Ipad-- Environmentalists Dream

[yodaxl7]

Since publishers are bringing their newspapers, textbooks, magazines, etc. This can reduce our need for paper.

 

[CylonGlitch]

Since publishers are bringing their newspapers, textbooks, magazines, etc. This can reduce our need for paper.

Sure and ups our electronic toxins. since most newspapers, textbooks, magazines, etc use recycled paper, it is probably a wash.

 

[Ljohnson72]

Sure and ups our electronic toxins. since most newspapers, textbooks, magazines, etc use recycled paper, it is probably a wash.

Energy is still used to recycle, ship, & print the paper, and then send it to the reseller/buyer.

 

[Sketh]

Sure and ups our electronic toxins. since most newspapers, textbooks, magazines, etc use recycled paper, it is probably a wash.

The iPad does have pretty high Environmental Rating, though.

 

[MikhailT]

Since publishers are bringing their newspapers, textbooks, magazines, etc. This can reduce our need for paper.

Check out this report by a group that analyzed how much of an impact that the ebook readers will have on the environment.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10320334-54.html

..production of a Kindle produces 168 kilograms of carbon dioxide compared to 7.46 kilograms for a book..
...A user that purchasers fewer than 22.5 books per year would take longer to neutralize the emissions resulting from the e-reader, and even longer to help reduce emissions attributed to the publishing industry...

There's always a catch to anything that's environmental friendly, in this case, the cost of producing those electronics can offset all the "green" credits that it supposedly gives due to the "dirty" manufacturing and logical work such as shipping around the world on "dirty" planes/trucks/ships.


iPad/Kindles/ebooks is definitely more friendly to the environment than the books and will become more friendly over time as the manufacturing itself will become more greener.