By: E&P Staff The Berkeley (Calif.) Daily Planet moved from twice-weekly frequency to one day a week beginning Thursday.
Executive Editor Becky O'Malley portrayed the change as the paper's contribution to the environment.
"After a lot of discussion, we've decided that the best course of action would be to print and distribute only one issue a week, instead of the current two, on Thursdays instead of the current Tuesdays and Fridays," she wrote in an Earth Day editorial. "This would have obvious environmental advantages: less paper and less gasoline consumed."
O'Malley said the number of pages per issue will increase, as will distribution of the paper. "So the savings aren't as much as they might seem to be, but they're not insubstantial," she wrote.
The paper also said it was upgrading its Web site.
O'Malley noted that the paper had already taken "small steps" towards going green, such as printing with soy ink on recycled paper, and "scrupulously" recycling old issues.
"The practice of some too-energetic community members of recycling bundles of Planets before anyone has read them is not good, however," she added, referring to a rash of thefts of San Francisco Bay Area free papers. Alternative paper publishers complain that thieves are stealing hundreds of new copies of papers to sell to recyclers.
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In a previously posted version of this story, Becky O'Malley's title was incorrectly reported as publisher. E&P regrets the error.
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