時尚雙語:小小一步：在你的電郵中添加“愛樹留言”
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，請考慮一下環境”。
在你的電子郵件簽名中加入一條環保留言是一種很有效的提醒注意的方式。畢竟，你發郵件的對象是認識你的。如果你關心環境，他們也會考慮還有什麼是他們可以做的。
我這裏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。之後，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，爲了所有那些在你們的郵件中的惜紙留言，這次我沒有爲每個人都打印一份議程表，而是把它寫在了佈告板上。”
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？
這裏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，可向我諮詢爲何要三思。
• 電郵讓我們打印的東西比以前更多了嗎？
• 你太聰明瞭，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製造的，你真的需要把它打印出來嗎？
如果你有環保電郵簽名，請告訴我們。
