It is our duty, everyone's duty to conserve and protect the environment we live in, to use only what we need to, and not what we want to, to satisfy our daily requirements.

In order to save our forests, the best way is to get rid of all the paper trails that is churned out of our precious trees. We have to be educated of the importance of this implications through constant teaching in the main stream schools and educational institutions all around the world.

With more and more education institutions moving into online education, it is starting to see a difference in the amount of paper trash that was being generated before the onset of electronic education. But the one big leap forward for mankind to save the forests was achieved through improved technologies, technologies that have done away with paper, saving pretty much resources and improved methods of delivering of information.

Here are the big savers of our forests, programs that we used day to day without realising the significant benefits that it has brought us. Help our future generation live well and appreciate nature in their own wonders, not inside a green house.
Imagine how many trees would have gone under the axes if these technologies have not proliferated and sustain users throughout the world. It has brought on awareness and greater reach to many people at the cost...of a click on the mouse, not a flip of the page.

Top Five Technologies that save our forests:

Emails

Imagine the tons of letter paper and envelopes we have saved since the invention of emails, forget snail mails, please encourage all person you meet to use email. But PLEASE do not print out every emails you have, it defeats the whole idealogy!


Internet Websites

No more hard copy of information flow needed and constant revised editions printed for the latest updates, saving prints and paper. Instant updates 24/7 at your fingertips.

Ebooks

Softcopy of the your favourite books, all hundreds or thousands stored on your thumb drive. Can you imagine carrying a hundred books around, or saving a tree from being in the process for the printing of a hundred books....both of which are beneficial to us in everyway. Please promote the use of ebooks to everyone you know, help cut down on the needs for more fellings of more trees for our reading needs.

Ezines

Softcopy of the private/commercial information u need, save and stored on your thumb drive or PC, download from the internet. Digest the information you need and save what you want. Can you imagine how many magazines ended up in the trash barely 1 weeks after it was bought? After you have the required information, magazines are often redundant, not worth keeping as hard cover books. Please promote the use of ezines to everyone you know, help cut down on the needs for more fellings of more trees for our reading needs.

Online Newspapers

Softcopy of the private/commercial information u need, save and stored on your thumb drive or PC, download from the internet. Digest the inforamtion you need and save what you want. Can you imagine how many tons of newspapers ended up in the trash barely 1 day after it was bought? After you have the required information, newspapers are often trashed. Please promote the reading of online Newspapers to everyone you know, help cut down on the needs for more fellings of more trees for our reading needs.