This is a short guide explaining how you can change your printer settings on your PC so that you can print double sided at The Consortium — these instructions may also work on computers outside of The Consortium. The example uses Microsoft Word, although the menus should be approximately the same when printing from other programmes.
If you’re interested in saving some energy in the office or at home, but don’t have the time to go out of your way searching for ways to save energy, follow these five simple tips for reducing energy consumption without having to make a great deal of effort. And remember, think about energy consumption when conducting tasks because it’s not always obvious where energy is being wasted.
An email signature is an easy way to ‘market’ a simple message at the bottom of your emails. If you’d like to send an eco-friendly message in your emails why not consider adding something like this to your signature:
Q Please consider the environment before printing this email.*
Electronic documents are simply regular documents (like an invoice) that are sent via email rather than being printed and posted. If you order online you might find it alot more manageable and a lot less hassle to receive your invoices and statements by email rather than by post. There’s really no need to have your invoices and statements printed and posted to you, when you can have them delivered and stored instantly via the internet. Less paper storage equals less work and less clutter.
When you’re not using your PC it’s wasting energy if it’s left on. But sometimes you want to leave it on because you have a lot of work in progress and you want to save your screen just as it is, ready for when you get back. For example, you’re working on something and suddenly you remember you’ve got a meeting. You don’t want to or don’t have time to save everything, close everything and shut down your computer. Plus it’s a hassle having to start it back up and load everything as it was before.
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