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We Have Seen the Future and it is Paperless

by Rossland Telegraph on 23 Jun 2008
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Here are the facts. The average North American consumes about 120 pounds of paper each year. Rosslanders consume close to a half a million pounds of paper per year: 240 tons of paper and newsprint. If that sounds bad, then hold onto your cardboard coffee cup. It gets worse. Here's a list of the resources that go into our 240 ton millstone: • 480 cords of wood • 26 million gallons of water • 2 500 lbs of sulphur • 84 000 lbs of lime • 69 000 lbs of clay • 280 tons of coal • 26 000 kilowat hours of electricity • a quarter ton of dye and pigment. And most of this paper, the newsprint portion especially, makes the short, lonely trip from mailbox to recycling bin without even being read. There’s simply no reason, no imaginable justification for wasting our resources this way. The Rossland Telegraph is a step in the right direction.

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And if that isn't enough,

by Anonymous on 01 Oct 2008 at about 23:51.
And if that isn't enough, don't forget that you get to further marginalize all of those pesky old people and computer illiterates

Sorry to disappoint

by Adrian Barnes on 02 Oct 2008 at about 08:58.
Well, exactly. Here at the Telegraph we're driven by a pathological need to marginalize the elderly. We're thinking of putting it on our masthead: 'The Rossland Telegraph: Marginalizing the Elderly Since 2008'. Actually, although the idea of excluding our elders from public life is a fine one, you might be saddened to learn that we are hoping to address your very legitimate concern constructively, and not just through our mastery of the dark art of sarcasm. We are considering several options to extend our reach beyond the smug, hemp-bound world of the cyber-savvy: placing five or six printed copies of the week's news in several accessible places (cafes, etc) in town, investigating the possibility of public web access with the Telegraph as the home page, etc. We'll keep our readership informed as things progress and acknowledge the fact that we need to be accessible to all Rosslanders. Time and technology march on and we all have to adapt. My own mother just took up the Internet at the age of seventy after she retired and moved to a small town: it allows her to keep up with old colleagues and friends and now she's thrilled with her new computer (after a decade of saying she'd never give it a try!). Thanks for raising a good point--ed.