Technology integrator Guidance offers toolkit to make the greening of your company a tad easier

Web technology integrator Guidance got the green religion from one of its clients (Bentley Prince Street) about a year ago. Since that time, it has explored and embraced all sorts of different ways to become carbon-neutral -- from creating alternate commute days to discourage driving to buying only the most energy-efficient servers it can find, attached to power strips that monitor every moment of use.

Now, it's sharing the knowledge of its mistakes and successes in a best-practices guide called How To Operate as an Environmentally Aware Organization and Reduce or Eliminate Your Carbon Footprint.

Jon Provisor, CTO of Guidance, said the toolkit covers all sorts of different topics such as how to reduce or cut out the use of energy, paper and plastics, how to run a recycling program, and ideas for offsetting carbon. The company has done things like installing motion detectors in the restroom to handle the lights and save electricity. His Guidance Green team also has developed a series of analysis tools and spreadsheets to monitor pretty much everything that could have an impact on the environment. Guidance figures that the sum of its green efforts has helped eliminate 219,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the environment each year.

More on the Guidance Green efforts can be found on the company's green blog.