• by Amanda , October 24, 2007

Everyone’s going green these days. I love it and fully support green habits, however it’s not always easy for broke college students to cut back on waste, switch to more efficient appliances, plant trees, etc. If fact – because money is so limited – it’s hard to make a difference in any of these areas. But media seems to be the one place where we can all make small modifications to help the environment overall because – let’s face it – media consumes a lot of our time.

Media companies are spending big bucks on their eco-friendly campaigns – making informed decisions about who you are buying from will show these campaigns can return on investment and will make this message sustainable.

I received an e-mail this week which had “Act Green: Do you really have to print this e-mail?” appended to the signature section. Something as simple as not printing our billion e-mails will add up to fewer wasted sheets of paper, fewer wasted trees, and maybe a more conscious approach to resource-use in general. E-mail archives were made for a reason!

Even Facebook is getting involved. A friend of mine invited me to add the “Greenbook” application to my Facebook profile. The group is pretty cool in that they use sponsorship money to decrease CO2 emissions. Each day they dole out a portion of those CO2 emissions to members so you can see how much CO2 you have reduced personally. As of today, 108,207.66 lbs. total group-wide.

There have to be other simple ways to “Go Green” with our media. Any ideas?