Textbooks consume tons of paper from trees we will not have to chop down when education switches to using online — paperless — learning resources. Making schooling green will help importantly in the cause of this poster image from Conservation International.
Perhaps this idea has been advocated on college campuses and in school administrations. Perhaps it has not seemed practical until recently to actually quit printing textbooks — mainly because the computer knowledge-delivery technology was not yet fully developed. But now the switch can be made with not only the more than equivalent delivery of what is in the books. Paperless textbooks will save money, save the kids’ lower backs, and save the trees.
