Re: sustainable swag

Thanks, David:

> I remember this story was
> widely reported in the news
> media when the book was
> published last year. The book
> is available on Amazon.co.uk -
> seehttp://amzn.to/axij60

I've not been able to get through yet, but I'll have another go later 
today.

> BTW, I am always amuse when
> I see the statement "printed
> on recycled paper" on the PDF
> electronic version of a book.

Yes.

I suppose it should be amended to read: "Please print this on recycled 
paper." <bg>

... And if we ever manage to figure out some recommendations, we could 
add a link to "recycled paper" sending everyone to a Web page with a 
table & reports listing the pros and cons of various recycled paper 
stocks, colored and not, for use with various printers, etc. ... and 
maybe even an interactive database where folks in the trade can record 
their experiences with the different paper stocks.... <bg>

(Just dreaming, of course, but this sort of thing is very much on my 
wish list!)

David's comment about PDFs also raises interesting issues about "which 
is greener?": e-publication or printed matter?

I'm thinking here of digital photo albums (not Flickr, etc., but the 
wooden frames with glass that you plug into the wall) vs. printing 
your own photos for display with an inkjet vs. the old-fashioned 
action of sending your film/slides out for developing.

I suppose one of these days we'll all be able to display a dynamic 
photo montage on a living room wall made of super-efficient e-paper, 
or something. But we're far from those sorts of efficiencies, now.

Digital photo albums were widely advertised over here with the usual 
claim about all the trees you would be saving should you buy one 
(disclosure: we did in fact buy one of these for my mother-in-law, who 
likes to have family pix on display), but there are also big issues 
about all the electronic devices we're plugging in everywhere, 
including our homes, some of which never turn off, and which are quite 
costly to run.

... Which is one of the problems with electric cars in their present 
form, too. We simply don't have the infrastructure in the States for 
*everyone* to be plugging in their cars at night ... and I'm not sure 
this ever really will be possible on such a grand scale.

Deborah
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Deborah Taylor-Pearce
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