Narrow Your Margins

I really appreciate other people out there who care about the little things you can do in life to make a difference. Maybe a small difference at first. But if enough people follow suit, or over a long enough period of time, that difference can be huge.

And I’m also amazed that people can pick up on something so tiny and make it a crusade. Take Tamara Krinsky for example. Her mission is to get people to narrow their margins. The idea is that when you print documents, if you use narrower margins, you can reduce the number of pages you need to print and therefore reduce the amount of paper you print. (Read all about it on Treehugger.)

Her simple mission has expanded to a petition to Microsoft to change the default settings on Word – currently set at 1.25” – to .75” margins. I really support that concept because then the general public wouldn’t have to make the decision to change the margins; it would just happen automatically. I haven’t actually signed the petition yet though because you have to register with a petition Web site, and I’m not so sure about all that. I’ll just spread the word this way for now.

Think before you print next time. If .75” are too narrow for you, even just changing to 1” margins will help!