Saving money with a different font

According to Education Week online, a Wisconsin school figured out a way to save money. They changed the font in e-mails from Arial to Century Gothic. If you are thinking what I am thinking, that sounds like a very minimal thing. When I first start reading this article I did not really see how that could save anyone money. After reading the article a little further, students save money by printing less pages. With the font not being as large, the students are not having to print as many pages off, saving them money, it might be a minimal amount, but it does add up over time. The school's director of computing says the the font change saves about 30% less ink than the previous font did.

To prove how minimal this change in font really isn't, these savings will truly have an impact. Did you know that the cost of ink per gallon works out to be about $10,000. WOW! When you think of ink from that aspect, the change in font could make a drastic difference in costs used for printing.

This decision made by school is part of a 5 year plan to "go green". I love seeing all of the different efforts made by so many different people, companies, colleges, etc. I would love to have a classroom one day that was "green". Although I have not thought out all of the kinks of how I will do it, I am few things in mind that I would like to try and bring into my classroom. That is something that I want to look more into. Hopefully I will be able to get different ideas from current teachers on how they make their classrooms green.

To read the entire article, visit: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/03/25/341611usoddcheaperemailfont_ap.html.



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