The Green Office Pledge Breakdown - Intro

Last week we received an email about the Green Office Pledge. This pledge, designed by a group of Philadelphia organizations, is a challenge to local businesses to green up their act. Basically, the hope is that each business will fill out the online web form to “sign” the pledge and then attempt to abide by thirty different promises. Naturally, we liked the idea behind this and quickly added our name to the growing list of pledges. Now we are going to take it one step further.

This intro is the first in a thirty-one (yes I said 31) part blog series which will look closely at each promise in the Green Office Pledge. We will discuss the merits of each promise and the ways in which one might seek to abide by the pledge. We will also probably engage in tangental rants, witty digressions and bizarre, semi-related antics. Hopefully, in the end, we will have a plethora of possible ways in which each of our businesses can positively impact the environment, or at least impact it less negatively.

This series, due to its daunting scope, will be a collabrative effort between all of us at postgreen (Chad and Nic). We will work together to fashion an educational, entertaining expansion of the pledge’s concepts. Well, maybe that is promising a bit much. Let’s say we will attempt to at least slog through all thirty promises and come out with one or two good ideas amidst the inevitable wanderings of my prose and Chad’s eclectic green geekdom.

Hopefully the input of our wonderful readers will fill the gaps in our efforts. We are all counting on you.