Greene’s Green Option

For each person on this planet there are 40 trees. That’s a pretty scary number when you look around and see how much paper we chew through every day at South. Handouts, assignments, rubrics, drafts, more drafts, projects, not to mention the napkins, snack wrappers and toilet tissue: tons of paper gets used here every year.  Some of gets recycled, but not nearly enough.

To that end, I’m experimenting with Greene’s Green Option.  One piece of it is my Web site, SoylentGreene.us; I started it a couple of years ago in hopes of reducing the number of handouts I distribute every year.  The other piece is yours..

To take part, go to gmail.com and make yourself a G-Mail account. G-mail is great because you can save your work as a draft or as a Google document and easily access it from home or school. During the editing and drafting process, you can “invite” your editing partners to look at your saved Google documents to make suggestions and changes.

Save the planet.