To reduce paper consumption, The ECO-SAFE Foundation offers environmentally friendly printing alternatives for Web site visitors. I recently had a chance to ask ECO-SAFE founder Jason Schultz a few questions about his rapidly expanding program.

1. What is the overall mission of ECO-SAFE?

The mission is to develop and market technologies that help cut down on the volume of paper waste.

2. Your Web site says “We are creating more ECO-SAFE programs, social applications, and web technologies to pursue a greener web. Can you tell us about some of them?

Sure, we have a certified WordPress blog plugin that lets people use the eco-safe delivery methods right from their WordPress powered blog. Also we are finishing up a FireFox extension to give users a button on their browser which will allow them to download, email, or save a PDF version of that given web page. All of the PDF’s generated from the website are dynamic in that they preserve the links, form fields, and other media. This let’s people share the eco-safe PDF and then still interact with the content. We also have other great social networking apps in the works which people can use on their profile pages to allow for eco-safe PDF delivery as well. So, many things in the works. (more…)