I drew this on my iPhone – it’s the first cartoon I’ve drawn there (although I had to resort to the laptop to add the caption – graphic app developers, please consider adding text support, ‘kay?) and I did it with Autodesk SketchBook Mobile for the iPhone and the Logiix StylusPro, a worthy competitor to the Pogo Sketch stylus I’ve been using until now.
I didn’t spend a lot of time trying to make it look pretty; what you’re seeing is the first take, and took me maybe four minutes to draw. So the iPhone turns out to be perfectly viable for quick sketches.
It’s in support of David Eaves‘ Facebook Group aimed at getting 100,000 Canadians to opt out of receiving those tree-killing, energy-burning, shelf-space-taking-up tomes known as the Yellow Pages. Here’s my blog post on the topic.
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Your cartoon may be cute, but it isn’t correct. While the popular myth is that this industry is responsible for the neutering of forests, the reality is the Yellow Pages industry doesn’t knock down any trees for its paper!!! Let me repeat that – they don’t need to cut any trees for their paper supply. Currently, on average, most publishers are using about 40% recycled material (from the newspapers and magazines you are recycling curbside), and the other 60% comes from wood chips and waste products of the lumber industry. If you take a round tree and make square or rectangular lumber from it, you get plenty of chips and other waste. Those by-products make up the other 60% of the raw material needed.
To see how paper is made, go here: http://www.yptalk.com/archive.cfm?ID=390&CatI…
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Your cartoon may be cute, but it isn’t correct. While the popular myth is that this industry is responsible for the neutering of forests, the reality is the Yellow Pages industry doesn’t knock down any trees for its paper!!! Let me repeat that – they don’t need to cut any trees for their paper supply. Currently, on average, most publishers are using about 40% recycled material (from the newspapers and magazines you are recycling curbside), and the other 60% comes from wood chips and waste products of the lumber industry. If you take a round tree and make square or rectangular lumber from it, you get plenty of chips and other waste. Those by-products make up the other 60% of the raw material needed.
To see how paper is made, go here: http://www.yptalk.com/archive.cfm?ID=390&Cat…
This comment was originally posted onGeorge Dearing dot com
thanks for the clarification..it’s encouraging to see some of the recycling stats..i’d actually be happy if I could just stop delivery to my doorstep.
This comment was originally posted onGeorge Dearing dot com
Then opt-out. Every publisher has a program for that.
This comment was originally posted onGeorge Dearing dot com
there’s not enough time in my life to opt-out with every publisher..i’ve tried in the past and it’s generally, woefully inefficient.
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