Retailer Office Depot (NYSE:ODP) announced it has reduced CO2 emissions company-wide by 10.1%.
Between 2005 and 2006, the company reduced electricity consumption by about 65 million kilowatt hours and natural gas by 50,000 mmBTU, even as its business grew by 1.7 million square feet.
“Office Depot’s environmental strategy is structured around a vision to increasingly buy green, be green and sell green,” says Yalmaz Siddiqui, Environmental Strategy Advisor for Office Depot.
Here’s how they did it:
– retrofitted the Company’s North American retail store chain with T5 energy-efficient lights;
– Installed high-efficiency heating, ventilation and air conditioning units;
– Added light-sensors in stores to automatically turn off lighting when bathrooms and break rooms are not occupied; and
– Rolled out an Energy Management System upgrade to most stores, allowing for: Tracking energy use and trends from a central location; Setting temperatures for all stores; Identifying energy use anomalies (e.g. lights left on overnight, malfunctioning AC units, doors left open); and Central notification when anomalies occur, which allows management to fix any issues remotely or notify store managers immediately.
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