Paper CalculatorI am helping to implement an EMS program in our company, and have been dubbed the "paper champion." It's an embarassing title, and makes me sound like a superhero. Really my job is to make the environmental impact of extraneous paper consumption tangible to everyone in our office, and create programs and training to help people reduce the amount of paper they use on a daily basis. This calculator is a simple and streamlined tool that puts paper consumption into a real environmental context. It's no longer just "2 tons of 50% recycled paper a year," but "24 trees" or "1 swimming pools worth of waste water"--terms that everyone understands. --Erin Dopfel www.papercalculator.org |