Hop 2 Green

When evaluating green projects, the vast majority of companies shouldn’t try to keep up with industry titans. Many deep-pocketed corporations have launched splashy environmental initiatives—such as using the power of waves to run their data centers—that grab lots of attention and potentially win new customers. But most small and midsize companies can’t afford to take a chance on these kinds of ambitious projects. Instead, they should focus on more modest and practical solutions that bring an immediate payoff. Start with your office equipment, save money while saving the environment.

“How green is your lunch?” said Edgar Blanco, a scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. “I’m a believer that we should have a notion of a budget of carbon we should use.”

What the scientists are finding often defies intuition.

Take what Blanco calls the “distance paradox,” best embodied in bottled water. Tap water is most earth-friendly, of course, but if you’re going to drink bottled water, those from Fiji and France sound like particular environmental villains. But the distance something is shipped often matters less than the inputs at the beginning of the process, which are virtually invisible to a consumer.

Blanco didn’t single out brands or examine the practices that individual companies use to make their products greener. Instead, he looked at the predominant energy source for bottling plants. In France, such plants use electricity generated mostly by nuclear energy, and in the Pacific Islands, geothermal is a common energy source; both are clean from a carbon dioxide standpoint. In the United States, by contrast, bottling plants are powered mostly by fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.

His conclusions were simple: The mix of power in the United States means that local bottled water has a much bigger carbon footprint than the stuff shipped thousands of miles.

That doesn’t mean you should run out and buy imported French water. Nobody suggests that greenhouse gas emissions alone should govern consumer decisions; after all, there are many other environmental considerations – such as the radioactive waste from nuclear plants – not to mention factors such as price and taste. But as carbon consciousness spreads, Blanco says such thinking will drive broader changes among consumers and companies

The best part is the Hop 2 Green iFax comes standard with Internet Fax. Internet enabled fax machines allow the user to convert scanned documents into file formats that are easily transported over the Internet or the company intranet. With the help of push scan technology, internet fax allows users to send data to E-mail address destinations, other I-fax-capable machines, network or host folders and files, and to document management systems. Internet Faxing bypasses the public switched telephone network and allows users to send scanned documents over the Internet as E-Mail attachments using the customer’s established data network infrastructure to carry information. It offers many advantages, such as, the simultaneous and instantaneous distribution of information, maintains document and image quality, increases productivity, and it is virtually free! The Hop 2 Green iFax also comes standard with Standalone Faxing, Local Printing, Network Printing, Network Faxing, Network Scanning, and Convenience Copying.

Beginning on January 1st, 2009 H2G becomes a corporate sponsor of the Arbor Day Foundation.

Operating at speeds of up to 22 pages per minute (letter), the Hop 2 Green 22 Copier  provides a complete suite of functionality for small businesses and workgroups.

Producing up to 1200 x 1200 dpi output at speeds of up to 22 pages per minute (letter), respectively, this powerful system delivers the benefits of digital copying, networking printing, and optional fax features. By utilizing the device’s Color Send technology, users can send their scanned color documents to various destinations, providing them with the ability to store/edit documents more smoothly. Plus, intelligent technologies and communications features can help save you time, space, and document production and distribution costs.

Everyone continues to try to save money in this economy and to make things last longer than they normally would or should.

In offices this includes using an older copy machine or printer. They too can be damaging to the environment we try so hard to protect. You should consider leasing or purchasing a green machine. As I’m sure you know we remanufacture machines to better than new condition without creating unnecessary waste. All of these machines are energy star compliant (which your older machines may not be) and are 90% post consumer.

These machines are approximately 50% off the MSRP and can save you money on your electric bill as well. Please don’t hestitate to contact us, our website is www.hop2green.com.

I try my best to go online and sift through all of the green articles for tips I think will be most useful for the business & home environment. I came across a blurb about how the USPS is cutting their costs, some of their answers are easy for everyone to incorporate into their lives.

1. Switch all network printers to double sided printing – you save a lot on paper, and cut down on waste.

2. Change default printer settings to black and white, this saves on toner/ink and obviously costs, and forces the user to make a conscious effort to print in color.

3. RECYCLE. Separate your paper, your plastics, and your metal. If you live in a state like NY, they charge bottle deposits for everything. Use them as an incentive to recycle, bring the bottles in and use the money you get back to throw a pizza party for the office (or home).

I was reading a magazine and came across an interesting article about how we could all reduce our impact on the environment. Now everyone knows how recycling helps, and composting is good, etc. But the part of the article that stunned me the most is how much waste there is involved with those pesky junk mailings we all get.  A days worth of junk mail could heat 250,000 homes.

They offer a website to stop receiving junk mail at your own home, which I’ll post, it’s one simple step we can all take to reduce our own impact on the environment.

mailstopper.tonic.com

Earth day has come and passed, but everyone can continue to do their part by updating their equipment and appliances to those that are energy star rated.

We at Hop2Green pride ourselves in our ability to offer you 90% post consumer & energy star rated office equipment. For more information on how we do this visit our website at www.hop2green.com

For every Hop2Green machine sold, we save 2500sqft of rain forest, or plant 10 trees in a US Forest devastated by a fire, the choice is yours. Let us help you help the environment!