| | I just want to take a few minutes out of my research and math practice to be incredulous. Granted, not everyone had the pleasure of living in the midst of a paper-mill forest, so they probably have no idea that making paper doesn't deplete the rainforest or anything like that. I did have that privelege. When I was finishing high school, way back when, my parents' property was adjacent to a huge forest owned and maintained by a nearby paper mill.
Living where I did, I learned first-hand that a paper mill grows acres and acres of fast-growing pine trees, maintaining a huge forest that they harvest selectively on a rotating basis, replanting each area after it's been harvested so that by the time the rotation is completed there will be tall trees again for the next harvest. This has the effect of constantly maintaining a living, breathing forest for years and years. The amount of biomass doesn't change, just the plant density in each section. And that forest is full of all the creatures that normally live in a forest, so it is actually a nicely managed, fully functioning ecosystem.
The thing that ignited my incredulity? This: "Chegg for Trees will ensure that a tree is planted in a needy area every time a textbook is rented via the Textbookflix.com service. Chegg is delivering this program in partnership with the newly founded Eco-Libris, an organization that seeks to balance out the trees cut down for the production of books by planting trees in developing countries."
While it may be good to plant trees in developing countries rather than cutting them down to make way for urban development, and I am in no way discouraging their practice, I think it's kind of dishonest to imply that making textbooks is depleting trees from the earth. I know otherwise.
Back to my regularly scheduled studying.
Afterword: I keep finding other less than positive comments about this same Chegg...
http://www.dewknight.com/2008/09/08/stay-away-from-chegg/
Too bad, because I otherwise liked the idea of 3rd-party textbook rental.
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