We’re clear-cutting British Columbia for this?

July 24th, 2006 at 11:29 am (Tales of the Swamp)

I’m doing corrections to an electronic course right now for the third time. I don’t actually mind at all having to do these corrections; what really bothers me is that despite my request to have the corrections submitted electronically, for the second time I’ve been given a stack of paper with corrections marked in pencil. There are only 23 corrections to be made, but the entire course was printed out and the pages to be corrected were marked with post it notes.

I just measured the width of paper in my office, and there are 500 pages for every cm. That means that the 2cm high stack of paper I was just given contains at least 150 pages. (I’m cutting off 50 pages because pages are less compact when they’ve been leafed through.) Because I know the person responsible for the course has printed out at least 2 copies of the course for his own use, as well as another set of corrections for me a few weeks ago, that means that for this one single electronic course, at least 600 multi-purpose, 0% recycled, single-sided pages are going into the recycling bin this week.

We’re clear-cutting British Columbia for this?

4 Comments

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    Tavis said,

    July 24, 2006 at 6:44 pm

    It’s ok for the following reasons:

    1. Very few people live in or visit the interior of BC so it doesn’t really matter if it gets clear cut.
    2. All the trees are black and dead due to pine beetle infestation, which is due to a poor replanting strategy initiated decades ago. All the trees have to be “salvaged” within 5 years anyway.
    3. Trees grow back.

    If you’d like to initiate change in policy I’d mention that it’s a waste of money.

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    Eve said,

    July 24, 2006 at 7:43 pm

    Well then, it’s a waste of money.

    I’m paying taxes for this?

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    steph said,

    July 24, 2006 at 9:29 pm

    totally unrelated, but what’d you end up calling that paper of yours?

    also, i think you’re about the only person i know who’d measure the stack of paper on her desk. kudos for that :)

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    Eve said,

    July 24, 2006 at 11:04 pm

    It was something boring. I think it was called “Chasing Newell’s Dream or something corny.

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