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Archive > September, 2009 Vol. X, No. 9

Ideas That Work

Paperless Meetings

Bring Less Paper to Your Meetings
Here are a couple of easy ways for your facility to go green.
When we gather in the conference room, we display the minutes of our previous meeting with a laptop, projector and screen instead of printing out copies for everyone in the room. Before the meeting, we e-mail each participant the minutes for review, with a "Think Before You Print" emblem at the bottom.

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