in a number of them. But over the years, the company has made strides to make its offices not only entertaining, but environmentally friendly as well.
Knowing this, the company has come up with creative ways to cut down on things like food waste, car emissions, and even, how much honey it has to buy for its cafes.1. Google offers its employees a colorful fleet of bikes — known as Gbikes — to help them get around its Mountain View campus.The GBike program started in 2007 and today, has over 1,000 bikes in its fleet.
In 2018, Google says it used over one million pounds of imperfect produce — including carrots, tomatoes, peppers, bananas, and more.3. Twenty-five Google offices around the world use space on their campuses to grow their own food.The company says these gardens have produced tomatoes, squash, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, peas, oregano, sage, and much more.4. Mountain View employees are harvesting their own honey.
Google says its Bay Area shuttles result in more than 40,000 metric tons of CO2 saved per year, which is the equivalent of taking 8,760 cars off the road every day.Google has a 40-foot shipping container on its Mountain View campus fully equipped with a hydroponic growing system. The company says that by using LED lights and nutrient-rich water, it can grow produce — like lettuce — in the shipping container using less water and energy waste than traditional agriculture.7.