Curious: Do people find value in reading increment? I've tried reading it a few times but have often found it to be too many words for too little deep insight. Would love to be convinced otherwise though.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
1% or less of your carbon footprint is from your consumption of paper products. https://twosidesna.org/US/our-carbon-footprint-how-do-paper-...
There's more to pollution than just carbon, and that's an industry advocacy group's website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_paper > discarded paper and paperboard make up roughly 26% of solid municipal solid waste in landfill sites > In the United States the pulp and paper industry released about 79, 000 tonnes or about 5% of all industrial pollutant releases in 2015... > Worldwide, the pulp an…
You're right that it's about more than just carbon, and looking at it purely from a carbon footprint might be the wrong perspective. I was considering climate change to be the most urgent of our environmental issues and in terms of impact to climate change paper production is insignificant.
That being said, an individual reducing their consumption of paper based products is arguably the least impactful action we can take as a society.
Instead we should be focusing on the packaging industry's use of onetime use packaging for products, particularly those that are difficult or impossible to recycle (e.g. milk cartons, juice boxes, etc). This is not only a huge contributor to paper pollution but also micro-plastics pollution and landfill waste in general.
Greater Container-deposit legislation on more products (e.g. plastic bottles) and on limited use but highly recyclable paper goods (e.g. newspapers and magazines) would greatly increase the amount of recycling we do as well.
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#33Airbnb did something like this back when I worked there. Not sure what came of it. I do remember seeing some copies of it sitting on coffee tables throughout the office.
It's still going, I see it on newsstands
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#34Unrelated: I do a digital magazine too, people can download the PDF. I'd love to give the people to opportunity to buy a printed copy if they want to (and maybe do some profit on the side). I think that's a good SaaS idea: upload your magazine in PDF and let the startup do everything, from pritning to shipping, and get a cut on that.
My gut says that this must already exist.
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#35Unrelated: I do a digital magazine too, people can download the PDF. I'd love to give the people to opportunity to buy a printed copy if they want to (and maybe do some profit on the side). I think that's a good SaaS idea: upload your magazine in PDF and let the startup do everything, from pritning to shipping, and get a cut on that.
My gut says that this must already exist.
I can't think of the name of the service, but yes it did exist around 2003ish. I don't know if it's still around.
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#36Unrelated: I do a digital magazine too, people can download the PDF. I'd love to give the people to opportunity to buy a printed copy if they want to (and maybe do some profit on the side). I think that's a good SaaS idea: upload your magazine in PDF and let the startup do everything, from pritning to shipping, and get a cut on that.
Isn’t that the definition of a publisher? They publish your content in a chosen format and you get a cut of the profits?
Either way, Amazon, for instance, has a service for publishing books.
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(I work at Stripe.) We've made sure the process is carbon-neutral from forest to page. (And the paper itself is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.)
That's great, but paper's pollution footprint is far larger than mere carbon output. There's so much focus on climate change that people forget a bucket of mercury is carbon-neutral but still not great to pour in a lake. Someone elsewhere in the discussion asks for a Kindle edition; that'd be a great way to keep unnecessary paper down.
Strip mine the land for more minerals for more never-decomposing plastic devices with chemical batteries?
I'd rather have the dead trees, thanks.
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#38Unrelated: I do a digital magazine too, people can download the PDF. I'd love to give the people to opportunity to buy a printed copy if they want to (and maybe do some profit on the side). I think that's a good SaaS idea: upload your magazine in PDF and let the startup do everything, from pritning to shipping, and get a cut on that.
This is mostly what Blurb (https://www.blurb.com) does!
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah right, tilling arable lands and pulping more trees isn't a problem at all. Whatever happened to critical thinking.
> tilling arable lands and pulping more trees So you're arguing against using crop land to produce a crop?
Moving the goalpost much? Clever but not constructive at all.
Producing crop for food supplies is not the same thing as producing crop for transmission of blob of text. The former is critical for human survival whereas the latter is totally undesirable. Especially now that we have a well permeated web to distribute books on, we don't need anyone to sow or reap the trees anymore. Period.
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#40People have been saying "print is dead" for almost a century now, and somehow it hasn't happened.
I read an article a couple of months ago which stated that magazine subscriptions are up, and so is printed catalog distribution and sales from those catalogs.
Anecdotally, subscribing to Apple News only whetted my wife's appetite for the printed versions of the magazines she sees on her iPhone. She's since subscribed to the print versions of three of them.
We were at the rodeo one day and one of the magazines had a booth. I mentioned to the people from the magazine that my wife subscribed to their publication because of Apple News, and they said they hear that a lot.
Of course, I've also read that some publishers are not happy with the revenue cut they get from Apple News, so perhaps its not right for every publisher.