http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/ Engadget Comments for Study finds Kindle more eco-friendly than actual books, maybe http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
Unless you plan to DONATE your Kindle to the local library where the Kindle will be used hundreds of times by many people as opposed to just thrown in the trash for good when the next iPod ..um Kindle comes out next year..

Nub.]]>Aug 28th 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
Because before the advent of the intertenning and E-mails were all sending each other written mail informing each other of why DD size tits are fun. and where to go to get your manhood stretched by 12 inches... ALso the duchess was all ways writing me to tell me that I won $1000,000,000,000 britich pounds...

Yes save emails is it?

darn noobs...]]>Aug 28th 2009 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
ShuttingTFU!]]>Aug 28th 2009 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
Considering that the Kindle can go a week or more on a single battery charge, I don't think that you need to worry too much about its impact from electricity use.]]>Aug 28th 2009 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
Books are usually passed on not just read once by one person.... paper is wood > growing wood produces oxygen

plastics heavy metals etc are not good for the environment no matter how you spin it :nonono:]]>Aug 29th 2009 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
"The Kindle can't be environmentally friendly, because it's actually quite nice. That would be decadent and capitalist."]]>Aug 29th 2009 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 29th 2009 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 30th 2009 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
did you consider that paper companies dont grow the wood, but rather chop down existing trees? even if they did grow the trees, to leave the trees there and let them continually produce oxygen rather than chopping it as soon as it gets mature enough to produce enough oxygen to be significant would be more environmentally friendly. or the fact that chopping those trees, and their conversion process into paper uses up a lot more resources than downloading an e book onto a device. or maybe the fact that if a book is thrown away and not properly recycled, that paper eventually releases carbon upon decomposition.

maybe you'd even get into really large details and get into transportations of trees, papers, books, the resources taken by lumber mills, paper manufacturing plants, publishing houses, and bookstores.

think before you post.]]>Dec 12th 2009 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
that includes the CO2 made in:

the production of the kindle?
the production of the books?
the advertising of the kindle?
the powering of the kindle?
the loss of trees that fix CO2? (fixation means turning it into something organic)
the energy that goes into all the aforementioned processes?

in my opinion, anything electrical will always create a worse impact on the environment that something mechanical that does the same thing.. that doesn't stop me though.. people have to stop doing business using the environment as a plus.. chances are, they are lying or oblivious to the actual reprecussions of their products..]]>Jul 1st 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
Then I realized (a) I'm an asshole (b) anyone that buys a Kindle is very likely to read three books a month. Very cool findings.]]>Aug 28th 2009 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
Wow, bitter any? It's not like reading a book a week is some great feet, which is why I pointed out the simple fact that 3 books a month is not some astronomically unachievable goal. Get over yourself, twerp.]]>Aug 28th 2009 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
Feet? I didn't know reading involved feet.]]>Aug 29th 2009 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
to hold the book]]>Aug 30th 2009 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Considerning they promote recycling books, I don't trust their science.

It takes more carbon to recycle a book than to burn it, and that cycle can only happen once, and results in an inferior product.

Want your somehow-ruined book to have no carbon impact? Bury individual pages 4cm under the soil in a moist area. Worms eat it. Worms shit it.]]>Aug 28th 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
You're telling me that once you're done with a book, you go out and buy it again? I can understand replacing it if it's worn out, but by that time you've got the carbon footprint of three books on your hands if you recycle it; one for the initial buy, one for the recycled book, and one for the new book... For shame Destian!

Won't someone please think of the children?!]]>Aug 28th 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 30th 2009 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 29th 2009 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 29th 2009 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 29th 2009 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 30th 2009 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
REUSE!

(I ]]>Aug 29th 2009 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
A bit on the green-washing rhetorical side, like everything that's marketed as "green" nowadays, but interesting nonetheless.]]>Aug 28th 2009 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
You sure about that? Afterall, people have to get to the library first rather than simply having a digital book delivered electronically. Then copies if everyone actually started using libraries instead of bookstores or e-readers the libraries would need quite a few copies of new popular books or the entire system would break down.]]>Aug 28th 2009 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
Similar to how you don't chop down a hundred trees to make one book, one cargo doesn't transport a single hard drive or CPU, so the impact is split, but it's still very much there and shouldn't be left out of the equation.]]>Aug 28th 2009 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
However, based on my understanding, I never understood why people think that getting rid of books will somehow help the tree population. Paper companies use "tree farms" ... in other words, paper production does not come from trees from your favorite park.

Paper companies also plant *more* trees each year then they cut down. The last I read, about 87% of the trees planted were used for paper.

So, naturally, if we all decided never to use paper again, the decrease in demand would cause *fewer* trees to be planted. The demand for paper over all these years actually sparked the growth in the number of trees in this country.

Again, I love the Kindle and prefer it to paper books...but if one really cares about increasing the number of trees planted each year, you're better off buying a paper book and keep demand strong for paper products. ]]>Aug 28th 2009 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Dec 6th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/I realize this is an old article, but the quote was on the front page of engadget. What people don't realize is that we NEED CO2 to survive. Without it, it would be too cold here for human existance. Oh any by the way, only 3% of the world's CO2 comes from humans.
The majority of it comes from Valcanoes, and decaying plants.
So, by NOT cutting down trees, and letting them decay, this would actually cause MORE CO2 -- not that it matters anyways. CO2 has nothing to do with global warming. People are so ignorant it's obscene.]]>Jan 21st 2010 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/ride my bicycle? isnt a bike made of Minable metal?]]>Feb 12th 2010 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
The masses are stupid because they cannot see beyond these studies.]]>Aug 28th 2009 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
Okay, maybe not me, but talk about raking up that carbon credit karma.]]>Aug 28th 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/Aug 28th 2009 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/study-finds-kindle-more-eco-friendly-than-actual-books-maybe/
The Kindle breaks after just reading 22.5 books! Must be made in China...

(I think I read that with an inserted comma in there - "They also found that the Kindle would still break, even if it replaced just 22.5 books"...)

:)]]>Aug 28th 2009 7:16PM