and print on all sides of paper. There are some green enthusiasts among us who fold the paper as many times as they can and then write on every single side. Guess how we found out that no paper can be folded more than 7 times?
• When we ‘jot down’ something or doodle while talking, we do it on the system. Never on paper. We have a stack of paper for anybody who needs it right in the office storage, but to get it, we have to get up from our cubicle and walk towards it, and who bothers for all that really?
  NOTE: We are trying to encourage green-ness and NOT laziness here!
  
• We use every tiny space on every tiny bit of paper we use before discarding it. If Ramanujan can write in red ink over paper strewn with blue ink and still be a great mathematician, we can certainly check out our codes and ideas on blank spaces in paper!
• We do not use paper napkins in our office. Neither do we use paper décor for celebrations. We use stuff that we can re-use every single year to decorate. As for napkins, cloth hankies, FTW!

Ha!! Way to go, Cybrosians!! Pat, pat, pat in the back!!


Our advice: you cannot go completely without paper unless you burn the office down! But there are still heaps you could do to NOT use it so much.

There are some of you (not you, other evil people!) who do not care all that much for our earth and never was a Captain Planet fan, but hey! Bet they would not want THIS:

Get our point, non-green-believers??
Save trees AND get organized!
Cheers!!