EchoStar Corp. has gone Hollywood. Last month, the Douglas County-based satellite provider gave out free Dish Network service to the stars as part of a charity event for the Jayneoni Moore Children’s Fund, which helps provide reading programs and books for children in low-income areas.
As part of the event, EchoStar set up the “Boom Boom Room,” which it hosted along with Showtime. Goodie bags included boxed sets of popular Showtime series and free Dish service for a limited time. The other suites set up at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, Calif., catered to children, but EchoStar and Showtime went with a “more adult” theme.
Stars who stopped by included Tori Spelling, Denise Richards, Angela Bassett, Bill Bellamy, Dean McDermott, and Jason Priestly. Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth of “The Apprentice” fame also stopped only to learn that Dish was all out of goodie bags.
EchoStar co-founder and chairman Charlie Ergen was not in the Boom Boom Room.
Memo to green wannabes
Many of us recycle at home and proclaim ourselves “green.” But the workplace waste keeps piling up.
Out of those who said they recycled in a recent survey, 62 percent recycled at home, but only 49 percent recycled at work.
While 87 percent of workers said it was at least somewhat important that their workplace be environmentally friendly, almost a third of those surveyed said they did not recycle at all.
“I’m not sure it’s a difference in the individual employees but rather in the priorities that the enterprise places on recycling,” said Mark Murray, executive director of advocacy group Californians Against Waste. “(Companies) where recycling is the complicated bin that you have to find somewhere on your floor — those are the places that recycling doesn’t do as well.”
To encourage employees to reduce waste, companies should upend the usual bin standards: Place a recycling container next to every desk and make the regular garbage can a communal receptacle, he said. Printers can also be set so that double-sided copies are the default option to cut down on waste.
Harris Interactive Inc. conducted the online study for staffing company Randstad USA during five days in January. The survey polled 2,079 employed U.S. adults.
Staff and wire reports
