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How to be a Better Paper User

Eight ways to be more environmentally friendly with your paper use.
4. Print Double-Sided
Computer paper has two sides; how many are you printing on? If you have a laser printer at home, you can change the setting to double-sided printing and copying. Otherwise, consider printing documents one page at a time and printing the second page [...]

September 26th, 2008
Topic: Environment Tags: , , , ,

Internet Saves Millions of Tons of Carbon

The internet is quite kind for the environment, which I guess is why good news appears on this website and not on paper handed out on city streets. Ecogeek has a post about a published report on how much carbon is saved by using the internet.
E-Commerce will reduce emissions by 200 M tons
-Telecommuting will prevent [...]

December 6th, 2007
Topic: Environment, Technology Tags: , , ,

Save Paper Towels by Using a Sticker

This simple sticker can make people aware that the toilet paper and paper towels come from tree. Apparently reminding people of this (also apparently) oft-forgotten fact can help protect the environment. Go order some stickers and put them up in your local coffee shop.

Testing shows a “These Come From Trees” sticker on a paper towel [...]

November 12th, 2007
Topic: Direct Action, Environment Tags: , , , ,

This message will disappear in 24 hours

Scientists at Xerox have developed an ink that will disappear from printed paper in 24 hours, allowing the paper to be reprinted and reused again. The ‘disappearing ink’ is actually not an ink at all, but a temporary discoloration of light sensitive molecules known as photochromes. A sheet of paper is coated with these molecules [...]

October 9th, 2007
Topic: Good Fact Tags: ,

Those Crafty Japanese!

First it was paper cranes, now it’s bridges. Architect Shigeru Ban is moving us along the twenty-first century by using very old technology: paper! Ban has created an cardboard bridge in France.
Weighing 7.5 tonnes, the bridge is made from 281 cardboard tubes, each 11.5 centimetres (four inches) across and 11.9 millimetres thick. The [...]

July 31st, 2007
Topic: Art, Environment Tags: , , , , ,

Paper from Poo and Xerox

People tend to use a lot of paper, we can do a lot by lessening how much paper we use. Currently we can buy 100% post-consumer paper and print double-sided. But what if we can go one step further?
Recycled paper mixed with a slurry of sheep poo can make more paper! The amount of jokes [...]

September 8th, 2006
Topic: Environment, Good Fact, Technology Tags: , , , ,