The American Consumer Institute, for example, has estimated that the Internet will save the world from approximately one billion tons of carbon emissions in the next ten years. This number can be broken down into the following carbon footprint-reducing features: · eCommerce will reduce emissions by 206 million tons of carbon, mainly in the form of

A $50 hard drive with a capacity of 150 gigabytes has the equivalent storage capacity of 70 filing cabinets, which cost about $35,000 and need a space of about 1100 square feet (or 102 m2).

Furthermore, a paperless way of reading, researching and completing assignments would provide all the flexibilities mentioned in this book to both students and teachers.

My first step toward paperlessness was to stop reading research reports in printed format on paper, but instead reading them directly from the screen. Incrementally I would get better and better at it, to the point now of now finding it easier and more natural to read from a screen than from paper.

Two-gigabyte hard drive space can hold information equivalent to paper documents that would require a four-drawer filing cabinet.

there is a persistent myth that paper is superior to ICT applications,

Easy editing of documents also leads to the printing of multiple versions of the same document.

Taking exams and correcting and scoring exams, in addition to the teacher’s administrative work, would become much more effective when done in a paperless manner.

I gradually became 100 percent paperless, and now I only use paper when I am required to by regulations or the law.