Boy is that a phrase you hear/see all the time. On the sides of buses, in the subway, in magazines, news reports and campaign pledges. You know where you don't see it? Email.
You say that sounds absurd? Well, I don't.
Sure, hybrid cars are quite chic these days. Recycling is cool, any 2nd Grader will tell you that. Heck, I even saw a short piece on the news last night about a beer company that has gone green (remind me to buy stock in them or get drunk on them, whichever). But no one thinks about email. Why should you? Well, if you work in an office or possibly like printing out emails to track purchases you might start taking this into consideration.
I work in an office and every time I'm sent a receipt by email I have to print it out then file the thing. But you know what happens? Two sheets of paper. Everything I need to know on one, then another sheet of paper that says, "thanks" or simply has the URL. What's the deal with this? Yea, I put it in the recycle bin or the scrap paper heap, but that's ridiculous.
Orbitz, Amazon, you name it. They do it. Why hasn't someone fixed this? Can we pass this message around? Give me my email receipt as ONE page. Sure I could say, only print the first page, in my print options. But I don't want to!! We have a hybrid cars, but you can't give me an email confirmation that only occupies one sheet of paper? It's stupid. I mean, I use Outlook. Isn't that that the standard? Jeez. Way to save the planet.
I mean, if I had my way I wouldn't print anything out. Unfortunately, I don't have it my way and I work for a mindless bureaucracy.
Seriously, can we start some sort of campaign? Who wants to hand out leaflets with me?
3 comments:
serve me some o' that green beer & count me in!
Arnold Schwarzenn...whatever - recently said that we have to make saving the environment and being environmentally conscious, "cool". But he used the example of how he made bodybuilding "cool" and mainstream and how it's totally normal now. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I like polar bears.
I think I see where Arnie is going with this. He pumped himself full of chemicals and became Governor of California; we should pump all of our greenhouse gasses back into the Earth (as has been proposed) and the Earth will become the Governor of THE UNIVERSE!
Now, I enjoy the prospect of going green as much as the next liberal, but pumping gas back into the Earth? Is that -really- the best idea? Are we -trying- to blow up our planet? Cause I bet that's the way to do it.
P.S. I am currently working the Hearst building, which is the first green building in NYC. It. Is. Incredible.
http://www.hearst.com/tower/artist/
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