Comments on: "Please consider the environment before printing this email"

By: Jerimiah Paradise

Jerimiah Paradise — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:59:33 +0000

Thank you for your post. Great.

By: Sternchen Skivogu

Sternchen Skivogu — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:53:11 +0000

Sometimes having seen this “Please consider the environment before printing” made me realized i can help preserving the environment in my own little way..Now i only print the important ones and reuse the blanc back page of used papers..

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:16:37 +0000

Did anyone every think of the carbon footprint this message has left on the environment? Every word you type and store in email is placed in a server. That means that this small but consistent message is being save every time. At work alone my email is 100+ a day. I reply and send more than 100 but for this sake let’s say 100 too. Let’s also assume everyone in my company uses this stupid tag to remind others how to save the world. That message has to be repeatedly saved on our exchange server 200+ times for me. Take that space for year after year and think how many servers and storage had to be created to hold this message. It is actually a lot of irony. You can save the planet by changing who and what you stand for, there isn’t a message out there that will change others and even if there were you would put it in your email signature.

By: Odesk

Odesk — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:57:42 +0000

Well, The sustainable forest also provides employment for tens of thousands of North Americans – jobs that we cannot afford to lose. ;)

By: fax email

fax email — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:05:29 +0000

I think, with all this ‘don’t print this email, think of the environment’ claptrap it is likely that the people who follow this idea will actually make a difference to the number of trees planted.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:51:54 +0000

Dan– you are an asshole. People like you should be shot! You are a waste of space and resources.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:48:25 +0000

I’ll consider my eyes before thinking of not printing any e-mail

By: Julian B

Julian B — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:53:17 +0000

Funnier still out of the 12,816 pages mentioned in the above article, if the line “Please consider the environment before printing this email” was removed then that would technically save around 257 pages!

By: printercartridge

printercartridge — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:37:39 +0000

Another post on this http://fwd4.me/3fY

By: marius

marius — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:37:29 +0000

Bryn I think that your approach is wrong.

The ground where the trees live is ultimately going to be depleted of resources. Printing less requires less cutting of trees, thus less land is depleted of resources and it is available for farms, meaning that other forests do not need to be cut elsewhere for agriculture. The demand for farmland is ever higher these days, with the very harmful idea of using plants for biofuels, which is wasting the land.

Also to consider: the paper never returns to the ground and unfortunately most of it is NOT recycled but ends up in archives or goes together with the domestic garbage, where it emits carbon dioxide an methane through decomposition. Also consider the electricity and chemicals used to produce the paper from wood, plus the fuel needed to transport the paper to the customers plus the toner and ink and electric energy needed to print that paper.

I agree however that the forests are the most valuable asset of our world, because of photosynthesis plus:
- the trees reflect back to space the infrared light (which is carrying most of the heat we receive from the Sun) – have you noticed how cool and fresh is the air in the forest?, which help cooling our overheated planet
- the trees regulate the moisture in the air through evaporation and also help redistributing the water in the atmosphere through formation of clouds, which means more rain for agriculture
- they roots work against erosion and help the soil to absorb water (without them the water from rain will form torrents and will go straight into the rivers, producing overflows).
- the forests are home for biodiversity

Moreover I am convinced that the most important step the humanity needs to take in order to save and sustain the life on this planet is stopping and reversing the massive deforestation.

Hope that you or others read this late reply and agree.