The Green Truck @ Rubicon for Friday's activity!

We’re creatures of habit and unfortunately, sometimes those habits aren’t so good for the world around us. So we instituted Green Week, which is a platform for us to institute new “green” practices into our work week routine. Every day we held a simple activity that helped save the planet. We know every little bit helps so we’re trying to do our part.

Monday: Marwan updated our email signatures to remind everyone to conserve paper. At the bottom of all of our emails you will find

P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

What can we say? We love our trees.

Tuesday: We posted “Please remember to turn off the lights” signs above every light switch in the building. Our NYC office was similarly outfitted.

We’re also bringing in a lighting technician to control some of the lights in our LA office that stay on 24/7. We’re turning off our desk lamps when we’re not using them; now we just have to figure out those pesky main lights.

Wednesday: We set up all of our computer monitors to automatically go into sleep mode after 5 minutes of non-use.

Bill took the extra step to challenge everyone to find ways around leaving our computers on 24/7. If your reason to keep your computer on is to avoid the 15-minute boot-up time in the morning, he has the solution: he wrote a script that opens Windows and starts all his programs in 10 seconds flat. And don’t even try to use the excuse that you need to keep your programs continuously running to log the history. “Screen” is a terrific program for running programs on remote machines, allowing you to disconnect from your session and reconnect with no loss of state. Bill has more information on this if you need it.

Thursday: Our team pumped our bike tires, crammed into cars, and reloaded our Metropasses to go green on our way to work. Participants received reusable grocery bags–not to mention, we saved ourselves gas money and years off our lives (traffic can really get to you, sometimes).

Friday: We brought in the Green Truck for lunch, a favorite here at the Rubicon Project. Not only is the food delicious—we depleted their reserves of grilled cheese—but their mission is ambitious. All the trucks are powered on vegetable oil and bio-diesel, naturally and meals are made using local, organic, fresh produce and proteins. See http://www.greentruckonthego.com and try the sweet potato chips. Going green never tasted so good.