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I just finished paying the bills for the month and guess what!  There was no paper involved.  I do all online banking, so all my bills are emailed to me and I logon to a few websites to see my bank statements and authorize some transactions.  While I’ve been paying my bills online for awhile, I’ve recently gone through each bill I receive and make sure that I request to no longer receive paper bills but rather they are emailed to me.

There are tons of benefits of online banking but I’ll only focus on the environmental impacts here. The bills aren’t being printed out, shipped to me through the mail, no paper checks, forget driving to the post office, buying stamps, and no transportation of the all that paper back to the company I’m paying.  So it’s not just eliminating the paper but also the environmental impacts of transportation.

Do you receive and pay your bills online?

Do you put quotes in your email signatures?  I’ve never really been one to put anything other than my contact information in my signature, but I realize that it is only because there hasn’t been anything screams “you should send this to everyone you would ever send an email to”.  I’ve finally seen something that I truly want everyone to see when they receive an email from me.

Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Now I’m not sure if the person that originally sent the email (a friend of a friend), added this line herself or if it is part of a corporate signature.  Regardless, I’m stealing the idea and adding it to my signature. 

So much about making changes is more about education and being aware and not much at all to do with making huge sacrifices.  This definitely fits in with trying to help people be more aware about what they are doing.

Take a look at emails you receive from me in the future, it’ll be there!