Having read a NY Times article on reducing your environmental impact — “The Energy Diet” yesterday, today I took action to call and ask Discover to stop sending me credit card offers. The fellow was perfectly friendly, and offered me another number to get off all credit offers.

1-888-567-8688 gets you the Consumer Credit Reporting Industry Opt-In & Opt-Out program, and although it took several tries for the computer to figure out how to deal with my last name, I’ll hopefully be getting less uneccessary mail and saving some trees. Also called The Company Store to tell them I don’t need paper catalogs since I only order online. I’ll try and remember to do the same with any other catalogs I get.

As the guy in the article points out, it takes very little time to make the phone call, and should save a fair amount of paper.