As a person smitten with the entrepreneurial bug, I always love to read Business 2.0 magazine when it comes in the mail. And it’s not that the magazine has ideas for me to start businesses, but it makes me think differently about trends and the future …it makes me come up with new business ideas. Business 2.0’s September Magazine contains an article about Adobe’s retrofitted USGBC-certified, LEED Platinum building.
Here are some of the eco-friendly renovations and the break even calculations:
(1) Waterless Urinals with Nontoxic chemicals:
Cost: $35,374
Annual Savings: $14,896
Breakeven: 2.4 years
Cost: $110,000
Annual Savings: $ 24,000
Breakeven: 4.6 years
Cost: $ 11,000
Annual Savings: $105,000
Breakeven: .11 years
Cost: $ 3,610
Annual Savings: $10,000
Breakeven: .36 years
Cost: $ 150
Annual Savings: $68,000
Breakeven: .002 years (immediately!!)
What’s more amazing is that Adobe has been able to foster the right business climate that allows employees to notice waste and make the right changes on a going forward basis. That’s where the real benefits will be realized…and further, employees buy into the benefits and go home making similar changes to their homes. Then they will tell their friends how they saved on their monthly utility bills because of some pragmatic, and economic, changes. Great article Business 2.0!
Good Links:
++Adobe's Announcement to Work with USGBC to Go LEED
++Press Release of Adobe's Receival of Platinum Certification
++Adobe's Environmental Committment
++GreenBiz Artice with CEO Comments
NOTE –
Business 2.0 just released the online article of this story and also included a slide show of pictures illustrating how Adobe is going green. I strongly recommend checking this out…
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384321/index.htm?section=money_topstories
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