photo credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955) On one level, the discussion over the environmental impact of ebooks and ebook readers, as compared to traditional books, is a little like the medieval discussions over [...]
Entries Tagged as 'recycling'
Calculating the environmental impact of ebooks
September 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · e-readers, electronic publishing, sustainability
Tags: ebooks·Kindle·recycling·sustainability
Obsolete e-readers, out-of-date computer books
August 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · e-readers, electronic publishing, recycling
I devoted a good portion of this cloudy, humid Sunday morning digging through the attic, collecting and boxing ancient electronics gear to take to the recycling center on Monday. Ancient, in these days of accelerating product releases, is anything more than about six years old. If you’re talking about cell phones or MP3 players, you [...]
Tags: e-readers·ebooks·iPad·mobile devices·publishing·recycling·waste
