Kordax
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Hank Rearden
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Post by Kordax on Apr 21, 2007 10:05:13 GMT -5
Earth Day is Sunday which means that perpetually guilty local enviro-preppies will be scrambling for something meaningful to say or do (that will prominently identify them) to save the earth from man-made global climate change.
THIS FORUM IS ABLE TO HELP SOLVE THEIR CONCERNS.
What is the energy/carbon footprint of communicating & socializing online compared with reading real paper newspapers (huge level of energy consumed in paper making process, antique distribution system, waste disposal of used papers, etc.), and consuming needless fossil fuels just to visit someone somewhere else (wasteful gasoline demand, unnecessary CO2 emissions, wear & tear on roads, etc.)?
Everyone in the region who wants to off-set their carbon appetite could be given an official Green Team Forum Credit for every $100 transferred to Gary. Keep your paper newspaper, keep driving all over at will, just pay the money to this carbon-neutral forum & get rid of the guilt ....
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Post by daworm on Apr 23, 2007 7:37:38 GMT -5
Steel cases, plastic front panels, silicon wafers, copper wire, gold pads, lithium batteries, phosphors in CRTs... PC's aren't the most eco-friendly devices. A lot of paper comes from tree farms nowadays, which are renewable.
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Post by gridbug on Apr 23, 2007 11:43:03 GMT -5
What is this crazy talk of paper newspapers? They still make those?
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Jay
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Captain Cupcake
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Post by Jay on Apr 23, 2007 18:31:30 GMT -5
Yah, if we're going to do so bad w/ computers, the least we can do is to read all our news online so we kill less trees
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