Save these Trees! Drop a GreenDime

Green-based service companies are proliferating and some seem incredibly promising. GreenDimes is one of them. Guess how many trees have the honor of being chopped down every year for junk mail? Did you say 100 million? Then you’re right. Now you want to find out about how to get off those lists, now right? But, oh yeah, you wanted to do that three years ago. What happened? It’s not simple… there’s research, multiple lists… etc. Or maybe you did do it yourself and now, horror, you’re back to being inundated. That’s because anytime you put your name and address on something… well, you know. Greendimes does all of this for you and checks it annually and its cheaper for you and for the planet in postage and envelopes than doing it yourself. As a kicker, they plant twelve trees for you just for starting up too. Getting rid of junk mail and saving the planet? You get a gold star GreenDimes.

— John

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 17th, 2007 at 8:53 am. It is filed under Archives, Nature, Sustainability. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

One Response to “Save these Trees! Drop a GreenDime”

  1. Richard Clark says:
    May 12, 2007 at 4:31 am

    Hi…I found your site…..and understand your interest saving our environment…..
    What about trying this?

    1. NEVER top off your gas tank when getting gas….in other words NEVER fill up.
    2. ALWAYS get gas when well below half full and fill up only to half full. This will be a half tank,one time, NO SALE, for the gas companies.
    3. It will also lower the weight of your card by half a tank of gas….which is about 8 gallons ….or about 60 lbs. It would be more for other vehicles. That much less weight would improve gas mileage for EACH card doing this…..multiplies my millions of cars and this could amount to a great deal less gasoline being used.
    PLEASE if you think these ideas have merit…..PASS THEM ON….This could all start on National NO GAS Day…..like this coming May 15th…..but continue long afterward.

    Think what the effect might be if millions of car owners were not buying gas as they used up the TOP HALF of their gas tanks….never to fill that tank top again.

    Think what the effect might be if millions of car owners kept the top half of their gas tanks empty thus lowering the weight of their cars increasing their cars mileage.

    In addition…..think about….walking more….biking more…consolidating trips…cutting back on your driving as much as you can….using more mass transit….buying a hybrid….talking with others about their ideas of what more can be done…..and SHARE your ideas …..Dick C.