It often amazes me that if you take an A4 document, you can print it on A5 instead and only have to reduce the text size to 70% or so of its original size. In the vast majority of cases this makes it still perfectly readable. A simple 30% size reduction reduces paper usage by a half. Issa magic.
Now a lot of people would shirk at this, especially old people who don't understand the need. And also company Executives who would be confused (and possibly assume the saved half pages had all been stolen). But I think the principle can still be employed to save the planet. A bit.
Here's the plan. Every time you make a document, finish it and read it and check it and all that jazz. Then just reduce the font size by 1 pt across the board. This could actually give a reasonable paper reduction on longer documents. Do it. Save money and an oak tree.
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And if you cut out unnecessary apostrophes, it'd be even better.
I'd probably go for the approach of reading it on the screen if that's possible - then you can zoom in if the font's too small.
I also write on the back of used printouts (single sided ones) and recycle it when it's used.
:)
Chip - apostrophe gone. But now I've added an extra comment. And yours is redundant. I think I've made things worse... :-(
As long as we don't print these out, I think we're OK.
Our company "internal performance targets" have 8 measures of success. 6 of them are "normal" ones, showing sales progress against targets for all of our major products.
The seventh shows how full Melbourne's reservoirs are - I don't know why this is considered to be a company target, but it is.
The eighth shows the average number of sheets of paper used per employee during 2007. As at end of March, we were running at 250 per employee. That's an awful lot of apostrophes and oversized fonts.
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