Green Is the New Green Blog Update on Energy Savings

Green Is the New Green

Here at Adobe, we're proud to win the Platinum Certification Award from the U.S. Green Building Council for our work in energy savings and greening up the company. We're also proud we were the first office building in the world that the Council awarded this distinction. What helps us keep on reducing, reusing, and recycling every day are the efforts of you, our employees, who are always the first to create new ideas and methods to save energy and make our company even more green. Our platinum status was based on "sustainability; water efficiency; energy efficiency and atmospheric quality; use of materials and resources; indoor environmental quality; and innovations in upgrades, operations and maintenance." Now, we want to take those elements to a higher level, with your help.

In the past, we have "reduced electricity use by 35%, natural gas use by 41%, domestic water use by 22%, and irrigation water use by 75%, and we recycle or compost up to 85% of our solid waste. With your help, we want to take this process even further. We want you to come up with new ways for us to save even more, through a program that will reward our staff members for their ideas on conserving energy, recycling, and reusing. If you see waste in your department, we'd like to hear your creative ideas on how to manage it. If you have an idea for other areas of the company, we want to hear your solutions. We're proud to be an innovator in green technology, and for our awards from the Council, but we feel there is even more we can do, even at remote locations far away from our award-winning San Jose facilities. Now is the time to be even more creative and innovative in looking for ways to save energy and recycle. It creates better, happier, and safer workplaces, it saves money, and it's the socially conscious thing to do. Adobe has been a leader in technology and innovation, and now's the time to continue that within our company.