Welcome to the first edition of the PHD SUSTAIN weekly update!

Our promise to you, our readers, is a regular, easily digestible (read: short!) summary of the progress being made in the “greening” of our workplace and further in our work with the development of PHD’s proprietary Environmental Media Sustainability Index and green media planning tool.

While we may never fully please the Treehugger-faithful with every step we take, our commitment is simply to do the best we can as a team at PHD to create a “greener” footprint. We promise never to be preachy and instead celebrate each and every green change any of us make in our lives at work and beyond.

The PHD Sustain Team is all of us who work at PHD. Our ultimate success in becoming more sustainable depends on you!

Recent Developments:

• Look out for NEW COFFEE AND TEA MACHINE later this week!Organic and Fair Trade

• -Multiple strengths and flavors
• -More efficient clean-up
• -Not plastic-free yet but best available and supplier working on improvements

• FILTERED WATER STATIONS to debut in both kitchens this week!

• -Use glass pitchers and glasses for water for meetings, to be found in cabinets above sink in either kitchen
• -Each employee to receive personal, re-usable water bottle (SIGG brand or similar) within the next month in an effort to get rid of all plastic water bottles at PHD

• PHD received electrical inspection from National Energy Services (NES) on March 4th already in great environmental shape with energy efficient lights and lighting levels; no immediate steps needed.

• PHD offices seeking highly regarded International Standards Organization (ISO) 14001 registration and working with Euro Quest International to achieve this. Consultant Gene Sammsel to evaluate PHD offices on April 17-18 to lay out further plan of action.

Did You Know?

• Though we currently need to log off but not shut down on our computers when we go home at night so that IT can do network updates overnight, everyone can save energy by clicking off their monitors when heading out the door.

• -Repeat after me: LOG OFF, MONITOR OFF LOG OFF, MONITOR OFF LOG OFF, MONITOR OFF

• The revolving door is not just a device to make us feel like gerbils on an exercise wheel. It saves heat and AC compared to doors that open directly to the outside. When entering and exiting a building with a revolving door option…use it and feel good about yourself!

• CUMULUS has moved! No…nothing green about that…just thought you should know. It has been re-located to John Swift’s old office right next to Strategic Planning’s home base.

This weekly update will be posted on the PHD blog for future reference as well (http://perspectives.phdus.com).

Please do share thoughts, comments, and suggestions on this weekly update or anything related to the “greening” of PHD. They will be read and duly considered…no auto delete or anything…we swear! From next week, PHD Sustain should have its own e-mail address. In the interim, send a note to Michael De Lucia, Mary Florcruz, or Thomas Kiedrowski. Failing that, just accost us in the hall.

Thanks for all your enthusiasm and cooperation!

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