You’ve probably seen the message, “Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail,” at the end of e-mails you receive.

Adding a green message to your e-mail signature can be an effective way to draw notice. After all, the people you’re e-mailing know you. If you care about the environment, they may wonder what more they can do as well.

Here’s a story to illustrate my point. Michael, that’s my husband in case you didn’t know, added an e-mail signature like the one above to his work e-mails. Others in his department started doing the same. In a staff meeting, the organizer said something like, “Well, I didn’t print out an agenda for everyone this time because of all that save-the-paper messages in your e-mails. I wrote it on the board instead.”

That’s a small, but great change. E-mail signatures can help people think. Now here’s something for you to think about:

Do you actually refer back to those e-mails you print? How often can you make PDFs of documents instead of printing them?

Here are some e-mail signatures I came up with just for you to consider:

•If you hug a tree, you’ll be hugged back twice. Please think about not printing this e-mail.

•Trees like you, so please wink back by not printing this e-mail.

•Love a tree, don’t hit print.

•Make sense, not waste. Don’t hit print.

•Ask me why you should think twice before printing this e-mail.

•Does e-mail make us print more than we did before?

•You’re too smart to print this e-mail.

•Lower your impact today by not printing this e-mail.

•Even recycled paper takes energy to make. Do you really need to print this e-mail?

If you have a green e-mail signature, please tell us about it.

在你收到的電子郵件的末尾，你很可能看到過這樣的留言：“在您打印此郵件前，請考慮一下環(huán)境”。

在你的電子郵件簽名中加入一條環(huán)保留言是一種很有效的提醒注意的方式。畢竟，你發(fā)郵件的對象是認識你的。如果你關心環(huán)境，他們也會考慮還有什么是他們可以做的。

我這里有一個小故事可以說明我的觀點。麥克——我老公（解釋一下，以防你困惑）——在他的工作郵件中加入了一條上述類型的郵件簽名。之后，在他們部門中，其他人也開始效仿。一次員工會議上，組織者說了些如下的話：“好的，為了所有那些在你們的郵件中的惜紙留言，這次我沒有為每個人都打印一份議程表，而是把它寫在了布告板上?！?/P>

這是一個微小但偉大的轉變。電郵簽名可以幫助人們思考。現(xiàn)在，有些問題需要你來思考一下：

你真的會再讀你所打印的那些郵件嗎？你把文件轉成PDF格式，而非把它們打印出來的頻率是多久呢？

這里有一些我見過的電郵簽名可供參考：

• 如果擁抱一顆樹，它會給你雙倍回饋。所以請考慮下不要打印此郵件。

• 樹木喜歡你，所以請慎重考慮，不要打印此郵件。

• 愛護樹木，請勿打印。

• 物盡其用，而非浪費。請勿打印。

• 在你打印前，可向我咨詢?yōu)楹我肌?/P>

• 電郵讓我們打印的東西比以前更多了嗎？

• 你太聰明了，不會打印它的。

• 降低一下你今天的影響吧，不要打印這封郵件了。

• 即便再生紙也是要花費能源去制造的，你真的需要把它打印出來嗎？

如果你有環(huán)保電郵簽名，請告訴我們。