Think of the environment ...

... before you print this email.

I hate this common addition email signatures. It's right up there with the "Honk if you had it last night" bumper sticker in my books. More to the point some recent analysis suggested that Google Mail expends the same amount of electical energy in sending an email (Google is known how have some of the worlds largest data centers) as it takes to boil a kettle. Google contest this suggestion, which is their perogative.

What I'm suggesting is that perhaps people should think about sending the email in the first place rather than worrying about how many sustainable trees were cut down to print it. Speaking of which I wonder how many cups of tea I've used up in this post.