Small businesses can make a big impact

You always tend to think that big corporations has to keep up with environmental initiatives, and should do more to sustain environment than the small and medium sized enterprises. Well, in a way, that's correct, they are the ones, who should have the strictest compliance with regulations, and ambitious initiatives for environment, because their impact will simply be of a huge ordinance.

But... Think about this: 99% of all US companies are small business, says Jim Rise of Greener Computing. This makes more than 25 million small businesses, this time not individually but cumulatively having a huge impact on sustainability. The options to make-it-better are endless in their offices, from recycling paper and using "energy star" office equipment, to choosing OEMs that have end-of-use take back policies (for remanufacturing or recycling) for office equipment purchases.

This is a great article, read the full version "How Small-Office IT Can Make a Big Impact" here.