Need a good Email Signature? Try a green email signature
Are you looking for an email signature that is effective in other ways?
If you are, then there is a great idea for you that you really need to consider. For example, why not create a “green email?” If you’re wondering what this is, it is an email that contains a disclaimer in the email signature that talks about ways you can use your email to save the environment. In other words, this is a “green email signature.”
A green email signature can be quite creative. For example, you can create a signature disclaimer that asks if you really need to print that email. A lot of people will print their emails so that they can refer back to them. Instead, you can talk about the benefits to the environment by not printing the email because it uses paper and paper uses trees.
You can use such lines as:
- “If you print this message, you’re killing trees!”
- “Printing this message means one more tree must die.”
- “File this email in an email folder and save a tree.”
- “Think before you print and save a tree.”
You can get quite creative with it and have a rather cool signature hanging out at the bottom of your email. You would be quite amazed at how having a green email signature can make a difference in the environment. You can even add a neat button that says, “If this message kept you from printing this email, click here.”
But how do you get these neat green email signatures?
Well, you can create your own, but that could be a little complicated. Instead, you can use a Firefox extension such as WiseStamp, www.wisestamp.com, to use their tools to create yourself an effective and very green email signature. You can create multiple signatures for AOL Mail, Hotmail, yahoo, and Gmail. This can be a lot of fun because you know you are doing something great to help the environment.
It is very important for individuals to know that they don’t have to print out their emails. If you convince 20 people per day to not print their emails, that’s 400 people per week and at least 400 sheets of paper not used. The less paper that is used, the lower the demand for paper. When the paper demand goes down, the paper factories create less paper. This means less trees have to be harvested. It is one very interesting chain reaction that you can start just by having a green email signature in the emails that you send.
It is very easy to see the magnitude of making such a small move. Every little bit will help and every little bit can have an influence.
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August 21st, 2009 at 6:50 pm
How about:
Go ahead and print this out. It’s okay! The wood and paper industry plants 1.7 million new trees EVERY DAY. Since 1987 U.S. forests have increased by 12 million acres to 755 million nationwide – about the same as 100 years ago.
December 27th, 2009 at 12:36 am
YES, they plant new trees, while killing ALL the OLD Growth Forests they can get their GREEDY little hands on. Their are some species of animals that only live in old growth forests.To hide this fact, They leave a thin layer of old growth trees that run adjacent to any major road that is close. Lumber companies still clear cut a few feet past that barrier and we all know how long it takes for the NEW Breed of trees to grow. Yes we may have increased the acreage of forests but they are owned by MEGA companies like Weyerhaeuser and they are a new breed of trees that have made many animals disappear. NOT THE SAME AS !00 YEARS AGO.
January 11th, 2010 at 8:05 am
Buying existing forests to cut down doesn’t mean increasing forests. It’s like buying slaves to shoot at so I can single handedly eradicate the world of all slavery.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:53 am
most of the paper is reused
January 30th, 2010 at 8:45 am
But it looks a lot better as a tree, and provides a great way of suckin up some of that co2…
A sheet of paper dosen’t quite hit the mark….
February 28th, 2010 at 5:06 am
You can spread the word about the Internet footprint via Green email signature from Greenscroll.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:35 pm
I don’t believe in “green emails”. Because I never heard of anyone printing their MOST majority of emails. All people just click “archive” or Delete or “Starred” to mark it as favorite message, or add label to it. By the way, why to print it ?? People are lazy, and finding a mail message by Search is much more easy than searching it on your desk.
So, forget about this fake and hypocrite trend of “care about being green” !
April 8th, 2010 at 3:32 am
“Fake and hypocrite trend” ???
I just wanna cry when reading this kind of comments…
So bored of listening to people saying things like “I never heard of anyone printing their MOST majority of emails”.
Maybe you don’t believe in Buffalo Bill’s record also, uh ?
Oh, you know what ? Once upon a time Native American Indians populated this now mostly fake and hypocrite country you live in…
Good day to you.
November 8th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
While it maybe true the paper industry plants a lot of trees, there are several problems with this rational that “its Okay to print…”
1) They tend to plant all one species of tree, the ones they will harvest in 75 years or so. There will be very little biodiversity here for a very long time; just as the forest “gets going”, here come the loggers. Same idea of a lawn; while its “green” and few bugs live in it, the lawn cannot compare to native vegetation.
2) They are still trying to cut old growth trees (think Ax Men and Swamp Loggers) because it is so profitable to cut large trees.
IE if you had a valuable, irreplaceable antique, would you break it so a few people could earn a few dollars fixing it?
3) Ever view the unmatched majesty of an old growth red wood forest? For your soul, go do it soon. It will make you cry to think of logging such beauty.
December 17th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
It’s just funny to see that the pro conservation comments are so better articulated than the anti-conservation ones. Goes to show that a little education can do some good. Matt, you really have no idea what you are talking about do you dear?
March 17th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
I like it to be green and remind people to save trees and try not to print if not necessary!
April 13th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
@Matt,@CJ FYI there is a world outside US toooo…
parts of world still need lot of trees to be planted
June 23rd, 2011 at 4:53 pm
” Think before you print” Gets the message across, without sounding quacked.
As a full service e-commerce product fulfillment center, we always encourage our customers to use eco friendly packaging. Some companies like Amazon think the bigger the box the safer the package is, (maybe the customer will be excited initially to see a huge box), but it all comes down to what material you are using, & how much though you are giving to the packing process. The truth be told, the smaller the box, the safer the package is. The filling that you use is really what makes the difference, you have to choose the right filling material in the right quantity, that will guarantee a safe & secure package.
Joe @ fulfillrite 732-961-7766.
November 1st, 2011 at 9:22 pm
It will never be enough for some of you, will it? How does a simple thread on PAPER devolve into wild-eyed or condescending comments about shooting slaves, Buffalo Bill and Native Americans?!
I’m a Conservative, and I recycle, conserve water and other precious resources whenever and wherever I can. I practically harass my kids to turn off the lights, and I inch the thermostat up in the summer, and down in the winter. And, goodness knows, our home is full of those mercury-laden CFLs that you libs love so well.
But those preachy little e-mail taglines make me sick. Why must some of you wear your politics on your sleeve at every turn?
You don’t wanna print an e-mail? Fine! Don’t! But don’t you DARE lecture me about what I should or should not do with an e-mail, light bulb, etc.
Don’t you see that you do nothing to further your ultimate cause with your holier-than-thou attitudes? Folks, I have been in communications for almost 30 years, and here’s what you are missing: The messenger is every bit as important as the message.
To the exact point, I will leave you with this: As a solo business person who pays for my own printers, toner and paper, it would be senseless, wasteful and expensive to print e-mails. But some of you Libs just can’t resist the chance to tell the rest of the world how we should live, can you?
@Cris: Did I articulate that well enough for you, DEAR?