The Green of SignUpGenius.com

I'm room parent for my kids' Montessori class.  As such, a few of my responsibilities include recruiting parents for weekly snack duty,  organizing pot luck events, and getting folks to volunteer for special projects.  This can be time consuming and it can involve lots of sign up sheets, loading of data into spreadsheets and reprinting sign up sheets to lasso stragglers (i.e., a lot of paper).

This year, I decided to automate it and hunted briefly for an online solution.  I stumbled across SignUpGenius and am very glad I did.  Within half an hour, I had an online sign up sheet for snack duty set up and emailed to parents.  Now, they can access the sheet at any time, modify it, swap snack duty with other parents, and receive email reminders so they don't forget.

Now that's some great green technology.