Gadgets Creating the Paperless Home
Monday, February 11, 2008 at 07:22AM 
(click image for full size rendering) I missed this one in the The New York Times but caught it over at TreeHugger, it’s the paperless home and all the digital gadgets that are replacing print and production. I work paperless and most everything I do is digital these days so the trend is intriguing to me.
The downside of paperless, mentioned by Lloyd over at TH and NYT, is that the trade off for consuming less natural resources for paper production is an increase in energy required to run all the digital gadgets like laptops, digital cameras and digital picture frames. More food for thought, an increase in consumer electronics use brings up other issues, like e-waste.
An interesting note is that the NYT reported that homes are going paperless faster than businesses. I would think it would be the opposite but apparently not. Do you go paperless? If so, is it at home or at the office?
Did you miss the Greener Gadgets conference? Catch the highlights here.
Via TreeHugger Via New York Times