Final Project Proposal

I've been always very interested in the issue of pollution, environment, waste, etc. This semester I am taking two classes related to this topic, Design Expo about health and wellness, Sustainability Practice about environment, energy, pollution, sustainability. I got a lot of awareness in my head. So I am very happy to develop something really help solve some of these problems.

I had an experience earlier this semester, when I had 18 web pages needed to print out, but finally I got 54 sheets of paper, which is a huge waste of paper I think(200% waste!!!), because on the paper there are a lot of information including texts, images, videos, menus, bars and flashes which I don't want and need. I can do nothing but throw them away. It's OK to drop them in the recycling bin, but still a big waste before its full life cycle.

So I got an idea for the project in Design for Constraints class. It's a firefox plug-in, with which people can select a portion of web page and right click to print it out. In this way, people can easily just print the information only they want, thus save paper, ink and time, as well as benefit the reading.

I've shared this idea with some friends. All of them kind of like it and express the willing to use it.