After I gave a talk at An Event Apart one year, I got a comment asking me about the environmental costs of using so much paper. Now, it’s not that I hadn’t thought about my paper usage, it’s just that the digital alternatives just didn’t (and still don’t) cut it for many of the problem solving techniques use.

But hey - I am diligent about not using disposable shopping bags. Not that I’m defensive or anything.

3m is getting into the green game, though.  They have a promotion where for each 3m of Post-it product purchased and registered, they’ll plant a tree. Their goal is to plant 100,000 trees. They only have 768 so far… some of their recycled products (post-its and easel pads) and register those purchases with them, they’ll plant a tree.

Every little bit counts, right? I mean, hey, you were going to use a billion post-it notes anyway, right?