Saving The Planet, Week 4 – Spreading the Word

Despite Al Gore's best efforts, awareness of environmental issues is still too low and even among young adults it is not their biggest concern. In a recent Business Week article, the environment ranked 7th among issues that concern Gen Y'ers. If it isn't that big an issue to this generation, God help us. The other day I noticed a simple way to get the word out - email. More to the point every email I send. And let me tell you I send a lot of them. I probably send 300-400 a week at work. Some people still print out their emails. I have no idea why anyone would want to print any of my emails but in theory, if everyone of my emails was printed out, it could be a 500 sheet pack in a week and half. Over a year, that's a lot of trees. One of my colleagues, added this simple little tag to her email. I copied it and added to my signature, now everyone of my emails has a gentle reminder to save a tree. Many would say that this is probably the most valuable message in my emails. Here is another one that points to Treehugger, the environmental site Saving the Planet One Week At A Time - the Story So Far Week 4 - Adding an environmental reminder in your email signature Week 3 - Buying back the CO2 generated by my air travel Week 2 - Switching to environmentally friendly light bulbs Week 1 - Switching to recyclable toilet paper and paper towels