The Green Office and Website

[judyofthewoods]

If you know of any product or service which may help green up a business, please add it to this thread. Please put the item in the subject line or bold it to make a visual search easier. If it is a physical product, please also include the country in the subject. Thanks.

Printer Friendly Service

If you sometimes print web pages you can use this very useful free online tool, Print What You Like which helps you remove all the stuff you don't want to print reducing the amount of ink and paper you use. It can also be used to create simplified pdf files of interesting web pages to store on your computer for reference. Yes, you could simply save a web page as is, but it is easier to read pages without all the extraneous stuff like adverts, banners and anything else not of interest.

When you sign up with the service, you can place a link they provide in your bookmarks which allows you to call up the tool. When you visit a web page you want to edit, save or print all you do is click on the bookmark and the editor appears inside your browser next to the page. The editor allows you to save a page with one click.

Print What You Like is also useful for reading web pages which are cluttered with flashing or otherwise distracting adverts or where a page has difficult to read light text on dark background.

If you have a blog or website you could place a link to the service instead of providing printer friendly pages.

[judyofthewoods]

Recycled office paper - UK

www.paperback.coop

[AlisonKerr]

My friend Wendy of http://mygreenside.org uses a green web hosting service which she recommends. It's called Taproot Hosting http://www.taproothosting.com/green_web_hosting.php.

One thing to be aware of with this service is that they seem to take care of some of the technical side of Wordpress for clients. Great if you don't know how to do that, hard if you like to do that yourself. I would check what they do for you before considering whether to use them and see if it's a good fit.

[Rache]

Mother Earth News dot com --> my fave, from where I got my homemade "green" facial recipes we are more beautiful when we are green