Return to Nature
After I finish PhD I should plant and take care of at least 100 trees to compensate the amount of wasted paper.
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# posted by romka,
Friday, August 28, 2009
15:15
definitely man! why wait for the end of your phd?
good wish, good luck ;)
Interesting. Do you maybe have some links about how to calculate it?
Good comment, Guoda. These 100 trees was a wild guess. I found that from a good big tree one can get from 8000 till 11000 of A4 sheets. If during 5 years of my PhD me and all my supervisors print my paper of 12 pages on both sides twice a week we get 9360 pages. So this means I have to grow just one big tree or 2, to be sure.
what about all the papers you had to print and read in order to prepare your own work?
I counted them in and they are not so many - just two big folders. I am mostly reading wikipedia, mathworld, and the books from the library.
Once you've planted a tree, it's time to level up - start building a house!:-)
Two jokes about that (in Russian, unfortunately untranslatable):
"Настоящий мужчина в жизни должен сделать три вещи: посадить печень, построить тёщу и вырастить живот."
"Настоящий кавказец в жизни должен сделать три вещи: посадить дерево, построить дом и вырастить сына, и всё это в Москве."
U didn't consider that the "wasted" paper is actually reused.