In the office - a mountain of paper

Whether you are working in an office away or at home, you probably spend a lot of time printing. A lot of you are starting to notice, if you haven't already, that you are producing an incredible amount of paper- a lot of it wasted. Maybe you need to print 100-page legal documents or new recipes or airline e-tickets. Doesn't matter. A staggering amount of trees have been chopped down in order to support our nasty habit of printing, printing, printing.

One solution is to print double-sided or to flip over and re-use old printed materials, and while this certainly helps ("way to go" for those of you doing this because it gets really annoying sometimes trying to figure out which way to re-insert the used document to make the printer print on the clean side, especially if you are in a hurry), there are still many pages printed unnecessarily.

I may have found a solution!

Modern Eco Mom idea: Use GreenPrint software

GreenPrint software (www.printgreener.com) lets you easily view documents so you do not print any blank pages. The license (yes, you have to purchase this program - about $35 or 40 for an individual- they offer volume discounts for corporate usage) also includes a .pdf writer which may save you from printing anything at all! You can trial it free for 30 days. I am loving it!

I believe it is only offered for PCs, but I'm sure that issue will be resolved shortly.

Check it out and save some trees!