it ain't easy being green

but in the LONG RUN IT'S WORTH IT. i sent this article to my department at work. it's a start. perhaps other departments will pick it up as well. it seems small, but it's a start
One Tiny Change Could Save Thousands Of Trees
By JOANN KLIMKIEWICZ Courant Staff Writer
The spark for Tamara Krinsky's grass-roots paper-saving movement came years ago, and it had less to do with living a green lifestyle than it did a thrifty one.Back in her days as a struggling actress, Krinsky found herself going through stacks of paper as she printed thick manuscripts and writing drafts from home. By shrinking the default margin settings to under an inch, she found she could scrimp on paper and save herself a few bucks.Years later Krinsky struggled no more, but her frugal habit remained. So while working on the marketing campaign for an environmental documentary film last summer, she was reflexively changing the margins on a research document when a light bulb went off. "Granted," she says, "it was an environmentally friendly light bulb."What would happen and how much paper might be saved, she wondered, if the paper-printing masses adopted a narrower standard margin setting? Besides, what but habit dictates that pages be capped with inch-wide margins at their tops and bottoms and a quarter-inch more on their sides?......

change the margins