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September 2,2008

Donate Your Used Office Furniture

Periodically I'll see articles like this one last month. The Indiana Healthcare Association donated 85 pieces of office furniture to help out a local municipal office that had lost everything in the flood. Not only is that just a great thing to do ...to help others in need... but it's rather 'green' as well. That furniture won't end up sitting in a landfill somewhere.

It's not too difficult to find someone in need of office furniture (or other furniture for that matter)...Nature pretty much takes care of that for us with the various natural disasters. But if you have furniture to spare and you're not sure what to do, call your local Salvation Army office. I'm sure they'll have some ideas.

I'll continue to post stories like this as I see them. They are typically such feel-good stories and we need that now and then.
Posted by Cindy

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April 22,2008

Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day (I think)! Earth Day typically evokes thoughts of green grass, flowers and blue skies. It’s pretty gray out my office window right now, so it’s not feeling much like Earth Day to me.

Nevertheless, I have certainly found myself thinking about things a bit differently lately, a bit more earth-friendly. For example, this weekend we reorganized our home office and two things occurred: First, I found myself with a couple spare pieces of office furniture. Instead of putting them in the trash (or letting them collect dust in my basement), I’m going to ‘freecycle’ them. Have you been to the freecycle.org site? What a great way to reuse items and keep them out of landfills!

Second, I needed to order some hanging file folders, so I went online and ordered 100% recycled folders. I think they might have been a dollar more per box, but I thought it was the right thing to do. Not that I can make a claim that all my shopping is earth-friendly...for example I had to forego the recycled copy paper this time because I wanted the brightness and I wasn't sure I would get that otherwise. I'll have to evolve a little bit more, I guess.

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