'Green' Font Cuts Costs and Saves Trees

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  rlapin

  08/14/07 | Report as spam

  Saving Trees

  As someone who works with the pulp and paper industry, I realize that one of the first educational tasks we have is to remind people that trees are a renewable resource. As long as tree forestation efforts remain in force, and there is nothing to suggest that they won't, there should be a healthy supply of trees for a long time.

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  dan@...

  08/15/07 | Report as spam

  Paper and Pulp industry

  Yes, trees are renewable. But the paper and pulp industry are large polluters of both air and water.
  
  Firms that do the pulping- processing raw wood or chips into fibers that are then used to produce paper- are heavier polluters. Separating the fibers is energy intensive, requiring large power boilers that emit significant air pollution. Chemicals used to separate and bleach the fibers cause water pollution, esp. dioxin pollution.
  
  Pulp and paper mills are large sources of standard air pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxides, carbon monoxides and particulates. These contribute to ozone warnings, acid rain, and respiratory problems. Many of the mills are large enough to have their own coal-fired power plants, raising additional concerns about mercury, arsenic and radioactive emissions.
  
  ...but, the trees are renewable.

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  jim_moroney@...

  08/14/07 | Report as spam

  saving trees

  Anyone who is serious about saving trees and helping the environment should do the following:
  1. Destroy your fax machines. Faxing kills 17 million trees each year. Use scanners instead. You can scan a document into a pdf file and email it to its destination. It is also a more secure means of communication as nearly everyone gets to look at a fax before it is distributed.
  2. Use the scanner instead of the photocopier. Scanned documents can also be filed electronically, reducing the need for file cabinets and office real estate. Electronic storage is also more secure and can be backed up. Once paper files are destroyed by fire and flood, they are gone forever.
  3. Use email or file sharing techniques instead of the old snail mail. Sending documents via Fedex has to be a total waste. Delivery trucks clutter the roads and give off toxic emissions. Think of that next time you are stuck in traffic.
  4. Speaking of traffic, use telecommuting whenever possible to keep people off the road. Four day workweeks can also do the trick.
  5. Have web conferences instead of making people fly all over the world and spend their time waiting to get strip searched at airports.

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  hanktan

  08/15/07 | Report as spam

  Save paper thru Print Preview

  Maybe everyone already does this, but I always check "Print Preview" under FILE and check the last page to make sure it has content I want to print out, rather than just "credits" and ads. If I don't need it I command my printer to just print the sheets before it. A few sheets saved here and there, right?

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  Leeroy_Jenkins

  09/16/08 | Report as spam

  RE: 'Green' Font Cuts Costs and Saves Trees

  LOL at Dan's reply to rlapin! Boy, talk about setting yourself up for a fall. rlapin, I know you had the best of intentions there, but you came across as nothing but a corporate profiteer there. Dan, good job at pulling out the stats and showing the bigger picture.
  
  I work in the I department of a school district. I'm going to look at this and see if we can roll it out district wide.
  
  In the mean time, I print two pages per side and make them all double sided sheets. Thank God I have great vision.

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  roland_r

  10/10/08 | Report as spam

  RE: 'Green' Font Cuts Costs and Saves Trees

  Have a look at the FinePrint printer driver, it allows you to preview your output, set the number of document pages per paper page just before printing, handles potentially required corrections for double sided printing and even lets you delete unnecessary pages from the print preview. And in multi-page per paper page mode it reduces whitespace margins to reduce downscaling and improve readability. This means paper savings of up to 75% or even more.

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  asotelo@...

  10/23/08 | Report as spam

  RE: 'Green' Font Cuts Costs and Saves Trees

  I have an even GRATER Idea!!! Forget about cutting trees and making them pulp and paper... let's just all get out our chisels and rocks and chisel out any document that we need!
  Pros: 1:We will all think very carefully about what we are going to "print" (chisel) into the stone (remember the saying: carved in stone).
  2: We would have (almost) no need to go to the gym, since carring a 10 page document would do the trick.
  3: The documents will probably last forever, unless we send them out to be groud up (shreaded) to make mortar or fill for construction or stuff.
  Cons: We would need bigger and strnger filing cabinets.

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  midenginedrift

  10/31/08 | Report as spam

  RE: 'Green' Font Cuts Costs and Saves Trees

  " Cons: We would need bigger and strnger filing cabinets. "
  
  We could carve first carve the rocks in to TABLETS. Then we could just stack the tablets! And we could leave little bumps on the four corners, so that when stacked, we could take a glimpse at the content. We could also carve a label on the side.
  
  For storage, we could just put a little bit of oil between the rocks (to provide lubrication and prevent wear).