Is your office a lean, green sustainability machine? Then crow about it and get certified as a green-, silver-, gold- or platinum-level sustainable workplace through the SFU Sustainability Ambassadors’ new Green Office pilot program.

Modeled after a similar program at Harvard, participating offices receive a certificate celebrating their certification level and are acknowledged on the SFU Sustainability website and in other publications for their greenness.

Participating is as easy as submitting a green-office checklist with 75 per cent of your office colleagues’ signatures (including the director/manager) affirming that they are reducing office resource use by taking the steps required for a particular level of certification.

The Dean’s office in the Faculty of Environment has already reached the silver level for initiatives such as installing motion sensors for lights, replacing incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, and reducing desktop printers. The department of biomedical physiology and kinesiology, the Burnaby campus library’s reference division, and human resources, have attained the green level.

For more info and to download the Green Leaf application form and checklist: http://at.sfu.ca/vSLGfP