{"id":91202,"date":"2009-12-17T18:21:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T23:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2009\/12\/17\/decrease-your-carbon-footprint-2600-%e2%80%94-with-one-click\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T18:21:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T23:21:27","slug":"decrease-your-carbon-footprint-2600-%e2%80%94-with-one-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/91202","title":{"rendered":"Decrease Your Carbon Footprint 2600% \u2014 With One Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/files\/2009\/12\/calculator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1725\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/inspiredeconomist\/files\/2009\/12\/calculator-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> Do you like to play with online tools? I do. I like environmental calculators. It&#8217;s fun to plug in a bunch of numbers and see what you come up with.<\/p>\n<p>Take environmental calculators offered by paper companies. Want to know how much you can green your print marketing just by making a simple switch? They&#8217;ll tell you. With a few clicks, they&#8217;ll tell you how much you can save in water, trees, landfill waste, BTUs of energy, and more simply by switching from virgin to a variety of other stocks with postconsumer waste (PCW) content.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s incredible is how little it takes to make a huge difference. Simply by increasing your PCW content from, say, 10% to 25%, you can actually decrease your carbon footprint by thousands of percent. For example, using the environmental calculator from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wausaupaper.com\/environment\/calculator.aspxb\">Wausau Paper<\/a> (500 sheets of 8.5 x 11&#8243; with 10% PCW content), I could save the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2009\/12\/17\/decrease-your-carbon-footprint-2600-%e2%80%94-with-one-click\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inspiredeconomist\/com\/~4\/83qejCRNeek\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like to play with online tools? I do. I like environmental calculators. It&#8217;s fun to plug in a bunch of numbers and see what you come up with. Take environmental calculators offered by paper companies. Want to know how much you can green your print marketing just by making a simple switch? They&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}