38 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Reduce Your Newsprint Footprint”

  2. So this makes me a “greeny”?
    I’m in a turmoil of emotions.
    Since its the 7th on the list does that make us all 007 secret agents for the Gaea cult?
    I wonder what the MSM has to say about it?
    HAHAHAHAHA
    Thanks Kate, what a great laugh to start Sunday with.

  3. THe red deer advocate is given away free with every morning drive through order at local macdonald’s restaurants and has been for sometime now.
    It’s much thinner than it used to be – far fewer ads and much less content. I don’t see how this give away strategy is going to boost subscriptions.
    Meanwhile the two weekly free papers land on my doorstep swollen with flyers …

  4. On the same page, they have the 100-mile diet thing… wouldn’t that destroy the economies of those small underdeveloped nations to that rely on producing and exporting their fruits and vegetables to markets across the world?
    Are they to be trod underfoot as we move to relieve our guilt about carbon consumption? Is the leftist goal to not only have the majority of individual citizens reliant on handouts from the government, but also the majority of nations reliant on the UN?
    I think we all know the answer to that is “Well, duh.”

  5. “Is the leftist goal to not only have the majority of individual citizens reliant on handouts from the government, but also the majority of nations reliant on the UN?”
    The Leftist goal is to radically reduce the number of individual citizens period.
    Most of us are here to serve each other, the Leftist elites only need enough of us to serve them.

  6. I am way, way ahead of the “Greenies” – canceled all newsprint two decades ago !

  8. Have to admit I still have a Post subscription. It’s one of my dwindling sinless pleasures to park outside with cup of joe and David Frum’s column on one of Calgary’s dozen or so nice days every year.
    To paraphrase Steve Janke, the green-red’s goal is to have us living in the smallest possible space, eating the bare minimum to survive, and taking only the most crucial trips.
    So enjoy a bit of consumption while you can. The big Zero and some mini-me Zero in Canada may soon be prying your paper from your fingers.

  9. I don’t even use newspaper for painting drop sheets anymore.
    However now that it’s a greenie commandment I’m tempted to get a National Post subscription. Just to serve notice, y’know.

  10. “7. Cancel your newspaper subscription and read the news on the Internet.”
    What is really significant in that – the Media’s captive audience “power of the pen’ thing is no more. The population will still be able to read the media’s dumbed-down version on line, but with a simple click of the mouse – sda and others. The real story.

  11. The Law Of Unintended Consequences
    The Print Media pushes the eco-fanatics agenda.
    The eco-fanatics call for the elimination of print.

  12. I have had, of and on, the National Post delivered to me, but always end up canceling when they tried pushing the envelope by the use of certain “sophisticated” terms which you and I might call swearing. Now I’m not a prude, but I don’t think this stuff should be forced into my home.
    The NP is a conservative paper run by liberals,
    but they have some of the best minds at work for them; many of them Jewish. That said I tire of reading of the events of what happened to the Jews 65 years ago. I also tire of a letters page filled with an inordinate number of Jewish respon-
    dents. Of course I bought it for the first section
    and its commentary, and threw out the rest. I don’t think that makes me an anti-Semite, if others think so, so be it.

  13. In the midst of reading Churchill’s biography.
    On his first visit to Canada he remarked to his son, “Fancy cutting down those beautiful trees we saw this afternoon to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation”.
    It appears Sir Winston had a keen eye for the future.

  14. I think Sir Winston’s remarks about the current state of afairs would not be about trees.
    I think they would resemble Christopher Moncton’s
    “the best solution to a non-existant problem is to do nothing.”
    Remember one of the “one”s first acts was to eject Sir Winston’s bust from the White House.

  15. The Law Of Unintended Consequences
    The Print Media pushes the eco-fanatics agenda.
    The eco-fanatics call for the elimination of print.
    Posted by: ron in kelowna at June 28, 2009 11:36 AM
    Karma can be a cruel mistress, can she not? >:)

  17. Gee of the media based climate change hysterics saw that one coming … at least we won’t have to read them anymore … if you ever did. The amonut of print they’ve wasted on this subject could have saved even more trees.

  18. Ya missed the point Sasquatch.
    Emphasis on the “bloody newspapers” part. Not the trees.

  19. When I lived in the UK, I used to get the weekend editions of The Daily Telegraph, The Times and Le Figaro (direct to my newsagents’ from Paris that very morning!). Nothing better than lying in bed on Saturday morning working through the sections.
    Occasionally I’d get a weekday Daily Telegraph to read while having a coffee at (where else?) Starbucks.
    Having returned to Canada, I follow a similar routine, limiting my papers to the Saturday National Post and the Mop and Pail.
    Like Bart F., I’ll pick up a Post once in a while during the week to read with my coffee at Starbucks (I’ll buy a Globe only if the Post isn’t available).
    The Daily Telegraph is now my home page so it’s the first thing I look at when I open up on the net.
    And therein lies the rub for the newspaper companies; I just don’t need their print editions every day.

  20. And therein lies the rub for the newspaper companies; I just don’t need their print editions every day.
    Posted by: JJM at June 28, 2009 3:13 PM
    I don’t need there BS propaganda ever.
    Mind you once in a while I will sit at a coffee shop and edit a paper then leave it for the next guy. snicker snicker.

