Valentines Day: 50 Shades of Green in Your Plant

Shower the people you love with love–your descendants, neighbors, and fellow Earthlings, as well as your planet by manufacturing eco-responsibly in 50 shades of green:

1. Brighten your plant naturally with daylighting devices.
2. High-efficiency lighting keeps going hour after hour.
3. Pair efficient lighting with NEMA and RoHS-compliant ballasts.
4. Don’t be a villain. Be chillin’ with energy-efficient chillers.
5. NEMA Premium® efficient motors keep your operations humming at peak performance.
6. Enhance drives with variable frequency.
7. Serenade your pumps with energy-efficient components.
8. ENERGY STAR®-rated products have star power.
9. Sensual sensors know when to turn power on and off.
10. Recognize what you have going with sub-metering
11. Hug your heat with recovery systems.
12. High-efficiency insulation is very captivating.
13. Make a clean exit. Use LED or photo luminescent exit signs.
14. Use non-toxic Green Seal™-EcoLogo-, GreenGuard-certified cleaning chemicals to cleanse every breath they take.
15. High-efficiency air filtration systems are a breath of fresh air.
16. VOC-free paint is so liberating.
17. So are eco-friendly low-VOC caulks and sealants.
18. Use synthetic or biobased lubricants certified by the USDA BioPreferred program.
19. Lighten the load (and the mood) with concentrated cleaners, chemicals.
20. Be spontaneous. Try ultrasonic cleaning systems.
21. Protect indoor air quality with nontoxic gas emissions.
22. Paper products with recycled content are just as good the second time around.
23. Keep in-sight recycling containers within reach for all employees.
24. Be sentimental. Reclaim structural elements in your expansion projects.
25. Reinvigorate, recharge batteries to keep toxins out of landfills.
26. Recycle spent fluorescent lamps, ballasts, and batteries for the same reason.
27. Resolve to purchase supplies with recycled content, renewable sources from this day forward.
28. Give packaging materials new life. Reuse, recycle them.
29. Give food waste a tasteful ending. Compost it.
30. Energize organic waste. Use energy-from-waste systems.
31. Strip bathrooms from waste with coreless tissue rolls.
32. Go native; use unbleached tissue.
33. Be a hero. Rescue water from being tainted. Use non-toxic dyes, adhesives.
34. Embrace water conservation with recycling filtration systems.
35. Make a graceful recovery with water backflow systems.
36. Prevent the painless loss of water leaks in systems. Repair them.
37. Go with the flow. Use low-flow faucets, aerators to reduce water flow rates.
38. Say it with your eyes. Touchless flush valves, waterless or low-flow urinals, conserve water.
39. Install high-efficiency toilets to save water.
40. Timing is everything. Use sprinkler timers, sensors to prevent water waste.
41. Create subtle ambience with drip irrigation systems.
42. Raindrops falling on your head? Capture, redistribute them with rainwater harvesting.
43. Be driven to use ecofriendly freight.
44. Fuel diesel trucks with natural biodiesel.
45. Show your leaky air compressors some love. Tighten them to save energy. Or replace them. There are plenty of fish in the sea.
46. Low-, no-emissions lift trucks, plant vehicles are very moving.
47. Eco-responsibly source at first sight.
48. Power is sexy; power your plant with clean, renewable energy.
49. Soak up the sun with a solar photovoltaic array.

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