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.

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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.

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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:

P Please consider the environment before printing this email.*

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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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Here at The Consortium we reduced our electricity usage from 2006 to 2007 by 10%, while our business output remained on the increase. How did we do this? (more…)