In addition to these tips on going green in the workplace and ways to reduce paper waste, below are a few resources to help you develop more eco-friendly habits.
- Green Guide for Lawyers - a roadmap to help attorneys become more environmentally conscious.
- Environmental Protection Agency - guidelines and tips for conserving resources, reducing waste and committing to reduce, reuse, and recycle at home, in your community, and at the office.
- ABA-EPA Law Office Climate Challenge Waste Wise - offers a structured methodology and useful tools and resources - including technical assistance from WasteWise program specialists - that can give law offices practical tips to implement best practices and calculate the effects.
- Green Power Partnership - The EPA's Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that supports the organizational procurement of green power by offering expert advice, technical support, tools and resources. Partnering with EPA can help your organization lower the transaction costs of buying green power, reduce its carbon footprint, and communicate its leadership to key stakeholders. Green power is electricity produced from a subset of renewable resources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and low-impact hydro. Buying green power is one of the easiest and most effective ways to improve your organization’s environmental performance.
- Energy Star - Energy Star is a government-backed program helping businesses and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency.
- Global Green Energy Consortium (GGEC) - GGEC is a non-profit organization founded to dynamically and continuously improve the ability of businesses, building owners, management and industry to increase their positive impact on our shared environment through the reduction of energy, water, materials and other resources while creating positive business results.
- U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) - Non-profit organization dedicated to sustainable building design and construction. Developers of the LEED building rating system.
