Door Creek Dental is proud to join other companies that support green power, investing in cleaner energy for our community through MGE’s Green Power Tomorrow program. And, together we do make a difference.

Collectively, we offset more than 76,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year. This helps our community:

• Reduce global climate change
• Reduce the environmental impacts of developing fossil fuel resources
• Reduce our dependence on scarce energy sources
• Reduce our dependence on foreign energy resources

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Other Door Creek Dental green practices include recycling office supplies, creating patient “welcome bags” from post-consumable products and stocking the employee kitchen with non-disposable dishes and silverware and filtered water instead of bottled.

We have programmable thermostats throughout the office and keep temps a bit lower than many offices. To minimize solar gain, windows are covered with light-filtering film and have adjustable blinds. To save water, the building has low-flow toilets and motion sensor faucets that only run when users wave their hands under them.

Good lighting is critical in the operatories, so we worked with MGE to ensure high-efficiency lighting delivered excellent light quality. Each room has multiple switches, linked to multi-bulb fixtures, to ensure optimum lighting flexibility. We also use motion sensors and timed external lights.

We are in the midst of completing our transition to a completely electronic office. This will save paper and keep plastic (from xray film processing) out of the landfill.

Whether it’s recycling, working to create a paperless office or carpooling to work, our team is completely dedicated. Everyone understands how important it is for each person to do their part, and the difference that every small change can make.