Stop Publishing State Magazine
All Department of State employees are required to have email accounts. The publication should be “Digital” only. Paper copies are delivered to our cubicles/offices religiously each month... more »
General Services Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
Daily, the Office of Regional Affairs Imports Offices within FDA print Notices of Action to Importers, etc. These Notices can be made to be only ONE page, not two in many more cases IF the Header margin on the first page were shortened by one or two lines. That would save so much paper, helping our pockets books, forests, and having a small but meaningful impact on our waste stream. Please consider this idea.
Provide IT departments tablet units, such as Cisco Cius, Apple IPAD, Samsung Galaxy or Blackberry Tablet units which may be used to load presentation and other meeting materials on to stop the use of handouts in meetings. Tablets with wireless capability not only eliminate the handout paper, but also the note taking papers which either clutter desks or fill recycling containers.
Multiple people in our office review multiple versions of draft NEPA documents. Instead of requesting paper copies, we normally request e-copies in Word format, store the documents in our shared directory, and all of us can comment using Tracked Changes which can be collated and sent back to the State DOT. This can be a HUGE paper saving practice.
General Services Administration
Allow Contracting Officers and Contract Specialist to use a digital signature (verified with a Pin number) to sign contracts. We print out so many sheet of paper to sign them. We could sign an award electronically and send it through to the next person with out printing any paper.Also this saves the time of printing it, signining it, scanning it back in to the computer and sending for obligation.
Instead of printing a performance plan for review, then another with changes for signature, then a copy with signatures, then a copy for annual review and so forth, provide online performance plans, with electronic password protected signatures which go right into eopf.
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Veterans Affairs
When printing copies of medical files from the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) the current program prints a cover page that contains PII that has no purpose for office use for every Progress Note printed. Since most Progress Notes are only one page long, deletion of this cover page from the program would typically result in a 50% reduction of the paper used.
Department of Homeland Security