How devices affect the environment

         For this blog I will be relating it off of the question, Consider the impact of personal networking devices, interns of the environment. What do you think are the biggest areas of immediate impact? How about long term? Will I believe with having personal devices it will cut down on the number of letters and post cards we send to love ones. Instead of cutting down trees to make paper for letters, post cards, and etc. we will be saving a lot of natural resources that way. According to an article Can your Computer and the Internet Help Save the Environment on www.brighthub.com. The number of tip was working digitally will save paper, its says "Only print when necessary. Computers allow you to proofread and edit multiple drafts of a document, none of which need to be printed". Not only not sending letters to friends and family, but through businesses this is huge. They are known for printing a of documents off to hand out to workers or clients. If only they would send them letter that would save so many trees.

           Going off of sending more emails instead of letter, the growing popularity of nooks and iPad for reading books. With theses devices becoming huge in the electronic department, the need for printing paper books have decreased. According to TopTenReviews, " Twenty-four trees are required to produce a ton of paper for printing books, and twelve are needed for a ton of newspaper. Thirty- five percent of those books printed are destroyed before they are even read".  Know that is a lot of paper to waste to just let some buy, but then just throw it away, not knowing if he/she will recycle the paper or not. 

         Overall, for the long term of this topic I believe that it has a great outlook. With people going to there devices to read and send letter back and forth to each other will just grow with popularity within the market. As for the use of energy with theses devices, I have a feeling that some time soon there will be a break through and a device will be able to run off natural energy from the sun or light within the building, just like the calculators back in the day. Anything is possible with the market and I can't wait to see where it goes. 

Cites

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http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/45648.aspx

http://ebook-reader-review.toptenreviews.com/going-green-with-ereaders.html
http://sellingusedelectronics.com/selling-used-electronics-help-the-environment/