life, by me

Today I have spent the day at a conference in London titled 'Can publishing save the planet?' - I found it quite thought provoking, but also pretty daunting and scary.  I have believed for a while now that it is important to save the worlds resources, therefore try and encourage the use of recycled paper at work in the office, however I did not know until today the complexities of such actions.  There are many different types and grades of recycled paper, an accreditation (much like the Fairtrade Foundation accreditation) to say that the trees have come from a sustainable forest and use a certain amount of recycled fibre in the pulp.  Then there is the issue of how to do you get the paper to you...where does it come from, and what is the environmental impact of this?  Then there was another stat about whether it was more environmentally friendly to produce a newspaper article online or in print...and apparently if somebody spends 30 minutes reading an article(s) on the computer, this is more damaging to the environment than the process of a paper being printed and somebody owning a copy of the paper - however if they are only reading it for 10 mins, then it is more environmentally friendly to access the article(s) digitally....basically I have come away from the conference today confused!  Some things to think about in any case, it just appears to me to be a lose lose situation.

Anyway, I am now back in Lincoln and attempting to book my travel insurance for forthcoming trip - but my computers memory is low so I am in the process of deleting the cookies to free up some space...ooh, looks like I am done...night