Every year, we chop down over 400,000 trees just so we can have our phone bills mailed to our homes! Add in our electric bills and credit card bills, and that number must be well into the millions. But our mail damages more than our forests -- it damages our atmosphere.
"The cost in fuel and CO2 for one bill is tiny," writes author David de Rothschild in The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook, "but it adds up." So consider Essential Skill #11:
Bank online.
The United States alone could cut 2.1 million tons of emissions per year if everyone received and paid their bills through the Internet. As de Rothschild suggests, "Look at your bills this month. More than likely, every single one has a paragraph begging you to pay your bill online."
Online banking saves companies money on paper, printing and postage. You save money on checks and stamps. Why not just give in to technological-temptation and save the Earth too?
For more information about banking online, go to ElectronicPayments.org.
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We already pay more than half of our bills online or through an automatic debit, but most of these companies still send us bills through the mail. We need to find out if any or all can bill us via email instead.
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