Throughout the month of March our Vancouver landlord, Bentall Kennedy, and their Forever Green Tenant Team are undertaking a waste reduction and recycling initiative. As a component of this initiative, they wish to encourage tenants to use travel mugs or reusable mugs for their beverages, as opposed to disposable cups. This particular campaign runs for just one week from March 7 – 11, 2011. Each Read More »

Starbucks and Tim Horton’s have reusable ‘commuter mugs’ available for their hot drinks and even offer a small discount to customers who use these mugs. In 2003 alone, Starbucks customers used commuter mugs 13.5 million times, keeping an estimated 266.2 tonnes of paper from landfills. Based on random checks of garbage bins on the fifth floor of Read More »

  o-vert excitedly presented the first annual Sustainable Gingerbread House Challenge in our Vancouver office in December 2010! We had an opportunity to rethink the gingerbread house in a form more fitting for our modern, sustainable world while having fun and celebrating the festive season. With five teams competing, the challenge ran in Omicron’s Vancouver office from December 6 to 17 culminating in o-vert’s year end Read More »

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On March 31, 2008 o·vert sent out an email letting the office know that all of the printers were set to default print double-sided.  This was part of our initiative to save paper (we also started purchasing 100% post-consumer recycled paper for the office). Employees could still print single-sided, they would just have to change Read More »