Becoming an environmentally friendly organization should be everyone's responsibility, including your firm's senior management. Real and permanent change must be fostered by an agency-wide commitment.

Agency leadership should direct efforts, but all employees can make a difference by suggesting new programs and offering to take ownership of certain activities. For example, any person can recommend that the firm create a "task force" to explore ways to be greener, and offer to lead the group.

You can develop a task force that ...