  21. I still get the paper Saturday and Sunday from the corner store. I do the crosswords while waiting in the car for the wife…

  22. Saw a news report today (forget where; damn!) that the Netherlands are going to make people pay two pounds each to compensate the online news providers. This is in addition to the 8 million pounds the government already gives ’em to do the news online.
    I doubt that will work. People will still go for the free stuff, like the non-MSM news sites. The online advertising revenue ought to be sufficient. Ad prices could rise and be competitive and so on and so forth, a la the free market. Don’t know if there needs to be subscriber fees for access. Probably not.
    By the way, I must admit that getting all my news online at home has significantly shrunken my social life, much of which revolved around getting a paper somewhere, and sitting in public places reading it over the coffee, with folks I know coming over to chat… Sure, I could do it again if I wanted, but the National Post is gone from my market, plus I now work in an industrial park away from the malls and the uptown, so…

  24. The MSM TV media is no better, just because it’s a different medium, the lack of reporting is just as bad, if not worse. They are repeaters, not reporters.
    Case in point, this morning, Global BC has a warm and fuzzy story on solar power, with a project coming to completion on the Sooke native reserve, west of Victoria…..OK, your radar should be going off already for two reasons.
    One—Sooke is not exactly known as a sunny spot here in southern Vancouver Island. If it’s not the grey fall/winter/spring that they have (their rainfall is triple Victoria’s!), it’s the fact that it is nice and foggy there a good portion of the time as well.
    Two—And who exactly paid for this project? It wasn’t exactly the Sooke first nation, although, for a moment, the money passed into, and out of, their account. No, it was you and me, hard working overtaxed Canadians that paid for this ridiculous project.
    I have nothing against solar power, however, it must be situated in a geographically strategic location, not somewhere like Sooke.
    The costs were NEVER mentioned, nor the return/savings, or time to pay off the investment.
    What is wrong with the news media today? Are they afraid of doing their real jobs? Asking tough, but necessary questions? Or is it more important to be a ‘personality’?

  25. Gord Tulk wrote: “Meanwhile the two weekly free papers land on my doorstep swollen with flyers …”
    The same happens here, with two semi-local papers. The editor of our truly local paper is a Chiding Mommy. Everybody MUST go green, refrain from public spitting, behave with decorum at all-candidates’ forums, wash behind the ears, and pick up after oneself. Ride your bikes and recycle or else, kids!
    Not a word about her paper, bulging with flyers that end up in the landfill.

  26. DanBC, the news media today is all about advocacy for liberal causes.
    That’s what struck me while reading a Globe and Mail piece last night, on the Harper gov’t diverting foreign aid funds from Malawi to countries with better trade reciprocity and cultural familiarity. Many journalists appear to have personal investments of some sort in their topics.

  28. Well, I really like my National Post – not just for the news, but also for George Jonas, Conrad Black, and the crossword.
    What I really dislike is the free publications – like Metro and FastForward – people have a glance at a few articles – and then pitch it in the trash, or on the ground, etc etc.

  29. In Ontario, a hundred plus of those local newspapers full of flyers are owned by Torstar.

  30. I still get the paper Saturday and Sunday from the corner store. I do the crosswords while waiting in the car for the wife…
    ~Texas Canuck at June 28, 2009 3:50 PM
    Treat yourself to a crossword puzzle book, it’ll save you money and you won’t be patronizing some Leftist mouthpiece who is trying to sell you and others on the destruction of your way of life.

  32. I wish I could get the National Post again. It is no longer available in this region. I only think about being green when occasionally I have a weak moment and have to decide whether to slum and buy a Globe and Mail or wait and see what is newsworthy online.

  33. I enjoy recieving my free community newspaper 2x a week. I just can not find the type of stories online that are in my community news. The online version does not offer the human interest stories, or other announcements I need to know to assist at risk persons in the community who often do not have access to the internet. I especially enjoy the letters to the editor that give me a good indication for how my community feels on a number of issues that matter only to us.
    Mind you I do not live in a large municipality where newspapers are blatently biased one way or the other politically.
    I would miss our free community newspaper if it were to fold as I fear it may – down to 2x as opposed to 4x a week a few years ago.

  34. I don’t mind the free community newspapers that are delivered four times weekly, but DO mind the big box stores’flyers that far outweigh the paper.
    We get about 50 or 60 flyers a week, filling a large laundry hamper we use for a recycling bin, and there is plenty of duplication by Can Tire,Wal-Mart,Zellers,Jysk,all the grocery chains, tire stores,glossies from Shaw and Rogers, and a few one page local flyers.
    I figure we receive and recycle about thirty pounds of paper per week,counting the free newspapers.
    I don’t know who’s destroying the forests faster, the flyer industry or the Mountain Pine Beetle.

  35. ‘If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.’
    -Mark Twain

  36. is this like the time bill gates wrote a BOOK about how computers were going to take over as the source of knowledge?

  37. I like being able to critique the critiquers, especially when journalists enjoy their power a little too much.

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