This is the second installment of the Clean Lawyer series, and already we have started to see some interesting trends.  People around the legal community are eager to start instituting greener practices, some of them just don’t know how.  Hopefully this series can be somewhat of a voice for that crowd.  Most of the strategies or ideas that we talk about here are things that we have, or plan on implementing in our own offices.

To start, I wanted to go over some very simple, low cost things that you can do around your office (or home if that applies).  Though each of these things are very small, they will have a larger overall impact when many people start to employ them.  And I don’t care if you have heard it all before, because chances are you have yet to implement even the simplest of green initiatives.

First, start turning off everything that you are not using.  That goes for the lights in the offices where no one is working, the appliances that are on during the day that don’t need to stay on at night, and the computers you are using.  Computers do not need to run overnight, there is no reason for it.  Though many computers have energy saving settings on them, it is best to shut them off and reboot them when you come in the next day.

By turning off all the things that use electricity around your office, you will be saving energy and cutting costs.  Though the difference may be very small, it will add up over the long run.  And if every single lawyer in the US started to do this, that would be a whole lot of energy savings to go around. 

And it’s that easy to get started, so don’t take it for granted.  Real change is only a click/switch/push away.

Past Installments in this Series:
Part One – An Introduction to Going Green