Hemp,hemp,hemp! WHEN (and I mean when) Ron Paul becomes president, I'm sure there will be a move made to legalize this vilified plant. It makes the best paper possible and will save our precious trees. The Constitution was written on this stuff for God's sake :)

I agree with the bohemian donut!  Sometime my intuition tells me that going all electronic is not the greenest or healthiest solution.  I'd rather rattle some papers than sit in front of my computer screen.  Surely Dr. Mercola knows the detriments of sitting too much in front of an electronic device. ..or just sitting too much.  Trees can be replanted.  Paper can be recycled.  We can use less of it, surely, but to go all electronic?  It gives me the shudders!

Going "paperless" is not a good way to go green. In fact by doing so you are reducing the number of trees available to clean up our atmosphere. Use more paper and the industry plants more trees, simple as that. It is other industries, not the paper industry, that is causing deforestation (think agriculture).

NOT only is it possible, it has happened in many industries. The banking an real estate industries would drown in paper in the USA, if it were not for electronic scanning and documentation. In some locations the cost of paper storage dramatically exceeds the cost of digital storage. The US medical industry is adopting E.H.R. (electronic health records) to help reduce the paper. And communicate patient info to multiple doctors. In a few years you won’t be able to service Medicare patients without a E.H.R. system in your practice.

The web you are using now is paperless. Banking has been paperless for a long time.

What is happening is that we are being deluged in information. The amount of information we are deluged in our lives has increased exponentially over the years. Our lives have become far more complicated. We have technologies and system that were hardly conceivable several generations ago.

Don’t ask IF, ask HOW.

LEED is an acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Kudos to you for making the move! Also, look for LEED CI which rates Commercial Interiors, when moving into your space.

i learned that it takes 37 trees to publish one issue of some local toronto health-related magazine. health related used to be green, not anymore i guess! that's enough trees! we need our trees.

i'd say if you really want to go paperless, stop buying magazines, use both sides of the paper, use scrap paper for note paper, insist that the phone and internet companies stop sending you their foolish magazines geared toward teenagers and pay all your bills online and request that the company stop sending you paper statements. also if your ATM gives you the option, select "no" to getting a receipt.

these are the things i'm doing, and though i understand as a student it's not appropriate to give in reports with text printed on both sides or on scrap paper, i still do what i can to minimize my support of deforestation.

my girlfriend has been doing a good job in making the company she works for use recycled paper (which costs a bit more) for the company's printing needs.

I worked for a bank and was happy when mortgage applications went "online". Little did I realize it just gave us the ability to print MORE paper, faster! I think you have lawyers to thank for more paper. Everyone has to get a copy of the fine print, legal notices, disclaimers, privacy acts.......................I wish we could just give people a book to "read" and sign one paper saying they read it :) With that said, I think the paper industry is being villified when these protests and marches and attention should be placed elsewhere, like on factories polluting the air and water, or wait, do paper factories do that too?

I have a practice management program, so no paper patient records at all. Many of my receipts are saved in a computer file. Everything is backed up. Some Dinosaurs get upset with me when I ask if I can e mail instead of faxing information. Even much of my research references and reading is on computer. Not much paper here

Another issue with paper which is largely overlooked is CHLORINE BLEACHING. Those pristine white reams of copy paper have been made so beautifully white for you, with Chlorine. The result is severe contamination of the waters of our planet with highly toxic chloro-carbon compounds, Dioxins. It's the reason why it's no longer safe to eat fish. Think of that every time you re-stock you printer...