The Grey Badger ([info]idiotgrrl) wrote,
@ 2008-04-27 17:21:00
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Which is the more ecologically sound book purchase? The huge hardbacked survey of everything that's wrong with the world, in it's own slipcase and with a foreword by Al Gore? Or the used mass-market paperback edition of "The Virtue of Selfishness?"

Who is conserving fuel? The student with a vast collection of "student ghetto tupperware" in her kitchen cabinets? Or the one who got a piece of real hand-crafted Native pottery on her latest trip to the Rez?

Who has the smaller carbon footprint? The guy who lives off the grid in the middle of the desert and feeds his wife and kids from their vegetable garden and free-range goats? Or the guy who lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment in a Central Avenue high-rise?


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green, green books of home
[info]excessiveperky
2008-04-28 02:43 pm UTC (link)
And then there's the many, many cyberbooks (including the Vicomte de Bragelonne which undoubtedly murdered a forest or two in its time) resting comfortably on my Palm Tungsten E2 (which alas is _also_ resting comfortably at the computer shop downtown because it doesn't want to turn on, waaah! And it has my financial calculator/time vs. money program on it, which I will _definitely_ need for the chapter on long term payables we start this week. Do NOT want to have to blow $30 at Wally World for one, sigh).

Ahem. But I can read all these books, many of which are out of print, quite nicely on the little screen.

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[info]akaihyo
2008-05-27 02:36 pm UTC (link)
Nicely formulated. After all, everything in life is a trade off.

I ship a fair number of books, for example, I wrap most of the books I sell in reused plastic bags from our shopping. Keeps them safe and provide some protection against water and such.

And I recycle what I can easily, especially metals, and try to make sure others do the same for metals.

But there is only so much time and I am not going to cripple my lifestyle in the name of someone else's idea of "sustainability" (especially as they do not seem to be putting much effort into it).

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