New Font Called EverGreen Saves 20% On Print Outs

A company called GreenPrint has invented a computer font that saves 20% on printing toner compared to Arial, Helvetica and Times New Roman fonts. The font is aptly named 'EverGreen' and it is the first in a series of eco friendly fonts that GreenPrint will market. 
The company also offers a printing program that’s as eco friendly as a printing program can get; it scans your printouts for content you’re not likely to read, such as banner ads on a Web page and images and eliminates them from the printout. The program, which is compatible to all Microsoft Windows based systems, furthermore allows you to create print-friendly PDF documents of pages within a few seconds.
Perhaps the most interesting part is that the printing software calculates exactly what amount of paper, money, and greenhouse gases you are saving by using it. The company says that an individual using the program on average saves up to $90 a year. That’s the equivalent of more than 1,400 pages. The company says that if the number of users sign up for its program that they’re expecting to sign up, some 100 million trees could be prevented from being chopped down. That is the equivalent of 300 million tons of greenhouse gases.
A case study on GreenPrint's website details the contribution to the environment that a big pharmaceutical company made in just over 11 months. Their environmental report card shows that they contributed to 6,298 trees left standing, saving 1,858,876 gallons of water, cutting energy usage by 1,094,688 kilowatt hours (the equivalent to heating and cooling 47 houses for a year), preventing 823 cubic yards of solid waste being dumped in landfills, cutting air pollution back by 15,522 pounds. Imagine! That's only 11 months! There’s a free printer program as well as a paid downloadable program. The latter offers ad free print previews and tech support. If you are interested in calculating the exact differences for the environment of all kinds of paper types, you can try Environmental Defense's <a="http://www.environmentaldefense.org/papercalculator/index.cfm">calculator</a>, which allows you to go into similar detail.
Pressures on retailers of paper products are strong to 'go green'. Only last weekend, <a href="http://amplifiedgreen.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/staples-seeing-the-wood-for-the-trees/">a story broke</a> that US office supplies giant Staples ditched their Singaporean paper supplier because of environmental reasons. Source: <a href="http://amplifiedgreen.wordpress.com">http://amplifiedgreen.wordpress.com</a>