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So impressive (and OT)

Friday, November 30, 2007 — posted by Sarah

Some days you get email that puts things in perspective. I have a cousin (actually, I have a LOT of cousins, but this is about one of them) who is in the Peace Corps. She is going to be teaching in Tanzania for the next two years.

She recently sent out an announcement about her assignment, which included this information:

The school is in the town of ______ in the region of _______. It's in the very center of Tanzania. I shall have electricity and water close by. [...] The internet will not be too far away. There are rumors that it might even be at my school.

Something to think about when I complain about dead spots in my wireless coverage. She will have electricity and water "close by."

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It's not easy being green

Monday, April 23, 2007 — posted by Sarah

Over the years, we've been quite smug about Scriptorium's eco-friendly credentials. We don't have any nasty, dirty factories, we mostly provide services, and all in all, we're pretty clean.

On the surface.

It turns out, of course, that there are two major holes in our green company argument:

• energy
• air travel

On the energy front, we use power to heat and cool our office and to run our (many) computers. When we travel to visit customers, we usually fly, and airplanes emit huge amounts of pollutants.

In honor of our 10th anniversary, and for Earth Day 2007, we are announcing several new initiates to help reduce our environmental footprint:

• Recycling: We already recycle most of what we use in the office: paper, computers, aluminum, and plastic. We are also going to make a significant effort to use more recycled paper when we print, both in the office and with our print vendors.
• Air travel: Through carbonfund.org, we are purchasing carbon offsets to "zero out" the carbon emissions from our collective air travel. We are also offering our customers the option of live, instructor-led web-based classes, which eliminates travel requirements for client and customer alike.
  
• Energy: We have joined the North Carolina GreenPower program, which allows us to purchase energy from renewable sources.

You can find a list of carbon offsetting programs in several countries here. There's an excellent overview of the concept at grist.org and carbonoffsets.org.

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