Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This ...
Do you know anyone who prints nearly every Email they receive? Do you print them? Have you ever thought about how wasteful that is? Do you cringe when paying $35 for an ink cartridge?
A few suggestions:
- Keep a "used" paper box under your desk for all those useless memos and messed up letters that only have print on one side. Take them home or use them again at the office if you must print Emails.
- Save or export your Email as a .txt file or Word doc so it's always there if you need it. Most Email programs allow this, but print to file works no matter what you have. Honestly, you don't need that much hard copy CYA (cover your a$$) material!
- If you're going to send a letter or report, scan the original and keep your copy electronically instead of on paper.
- Explore electronic signatures
- If you have trouble reading the small print: try adjusting your monitor's resolution, or hold the "Ctrl" button while rolling your mouse scroll wheel - it zooms.
- Add this statement to your Email signature: Please consider the environment before printing this email
- But, for heaven's sake, stop printing every Email!
10 comments:
Hi !
I am a referring advisor for ICT of a "craft-industry chamber" in France. Your... crafty (!) post gave me some inspiration for an article in... French !!
Revue Métiers de la Chambre de Métiers et de l'Artisanat de Vienne (Isère-France)
So I had to thank you a lot !
In the same way, I strongly recommended to our staff to insert logo and expression in their own e-mail signature.
That makes : "Par respect pour l'environnement, merci de n'imprimer ce courriel qu'en cas d'absolue nécessité."
Kindly yours
Bertrand
Adding this message to the end of an email is pointless and annoying to many recipients.
Its unlikely to make any difference to them printing and probably pushes the printout onto another page. It also is telling the recipient something they know already.
It would be more efficient to use plain text in the email and not put any footer on the email at all. This saves space, network capacity and if printed ensures that no excess paper is consumed in the process.
To the arrogan ahole above me. Go fuck yoruself.
I agree with the ahole above....
So why don't you fuck yourself aswell....fuck wit.
People who add those "environmental" ps's... are tehy really concerned about the environment? SO often that darn PS requires a whole extra sheet of paper! And who prints anymore, really! If they are concerned about the environment, do they consider how much fuel it takes to constantly spin all the hard-drives that store all their saved data? They probably add so many cc's to their own emails, then load all those cc's up with a few megabites of attachments and thus require tons more coal to be burned to keep all their data spinning for generations. Ha, "please consider the envirnment yourself."
For many corporations I think the signature is an environmental compliance box ticker. - Corporate responsibility.
In England there is a British ISO standard for this and a lot of consultants advise adding the signature line.
I don't know how it started or where, but there is a campaign site at http://thinkbeforeprinting.org with a free how-to guide and more informaiton.
- Don't suck your thumb!
- I don't...
- Just a piece of advise.
I can't stand the annoying arrogance of those who add that stupid little note. How about you just conduct your business and not try to tell others what to do? A part of me wants to click off a few extra copies for spite, and while I don't actually get petty enough to do that, I'm sure there are many others annoyed enough to. Do you really think this does anything? Most people will only print when they really need a hardcopy anyway. For the 12 people on the planet who might print one less sheet after reading this, I don't think there is any benefit. Perhaps I'll add footers like "stop smoking" "use your seatbelt" "vote for candidate so-and-so", or any number of ways to tell you how to live your own life. How about "stop hugging trees and hug a person - you'll learn a lot about courtesy and interpersonal relations".
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"Please Consider the Environment Before Printing" relies on the premises that there is a shortage of trees and that using paper robs the environment of trees. Both of these are fallacies. There are more trees now than ever. Increased demand for paper means that the lumber industry will plant even more trees to meet demand just like farmers are planting more corn to meet demand for ethanol.
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