sinning rifle, I play this interesting (and not so surprising) note on the Technology Green taken from Matuk.com:
"What is more" green "ink on paper or digital? Don Carli, Executive Vice President SustainComm World LLC and a senior researcher at the Institute communication for sustainable, gave an interesting interview where he puts into question the purported advantages of electronic books, digital ink on real paper counterpart.
Here are some of the most interesting passages of the interview:
" Apart from the factor 'be cool, one of the points of marketing in selling e-readers books is that they are greener than the print counterpart. Surprising that the common view of consumers, unaware of the stories behind this is to think that entering the digital world is more environmentally friendly and saves trees. Many wake up upset to learn that electronic reading is not as green as it was considered naively. "
" There is no doubt that print media can do a better job handling the sustainability of their supply chain and waste, but it is a wrong notion to assume that digital media are categorically organic. Computers, electróncios book readers, cell phones do not grow on trees and power requirements tend to be unsustainable. "
" Make a computer typically requires removing mine and refine dozens of minerals and metals, including gold, silver and palladium, as well as extensive use of plastics and hydrocarbon solvents. To function, digital devices require a constant flow of electrons mainly from burning coal, and at the end of the day, all these electronic systems are the largest toxic group created by man. Until recently, there was very little information, if it had, over the cycle Life digital media. "
" Sadly, the paper printing has been seen as inefficient, it generates a lot of waste and also destructive to the environment, without thinking that in fact a lot of printed material is comparatively more benign and also where there is much material recyclable. Also, printing on paper has an incredible potential to be a more sustainable than it currently is. Without doubting the importance of printed media in business, government and society, these have taken the role of the old devil in decline. Digital media has taken the role of being the bright young man who appears at dawn . "
" Ironically, the future of digital media and e-book readers, is based on flexible polymer electronics, which are manufactured using printing presses instead of manufacturing technology of silicon semiconductors. In fact, the next generation of digital readers will print and digital. "
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