Tip o’ the Day: Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Email
Email is the greatest; in fact, we don't know how we survived without it. It's an environmentalist's dream - all of our communications are digital & tree-free! But that's not true, is it? Many of us are still in the habit of printing out our emails, just in case we want to reference it later. This is almost never necessary, and a new trend has sprouted on the internet to combat it.
You might have seen it already on the email signature of one of your contacts. It's a tree with a winding road, and a message: "Please consider the environment before printing this email." We believe this ever so subtle guilt-trip has saved at least several reams of paper so far.
If your email program can handle rich text or html, then you can have the complete signature. The picture of the tree that is being used in this case is actually the letter P using the Webdings font. Then, simply write the message and make the whole thing green. Now you are all set!
Rebecca says: It seems that Gmail isn't letting me use the rich text in the signature. I might have to go without color and tree and simply write the message. Gmail should know better! Did anyone catch their April Fool's joke? It's very appropriate for today's topic: Introducing Gmail Paper.
Tags: email, paper, printing, waste
June 24th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Hi there Rebecca,
Can you tell me where I can get one of those “Please consider the environment….” notes to paste on my email?
Cheers,
CB.
September 6th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Hi There Rebecca,
I wanted to introduce this to our office but the first question that came up was is there any breach of copy right infringement for using the livery…any help on this would be great.
Cheers
AH
September 14th, 2007 at 10:53 am
It’s just the letter P in another font so it no more breaks copyright than using the letter P in Arial or Times New Roman.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:43 am
Rebecca,
We were also interested in introducing this to our office. Have you determined if there is any breach of copy right infringement for using the livery? Thanks for the help.
JAT
October 25th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Same question as others; is their a copy right issue here?
Denise
October 26th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Comment #3: < << so it no more breaks copyright than using the letter P in Arial or Times New Roman. >>> which means NO COPYRIGHT !
I’m searching for the origin of this idea and am not able to find any.
Do you have a clue ?
Did a specific company or any environmental group launch the idea on the net ?
Thanks for any help !
SBr.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Hello folks,
I would like very much to use this at the bottom of all fo my emails, but am having trouble with doing it. So, if anyone could be so kind as to walk me through, I’d really be so appreciative. I can get it to cut and paste into a new email, but CAN IT BE MADE A PART OF MY “SIGNATURE” THAT CAN BE SET AS A DEFAULT?
Thank you for any guidance you can be!
C.Carroll
December 19th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Who prints email? Seriously, have you ever done this?
January 8th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
There is a copyright on the tree and winding road. See http://www.driverrehab.com/Templates/Tree%20&%20winding%20road.gif
Dated 2005!
Somebody turned it green and took out the line in the road!
I like the idea, but am concerned too.
Rich
January 16th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
THIS IS AWESOME!
I’m going to print out this post and make some handouts!