Monday, June 08, 2009
Save Trees Save Money
Earth Day has come and gone, and the Green Festival has blown through the Windy City. So does that mean thinking green is put aside until next year? Hardly! Especially for us entrepreneurs, thinking goes on all of the time, and in many instances it is often labeled as merely saving money.
Last week I was talking with a business partner and she was commenting on the cost of faxing for her, with an aging fax machine and a separate phone line. Asking me how I fax, I told her I use eFax
and I don’t have either. The monthly cost is much less than a phone line, faxes come in as PDFs, and with Adobe Acrobat Professional to markup faxes no paper is involved.
I have been striving to be as paperless as possible, mostly to reduce clutter and to organize and index content for future use. Though eFax is nothing new, I have created one convert, who will be getting greener in more ways than one, just as I have been.
What ways do you save money and the environment at the same time?
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Making scrap notebooks with used paper. We mostly print only on one side. Instead of discarding whatever sheets we don’t intend to use, we keep them, and bind every 100 and get scrap notebooks.
Comment by Hugues
on 06/09/09 at 01:30 AM
I use ureach.com and one of my businesses has a toll-free number which clients can also fax to.
Comment by
Eric Patel
on 06/09/09 at 06:35 AM
Yes, eFax is great…! i remember when eFax first came out and they offered it as a free service…! ahhh, those early crazy days of lotsa free internet stuff, back in the late 90s..! 
Comment by Amy Chasse
on 06/09/09 at 07:31 AM
@Hugues - Yes, recycled paper is all I use these days, especially as I scan documents to PDFs, I am almost mining paper!
@Eric - uReach.com also offers speech-to-text powered by SpinVox.
mp/m
Comment by
Mike Maddaloni
on 06/09/09 at 01:10 PM
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