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You cannot stop a negative habit without knowing how much and how often you are doing it. Enter the financial "carrot": the online environmental calculator with a finance edge. Organizations like Xerox, RecycleBank and Creative Citizen are offering more than just a climate change reason to decrease consumption: money.

Green Printer pick no. 1 - Chegg.com is for your high schooler, not your eight year old but the top textbook rental company in the U.S. - who already offers millions of textbooks for rent with savings of up to 80% - will now plant a tree for every book your Timbaland-listening-15-year-old Forest Citizen rents.

And so, after scouring the web, the awards for the widgets with the greatest ‘coolness factor’ and the ones you can actually use to measure and improve your organization’s sustainability bottom line go to…

Best C02 tracking widget: C02 Stats Who: Yale and Harvard research whizzes Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross and Timothy M. Sullivan.

And so, after scouring the web, the awards for the widgets with the greatest ‘coolness factor’ and the ones you can actually use to measure and improve your organization’s sustainability bottom line go to…

Best C02 tracking widget: C02 Stats Who: Yale and Harvard research whizzes Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross and Timothy M. Sullivan.

Myth no. 2: Buying recycled paper doesn’t really help anything, especially climate change.

This week, greenwash fatigued bloggers (Gawker describes it as improbable a real news item as ‘the hot dog industry going vegetarian’) and non-profit spokespersons turned a skeptical eye on a group of direct marketing companies called the Green Marketing Coalition (GMC).

A survey of the top ten environmental pet peeves among over 1,569 adult U.S. and Canadian office workers by Harris Interactive: 1. Mindless printing resulting in increased waste (40%); 2. Leaving lights on (37%); 3. Lack of recycling bins (33%); 4.

What does a leader in business that moves us “far, fast” towards our sustainability goals look like? It’s a relevant question to our pressing need for solutions and Nicola Acutt, Ph.D. writes a “bang on” response to it.

How can a leader stop green fatigue from stymieing the ongoing efforts of its staff? Here are the five S’s to keep sustainability flourishing from the inside out: 1. Shake things up; 2. Show honesty; 3. Scintillating conversation and; 4. Step down.

"Paper is a tremendously resource-intensive product to produce," explains project manager Victoria Mills, "and the decomposition of paper in landfills generates methane, a greenhouse gas with 23 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide."

For all those days when you believe your green values aren’t aligned with your workplace but you can’t - or don’t want to - make the eco-entrepreneur step, here are some immediate action steps to try out at the office this Monday.

Remember: while many green teams start from humble beginnings, they can grow exponentially - pent up passion for green amongst employees can be powerful driving force.

This week, Green Meeting Guide publishers and The Innovolve Group identified nearly 1,000 qualified suppliers in 10 distinct categories located in 7 major markets in Canada (I suspect it won’t be long until a similar directory emerges in the U.S.), making the Green Event Guide the most comprehensive reference document on “green” practioners in the hospitality sector.

Ever wondered how much energy and thought it took to produce that shiny brochure your marketing staff handed to you this week? And no, it’s not just the brand and visual design genius we’re talking about.

If you’re the latter or if you are a green procurer, you probably want to streamline the “boom!

A short, weekly “school of hard knocks” history of why paper supply chain management is not as easy as it looks - but can be. A Green Printer dispatch.

Deforestation hurts. Just ask Harrison Ford - he waxed his chest and demonstrated just how close forests are to his heart.