The Bite:
Make the leap to recycled calendars. An extra February day in 2008 (yep, it's a leap year) just means one more day to celebrate the year-round tradition of saving paper.
Trying to get a jump on 2008?
12.11.2007
Submitted by tmeronek on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 1:42am.
The Benefits:
- Saving paper, 52 weeks a year. More than 50 mil calendars are sold in the United States every year - that's a lotta trees.
- Old-school organization in 2008. Old-fashioned paper planners don't ever run out of batteries or suffer system glitches (grr, PDAs).
- Days, weeks, and months filled with better designs than your average Precious Moments cal.
Personally Speaking:
Most of us use electronic PDA-based calendars, but Toshio lives his life via a Quo Vadis planner.
Wanna Try:
- Quo Vadis - FSC-certified (though not recycled) calendars and planners in various sizes and styles ($15-$40).
- LobotoMe MomMe Weekly Calendar - 9-by-12-in recycled-paper planner for busy moms ($20).
- Mixed Role Productions August to August Calendar - simple, weekly academic planner in two colors ($16).
- Ecological Calendar - 12-month, recycled-paper calendar that notes seasons, moon phases, tides...the natural structure of the year ($15).
- Mutts Comics Calendar - 12-month recycled cal with fanciful animal illustrations ($13).
- ThriftyFun - DIY uses for last year's calendar.
Cocktail Fact
Only 0.0684% of people (um, 1 in 1,461) are born on Feb. 29.
Bang For The Bite
If 10,000 Biters opt for a 100%-recycled weekly planner rather than a nonrecycled one, we'll save the weight of 27 adult leaplings (aka people born on Feb. 29) in paper.
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