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This infographic does not address...

Where are the environmental damage statistics for mining and refining the materials used in the construction of the average device? Those have longer lasting effects than the harvesting of trees for...

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Where is the 'Features' comparison Infograph

We need it NOW. It's almost Holiday / Gift giving season and I really need a comprehensive (Features) comparison chart for all of the (TABLET) products available. The market is now (IMHO) flooded with...

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Great report Sonja, but a couple of things missed:

1. LED lights are much more environmentally friendly and really taking over now, as well as being much safer to use than the CFLs are.Also the paper in printed books can be recycled into new books...

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Good point!

I've read other articles espousing the "green" aspect of going paperless in regards to using electronic devices, and few touch on the aspect of what do we do with the old devices. Sort of like not...

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Regarding the e-waste issue

The fact that Apple and Samsung are offering discounts if you exchange your outdated tablet for a new one is nice and exchange programs have been in place for some time; however, the discount is not...

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Something amusing I noticed

First, was that it was apple/mac/i-item across the board for the comparisons for CO2 use, etc... There are obviously many others. But what makes me find it so amusing, is when compared to the comments...

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Not the whole picture

This article does not seem to take into account the 1000's of litres of water used in the mining, manufacture,transportation and selling of a device. Although the figures are not current, an article...

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CO2 emissions

These comments and this article are interesting since they all seem to accept the premise that humans cause carbon emissions that are damaging the planet. Words like "sustainability" are part of the...

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Unproven?

The vast majority of the climatologist community disagrees with you but you know better ... right?!

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Is it really eco friendly?

How many printed books does it take to match the environmental damage caused by creating one tablet?How many books will the average tablet prevent printing? I'd guess between 0-1 for most people.

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There is a VERY BIG difference between what some scientist who have only

spent the last few years studying the climate as shown in the human met bureau reports for the last 200 plus years who claim the majority of the co2 emissions and planetary damage is done by man; and...

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Human caused global warming is almost a scientific consensus

"Scientists do not disagree about human-caused global warming. It is the ruling paradigm of climate science, in the same way that plate tectonics is the ruling paradigm of geology. We know that...

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and yet the scientist who have been studying global climate for decade

claim and have records to prove that humans are NOT the major factors in global warming. In fact there is human evidence that the world was much warmer than it is today in at least two periods in the...

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Why should I believe that scientist and not the 33 thousand scientists ...

... that published 99.8% of the scientific articles on the subject over the last two decades?

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mayve the fact he has the evidence from decades of close study, while

the others are going from only a couple of hundred years of a few written records and ignoring the over a thousand years of written records that disagree with what they want the answer to be!!

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