WHY Survey: 52% of Work-at-Homers Have Eco Home Offices

As I sit here in my newly straightened-up work space, with a looming, still undecorated, green Christmas tree at my back, I am reminded about a poll that we conducted earlier this year in WHY magazine. We asked our readers how environmentally friendly or "green" their office was. The poll revealed that 52 percent of work-at-homers around the globe have semi- or mostly green home offices.

I thought the results were pretty encouraging. Forty-two percent of those polled said they’ve “taken some green steps” and 10 percent have a “mostly green” home office. Thirty-eight percent have a conventional home office but “hope to go green” in the future and 10 percent have a conventional office and “don’t have the interest in a green office.” No work-at-homers that were polled by WHY have a completely green home office.

Yes, I know... having a green Christmas tree has nothing to do with greening an office. I was thinking more about the newspapers and toner cartridges that were recycled. My office work space is far from being totally green, but I'm getting there -- although I still can't bring myself to unplug everything in the office every night as my green colleague Kristyn Lak Miller over at EcoVixen says I should. Something to work on...