Institute for Digital Ecology · Est. 2016 · Geneva

Think before
you print.

Screenleaf is a non-profit working to make the paperless choice the default choice. Every document you keep on a screen is a document that never became a felled tree, a litre of ink, or a page in a landfill.

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31,400+

Signatories

640

Partner offices

Countries

Why it still matters

Paper is a climate decision hiding in plain sight.

The average office worker still prints 10,000 sheets a year — and roughly two in three of those pages are read once, or never at all.

Screenleaf partners with employers, public bodies and schools to remove the small frictions that make printing the easy default: better screens, better habits, and policies that treat digital as the finished form — not the draft.

Our programmes

Three habits, one greener office.

Campaign

Think Before You Print

The signage, screensavers and email footers that put a two-second pause between a document and the print button. Free for any workplace.

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Workplace

The Paperless Office

A 90-day programme that helps teams move approvals, sign-off and archiving fully on-screen — with a measured audit at the end.

See the framework →

Inboxes

Inbox, Not Printer

Guidance for keeping correspondence digital, including the footer line that has quietly saved millions of pages: “consider the environment before printing this email.”

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Reported impact · 2016–2025

What staying on-screen adds up to.

2.4B

Sheets of paper not printed

288k

Trees standing

61M L

Water conserved

19,600 t

CO₂e avoided

Figures are cumulative, self-reported by partner offices and modelled from the Environmental Paper Network calculator. Full methodology in our annual review.

The paperless pledge

Keep it on the screen.

Join 31,400 people who’ve committed to printing only when it truly matters. We’ll send one short habit each month — nothing else.

Think beforeyou print.