Bulletin from the Rechargable Electronic Reading Council
With an e-book, you can deface the reading area to your heart's content and then simply wipe the viewing screen clean with a damp cloth.
With an e-book, you can deface the reading area to your heart's content and then simply wipe the viewing screen clean with a damp cloth.
Wired | Alexis Madrigal | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
Take an antique leather-bound book, open it up, and inhale deeply. There's just something about that old-book smell. And thanks to a new analytical ch...
Posted 11.05.2009 | Impact
Combat Paper is presenting a creative way for veterans to contextualize what they've seen in war. Their goal is to help veterans use art to reconcile ...
Renée Loux | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Understanding the "life-cycle" of any consumable good offers a fairly accurate sense of how "green" it really is -- basically, where things come from and what happens to them when we are done with them.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
Though air travel is unavoidable at times, there are a few things responsible travelers can do to make flights greener.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
While many have quickly lamented URB's print hiatus or reminisced about our long legacy, there is also an unfortunate feeding frenzy on even the hint of print's presumed, imminent demise.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green
If you're an art collector, aficionado, or appreciator, these four tips should help you shift your collection (or simply the way you see art) into a more earth-minded endeavor.
thedailygreen.com | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
Instead of buying small mountains of books, CDs, DVDs and even magazines that you barely use, check materials out of your neighborhood library, or rel...
treehugger.com | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
Ban reduced the amount of paper that rolls off the tube by making it square instead of round, so that what you take is what you really need. According...
Mother Nature Network | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green
Want to know exact amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated in the production of a single roll of toilet paper? If you're a shopper at Tesco, the ...
Posted 05.30.2009 | Green
Simple changes in manufacturing can help consumers go green. Here's a great example: By adding some perforations to a pizza box, it becomes multi-use...
Suzy Shuster | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green
Follow the lead and get rid of tribute books for any charity events or fundraisers and save yourself the headache of printers. And save some trees while you're at it.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green
True or false: The hardest thing about going green is accepting the higher cost. FALSE! The belief that going green is costly is itself a costly mis...
nytimes.com | TOM ZELLER Jr. | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green
As several of our readers pointed out, weighing the environmental and climate impacts of a physical newspaper against the impacts of its online manife...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green
As tax week comes to a close, we've all got our money on our minds, so it's the perfect time to consider how the cash we've put so much energy into earning will work to preserve our planet.
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green
NEW YORK — The publishing industry has been fitted for 20-20-20 vision. The Book Industry Environmental Council, a coalition of publishers, boo...
Mother Nature Network | Posted 04.09.2009 | Green
Of the school's 520 students, less than 10% opted to receive paper handouts, either because they prefer that form or more likely because they don't ha...
Fox News | Posted 04.04.2009 | Green
Can you tell the difference in feel between recycled toilet paper and virgin forest toilet paper? Fox News can't, but forests can. America's Newsroom...
Dave Burdick | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green
This week I'm at a big climate conference in Washington, DC, and my wonderful hosts, Rachael and Bryan, have graciously tolerated my multiplying stack...
guardian.co.uk | Suzanne Goldenberg | Posted 03.29.2009 | Green
The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country's love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or M...
Reuters | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green
HELSINKI, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Google (GOOG.O) is planning to build a data centre at the old paper mill premises in southeastern Finland that it bought ...
EcoGeek | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green
Why on earth do we still have snail mail? For packages? OK. But everything else, really? All the paper, all the transportation, all the man-hours deli...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green
Paperless media keeps growing -- the second version of the Amazon Kindle is being shown off today, and will be available to consumers on February 24. ...
Wendy Gordon | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green
The good news is paper recycling in the U.S. is on the rise, and choosing the right paper for your kitchen, bathroom or home office can help save forests and conserve energy, too.
alleyinsider.com | Nicholas Carlson | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green
Not that it's anything we think the New York Times Company should do, but we thought it was worth pointing out that it costs the Times about twice as ...
Bruce McCall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books