In a volunteer mailing group, a small ripple will create a big wave of mails and an ultimate splash. One definite rocker is 'switch off lights' and 'save tissue papers'. What creative suggestions come out of these simple topics .. people get very unconventional and emotional about their ideas.
Recently such mail thread started with simple suggestions like:
Put some posters about power saving.
Encourage taking stairs as opposed to elevators.
Turn off lights in huddle rooms/conference rooms.
An engineer's response:
We are the engineers, we need to think of some innovative power saving
measures !/What if there is sensing device at the entry of pantry as in one enters,
lights ON... and //as soon as one exists, lights OFF !! ( depending on the total number of
heads entered MINUS//total number of heads exited ) = 0 Implementation of this would cost intial
investment but would//save lots of power & power bills later.../
Someone started cribbing :
I do not see this poster idea is working, there are
posters just near the tissue paper in the toilets but people still use the
tissue paper. To my surprise even people stand and read this poster and use the
tissue paper as if the content is in French.
If we dont want people to use tissue, dont keep there! simple.
Followup ideas ...
On a related note, the quality of the tissue paper can be
improved.
Can someone tell this environmentalist that quality paper => cutting more trees
There were other suggestions like volunteers calling employees and advising them on tissue usage. People were going further to trace the origin of tissue, wondered if great grandfather and beyond used tissues etc.
What idle brain can do!
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