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Our small office, a satellite office of the National Geographic, is making changes in the paper we buy. While reducing paper use is priority number one, what paper we generate we want to be sure is recycled. This has meant discussions with the building management manager and the city's environmental agency.

Now is the time. Cities around the U.S. and businesses are engaged in some very exciting new thinking. Cities are competing to be the greenest and offering incentives to businesses that want to be greener. Businesses meanwhile are innovating at an unprecedented pace to change how their products are made, packaged, stored, shipped, used and disposed. They're looking at every aspect of their operation from the manufacturing plant to the supply room, from the cafeteria to the executive suites. Doing good and being good, most executives will tell you today, work hand in hand.

Americans are hardworking people, most putting in more than a third of each day at work, five days a week for dozens of years. Not all workplaces are conducive to high productivity, however, or good health. It may surprise some that serious indoor air pollution, "sick building syndrome," affects many offices, thanks to poor ventilation and toxins off-gassing from the rugs, cabinets and electronic equipment. A greener office is a cleaner, safer office designed with people in mind - one that's energy and water efficient, free of indoor air pollutants, flooded with natural light, a place that's easy to get to by public transportation or even on foot or bicycle. True Green @ Work can help you make your workplace a greener, healthier place to spend your days.

So take True Green @ Work with you when you head to work. Talk with your colleagues, put together a committee, conduct an audit of your workplace to determine the issues and the solutions. This book can be your guide. Its 100 steps are practical and manageable to implement; its authors, Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin, a True Green inspiration. To order a copy, visit the National Geographic Online Store.

Reprinted with permission from the book True Green @ Work by Kim McKay, Jenny Bonin and Tim Wallace. Copyright © 2008 True Green (Global) Pty Ltd

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