Living Me to We. Craig Kielburger
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Название: Living Me to We
Автор: Craig Kielburger
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Дом и Семья: прочее
isbn: 9780978437558
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THE NEW WORLD OF WORKGive your time management skills a work out in your home office.Make your house workspace distraction-free, clear of cell phones, pets and kids.Prepare lunches the night before, the same way you would going into the office, so you don’t waste time prepping meals.Create time to meet informally with colleagues and build strong work relationships.When in the office, make the most of your presence by touching base with all team members.With an intense deadline looming, put a work-from-home arrangement on hold and assist your team.
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Before You Go Go
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THE WORK-FROM-HOME BALANCE
prosA worldwide survey found that 80% of teleworkers were as or more productive than their office counterparts.33% of Canadians would take a work-from-home arrangement over a raise!Telework can be an option for those on maternity leave, a differently abled employee or one forced to relocate.
consWorking from home can increase feelings of isolation, while face-to-face interactions strengthen team member bonds.Studies show that non-teleworkers can feel a diminished sense of camaraderie with their telecommuting co-workers.
DID YOU KNOW...?
IF ONE MILLION CANADIANS WORKED FROM HOME JUST ONE DAY A YEAR, WE WOULD SAVE 250 MILLION KILOGRAMS OF CO2 EMISSIONS AND 100 MILLION LITRES OF FUEL.
GO TO PAGE 156 FOR MORE TIPS AND INFORMATION
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GET TO KNOW
THE TELECOMMUTING WRITER
Margaret Atwood
The novels of Canada’s most famous literary talent often paint a dire portrait of the planet years in the future and maimed beyond recognition. Margaret Atwood doesn’t have it in for the environment. Her “speculative fiction” genre novels come out of a love for the environment and serve as a warning to change our ways. By reducing her own travels, carbon-offsetting when she can and using telecommuting tools, Margaret lives that lesson daily.
THE MOMENT: “He [my father] was a forest entomologist. They were avid gardeners all their lives, they had a city garden and a country garden. They grew a lot of vegetables. I remember in the Depression and the war, a lot of people grew a lot of vegetables.”THE MISSION: “I carbon offset. But there are mixed views about that. But again, the travel is actually quite small. If you carbon offset and also do extra insulation on your house, you’re probably a bit ahead of the game.”THE HABIT: “If you take a small child, and I mean under two, out into nature, you will see instant interaction. They’re much less bored when they’re outside. And plastic gizmos are really no substitute unless you bring a child up entirely surrounded by plastic gizmos and they don’t have any chance to turn on their epigenetic biophila switch. Just as if you bring a child up completely isolated from language, they won’t be able to talk because it goes by developmental stages. So the biophilia switch is turned on early in life, or it’s not. Maybe you have a mommy who says, ‘Eww, dirty. Don’t touch that. Come inside it’s safer there.’ Maybe you have that, and get really scared of being outside. But that’s not a natural thing for people. It’s much more natural for them to be comfortable outside.”
MIDDLE: GRAEME GIBSON, BOTTOM: GRAEME GIBSON, NEXT PAGE: GEORGE WHITESIDE
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“People talk about the environment as if it’s something separate from them. But actually, you are a part of the environment.”
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Loving Alt Transportation
Think Outside the Car
THIS IS THE STORY OF A MODERN MAN and his car-sharing membership. George Dizvolitsis lives in a condo with his wife. Both work downtown, take public transit, and walk during the summer. But their epic journeys to visit family in the suburbs or trek to get groceries were wearing them down. They tried to be as completely car-free as possible and yet they still couldn’t pull it off. They struggled with a solution and then discovered a car-share program in the parking lot of their building and signed up.Before we met George we expected a sandal-wearing, granola-eating renegade. Instead, he was the perfect picture of an everyday dude, gym bag over one shoulder and a baseball cap on his head. The green benefits were nice, he explained, but the real motivation was dollars and sense. They saved $300 to $400 a month on fuel, parking and insurance. Plus, the share-cars were always available and easy to take out. We had an epiphany on the parking spot: had the green movement got the guilt pitch wrong all these decades? Give people cost-effective and convenient alternatives to driving a car and they will take them.In George’s case, the decision to car-share came down to money and convenience. But surely there are other reasons to ditch the drive? If not rising gas prices and obesity rates, why not love of the environment? Driving is one of the single biggest polluting acts a person can make. Yet, three quarters of us guiltily admit to getting behind the wheel – even when we could easily use another form of transportation. We get it, the True North, Strong and Free, with its inclement weather and massive size, feels like it was built for a car. But maybe we can start by cutting back on our car usage? At Free The Children and Me to We, we have many hybrids; for others, car СКАЧАТЬ