If you’re like me, you hate getting those spam faxes for great deals on mortgages. Not only do I not need to hear about any more impossibly good mortgages, I certainly don’t want any more trees to be killed to tell me about them. And no matter that spam by fax is illegal, according to the Federal Trade Commission—it still happens. The good news is that there are companies that solve the dilemma. It may not stop the spammers, but it does stop from needlessly killing trees.

Faxmicro (www.faxmicro.com) is only one of the companies that allows you to send and receive faxes without using any paper. This company offers a subscription starting at $4.95/ month.

For not much more than the price of a coffee, you get a fax number and all of your faxes are sent to your e-mail’s inbox. In addition to helping save paper, this is certainly the best part of the service—no matter where you are in the world, as long as you have access to your e-mail, you will also have access to your faxes. And, since the faxes automatically show up in your inbox a PDF file, you can decide which faxes—and which pages to print out. So, no more unnecessary faxes and no more wasteful cover pages. Plus for $.05 a page, you can send faxes anywhere in the U.S. and for an extra fee you can send faxes internationally.

With such conveniences, there’s no excuse not to reduce the paper clutter in your office and help our environment by reducing your consumption of natural resources.

If your work requires a lot of driving time, it may be time to invest in some environment-saving auto technology. No, that does not mean that you have to go out and buy a hybrid—though it’s not a bad idea. But thankfully there is another solution for all those people who don’t want to buy a new car or for those who are dedicated to non-hybrid brands. A new environmentally-friendly product for your car has just hit the market, called the Blade (www.bladeyourride.com). You attach it to your tailpipe and it decreases emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases.

Specifically, the Blade reduces emission of CO2 (greenhouse gas); reduces emissions of pollutants such as carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides; and reduces emission of toxic particulate material.

Need more fodder to convince you that this is a worthy investment? Here it is: The Blade increases your fuel economy. Based on testing in various driving conditions, vehicles achieve 11 to 34 percent increases in fuel economy when using the Blade.

And if you happen to be one of the early-adopters of hybrids, it turns out that the ultimate vehicle is a hybrid with a Blade on it. While your hybrid runs on battery at slow speeds, you’re still burning emissions while you’re on the highway. But now, you can cut down on those too.

So, hybrid or not, here’s your chance to get out on the open road and drive to your heart’s content—without the guilt of destroying the beautiful air around you.

If it’s come time for your office to move, then you know the drill—you buy hundreds of boxes; stuff them full of papers, electronic equipment and tchotchkes; move said boxes; empty the boxes; and recycle (hopefully you don’t throw them away!) perfectly good once-used boxes. And, until now, there really hasn’t been another choice but to waste hundreds of boxes for a move—after all, it’s unlikely that you’re going to go dumpster diving for boxes at the local grocery store for the sake of your entire office.

Thankfully, there is finally another option. Rather than buying all of your boxes at Office Depot or Staples, you can buy them at UsedCardboardBoxes.com (www.usedcardboardboxes.com), where all of the boxes are “rescued” and resold. So, instead of cutting down trees for your next move, you can use boxes that are previously used, factory misprints, overruns or customer returns. You may end up with boxes that are printed on or have handwriting or packing labels on them, but other than that they are in perfectly good shape. The best part is that these boxes cost less than new boxes, so you also save money in your move. And most boxes will arrive at your doorstep within two days of ordering.

Of course, to pack breakable items, remember to use earth-friendly packing materials. While you and your staff go through files, shred all of those papers that would end up in recycling and use the shreds as packing material. If you do need to buy additional packing material, buy biodegradable packing peanuts, which dissolve in water and leave no toxic waste, or recycled packing peanuts, which are made from the remains of other loose fill. And if you need to buy bubble wrap, make sure it is also made of recycled materials.

Recycled packing materials are easy to find—they are at all standard office supply stores. Biodegradable packing peanuts may take a little more work to track down, but it shouldn’t be too hard. If your local office supply store doesn’t have them in-stock, then www.staples.com likely does.