Here’s an interesting piece from Bookselling This Week (American Booksellers Association) about the Green Press Initiative, a project to raise awareness about recycled paper and other products in book manufacturing. “Forest free paper” and other environmentally friendly products are supported by over sixty American and Canadian publishers, and more are joining the effort to keep book manufacturers from felling viable trees and forests.
Here’s the website for the project and additional information on their efforts.
Isn’t the web treeless?
What about digital publishing? The web is treeless, right?
Re:Isn’t the web treeless?
Only insofar as people really aren’t burning wood to generate eletricity. How much coal does one eBook represent?
Re:Isn’t the web treeless?
Hydroelectric power, and solar my dear friend.
Of course, you’d have to give up all those fancy graphics, if you want to reduce power consumption. And we’re still talking about large power consumption to make the computers in the first place. However, have you recycled a computer lately? How old is the computer that *you’re* using? I’m doing my part, I’m well past the average age of a computer. Then we’re talking server rooms, and a communications grid. I’d be happier with some burst communication requests, many of the things I do online are anticipatory, and don’t need immediate feedback for.
— Ender, Duke_of_URL