Grist: I recently received an email from a publicist with a small note below the signature: Save a tree, it said. Please don`t print this email unless absolutely necessary.
LOL, I thought to myself. Why would I print an email promoting a sustainable pee funnel? Why would I print any email? Her note seemed like a relic from the early 2000s, when we weren`t yet used to reading everything on screens and people still owned printers. Now, however, most of us write on paper so rarely that our hands start to...