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Save the planet: (Don’t) print this article

Friday, December 16th, 2011

We’ve all seen the little messages at the foot of e-mails urging us to ‘save the planet’ by reducing unnecessary printing. The wonders of technology now mean we can send written communications to each other while avoiding the environmental impacts of producing paper and ink and using the energy needed for printing.

Hang on a minute though. Are paper copies necessarily a bad thing? How do we know technology is ‘greener’?
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