As uber-liberal as this might sound, I’ve decided to do my small, SMALL part in helping preserve the environment for tomorrow’s generation. No, I’m not buying carbon credits and no, I’m not switching to wearing burlap or whatever those eco-crazy people do. I’ve decided to do a much smaller part for now and it’s something that you can do, too.

It seems that all of my creditors and debtors (bills and income) offer paper-free communications, so I’ve decided to switch to that method of receiving my statements. Sure, I’m not saving huge swatches of the rain forests nor am I preventing the global warming or whatever is going on out there, but at least I’m doing some small, small part to make things a little bit better.

They way I see it, if everyone flipped over to e-mail or non-paper communications with their debtors, then that has got to be tons and tons of paper that is saved each year. Sure, I don’t know what the exact numbers are, but it’s got to be something big. I’ve also gone a little bit further out on this limb with respect to the charities that I donate to. I’ve asked them to stop sending me paper solicitations in the mail and to only contact me via my e-mail address. Believe it or not, they’ve all been ready and willing to fix my contact method to e-mail only. It’s refreshing to have someone listen to you!

Also, the Market Street Mission in Morristown, New Jersey even complimented me on my eco-friendly approach towards solicitations. That was nice of them to do.

So there you go. That’s my little part to help save the world I guess. And please, bear in mind that if all of this global warming crap goes away in a few years, I’m totally taking 100% credit for it! 🙂