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We spend at least 8 hours a day in our office, and in the process, consuming a large amount of resources. Project: Eco-Office has been developed to show you how you can do your bit for the environment from where you spend most of your day … in the office!
Going GREEN is not just about saving our planet so that we can always enjoy it, it is also about savings for your company. One of the first steps of going GREEN is to do a self-audit.


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Find out how you can help support the Singapore Environment Council's (SEC)work to protect and preserve our Environment.

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Leading the Way

The pioneer batch of Green Office Label recipients has been unveiled!

Congratulations to the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR), National Environment Agency (NEA), Ricoh Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd, and City Developments Limited.

Not only have these four outstanding Green Office corporate citizens passed the online self-audits and on-site audits with excellent results, their achievements prove what management and staff conviction and commitment can accomplish within a relatively short period of time.

Read more about them by clicking on the company name above.

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FREE Eco-Office Seminar on 24 November 2005. Register online by 22 November.

Discover the economic benefits of being eco-friendly. Join other eco-conscious companies at the "A Great Idea is a Green Idea" Eco-office Seminar:

VENUE: Orchard Hotel
TIME: 9am to 12pm
DATE: 24 November 2005.

Eco-Office auditor EnviroSolutions and Singapore Environment Council's Executive Director Howard Shaw will conduct talks. While pioneer Green Office Label certificate recipients Ricoh and National Environment Agency will share their green experiences with the audience. Don't miss it.

CDL Embarks on Recycling Programme for 15 Commercial Buildings

What is the Programme about?

A recycling programme initiated by City Developments Limited (CDL) in 15 CDL commercial buildings to encourage tenants to practise eco-friendly habits and cut down on office waste.

This programme is part of an integrated environment management system comprising the Eco-Home Programme for CDL Condominiums and Project Eco-Office, a joint initiative by CDL and Singapore Environment Council.

Click here to find out more...
NEA partners SEC in Project: Eco-Office

The National Environment Agency (NEA) announced their pleasure in partnering SEC in Project: Eco-Office. NEA believes that "Project: Eco-Office would provide a good platform to create greater awareness among the management of offices to integrate environmental concerns into office administration "… and "are particularly encouraged that the criteria for the rating system of Project: Eco-Office include energy conservation, waste minimisation and waste management".

Mr. Loh Ah Tuan
Director-General
Environmental Protection Division
National Environment Agency

Recycling Drive
6th-21st Nov

Congratulations to New Tech Park who collected the highest amount of recyclables (6,300 kg) during the 2-week long recycling drive. This recycling drive was associated with the 2003 Project: Eco-Office Road Show and brought to you by CDL, SEC and the official recycler SembEnviro Tay Paper. We thank CapitaLand, Suntec City and the Shaw Organisation for their kind support in our efforts to minimise waste.
Project: Eco-Office Roadshow 2003

Thank you to everyone who turned up for the road show and brought down your recyclables.

As promised, the road show turned out to be a fun-filled event with representatives from Institute of Public Relations of Singapore, Legal 21, Atmozi! Prudential, Jones Lang LaSalle, Bizlink, Kenneth Tan Partnership, Industrie and Publicis taking part in our Corporate Challenge. For their sportsmanship, they won for themselves fabulous prizes including Mitsubishi fridges and Canon office equipment.

Some lucky officer workers who came down with their recyclables not only received exclusive three-year eco-calendars cum playing cards, "Save Energy" reminders and mini recycling boxes, but Body Shop and Tupperware hampers.

For the Box Assemble game segment, the lucky winners received Mitsubishi fans and re-usable Tupperware lunch boxes.
Mr. Foamy features in Weekend Today & Lianhe Zhaobao

Never one to shy away from publicity, Mr. Foamy was featured in Weekend Today (8 November 2003) and Lianhe Zhaobao reaching out and driving his message of "Reduce" home.
Click here to download article.(1MB file)
Mr. Foamy adopted by the Asian Civilisations Museum

For those of you who missed seeing Mr. Foamy at Raffles Place during the road show, now's your chance to catch him at Empress Place from now until the 18th February 2004.
The Asian Civilisations Museum have adopted Mr. Foamy as the museum shares SEC's and CDL's concern for the environment in Asia and recognizes that the use disposable plastic dinning ware is an acute and particular issue that concerns Asian countries.