By: Thomas Hollowell
Zaer Forest is near Rabat, which is also just a few kilometers from Casablanca. Trekking Morocco can present you with hundreds of different choices. You have Jbel Toubkal, M'Goun, and other high altitude stops. These trekking experiences are for someone who doesn't mind traveling for days, camping out, and experiencing nature. The longer trekking experiences in the High Atlas Mountains are rewarding, but as a birdwatcher you might consider them to be too long. You might instead appreciate a day trek to the Zaer Forest. It is filled with Double Spurred Francolins and Black headed Bush Shrikes among other birds.
Trips into the Zaer Forest are for during the day, with short car rides and a nice trek to a great lunch location. There are also circular style treks where you start off at one point, only to return there after going through the forest. Charming villages, verdant valleys, and cork oaks await you on a trek through Zaer Forest.
Gorges in the area provide you with more greenery and places to find the unique birds of Morocco. The gorges in Zaer Forest can be lined with water to help grow the plants of the region, giving food to the birds. North of Sidi Bettache is the most fruitful area for birdwatchers. There is a hunting lodge in Sidi Yahya Zaer to stay at while on your trek.
Other birds to spot while trekking Morocco include spotted flycatchers, larks, white storks, and black shoulders kites. We already mentioned one species that is only found in Morocco: the Double Spurred Francolins.
Morocco is more than just an African country sitting on the Atlantic and Mediterranean. It is a country filled with culture and beauty. Exploring this beauty through the Zaer Forest is just one way to trek Morocco. The experience will be a pleasant one for bird lovers.
For individuals looking for more than birds or longer hikes the High Atlas trekking tours will allow for that. The High Atlas Mountains contain villages uncharted on any map. Birds, plants, and the ever elusive Barbary Monkey can be found in the High Atlas region. Allow yourself to experience the wonders that make up Morocco. Visit more than just Zaer Forest.
The Rif Mountains present more valleys, waterfalls, and mountain peaks to enjoy. In this region of Morocco you can expect to see birds on the beaches, which differ from the forested birds. There are also a number of bio reserves in the Rif Mountains and throughout Morocco. These parks provide birdwatchers with a number of species to sit and waste an entire afternoon or day on.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Can't See the Trees For the Forest
By : Suzi Elton
Most people know the meaning of "you can't see the forest for the trees". It means that you get bogged down in the minutia of daily life and miss the big picture or the purpose of the activities of your life.
It is also possible to miss the trees for the forest. What this means is that you get so involved in your goals and the things you want to accomplish that you aren't living and enjoying your life every day. You aren't connecting with people. You aren't noticing the beauty about you. You get into a habit of rigidity about taking action to advance your goals. It's easy to seem rather a tornado of activity blithely running over anyone or anything in your way. If you recognize your current behavior here, here are some ideas for you to consider.
1.) Immediately decide to become present in your day to day life - with yourself and with the people around you. Open your eyes to the beauty. Deliberately slow down. Allow more time for everything. Cut out activities that make you frantic. Take a look at your schedule and start to eliminate activities. Most of us do a lot of "have to's", and engage in activities because, "I'm doing this to please others" or, "I've been doing this - so I will keep doing it.". Release as much of this as you can.
2.) Take a fresh look at the timeline you have set for your goals. There's a good chance that a lot of your issues comes from setting a needlessly aggressive timeline. Some of us humans have a tendency to keep our lives unnecessarily "amped up". There may even be a tendency to be an "adrenaline junkie". Give this up.
Even if it gets you to your goal sooner - you missed the ride there. If you had "croaked" (i.e., died) on the way to your goal - you would have missed your life. (Note: If you're a procrastinator - this article is not for you. Don't use it as an excuse not to achieve your goals.)
3.) Look at your goals again and take the time to put them in order of priority. Often people will function as if every goal has the same priority. It's much better to choose to focus on your top 3 goals, with special concentration on your #1 goal. The most common self sabotage that clients indulge in is pretending that all their goals have #1 priority. As a result, they either feel overwhelmed and do nothing, or else, they take sporadic and half hearted efforts and they never make any meaningful progress on their multiple goals.
4.) One of the clearest signs that you don't see the trees for the forest is when you cut off suggestions from others without listening. This is usually caused by a self created "timeline intensity" mentality. Use this as a guideline to signal yourself that you are missing the trees in your life - and choose to take different action.
5.) This "missing the trees" style sets you up to be insensitive to the needs of others. It creates a tendency to be totally unaware of discomfort, hurt feelings, and frustrations others experience in dealing with your steam roller behavior. It doesn't mean you are being bad, just clueless. Failing to pay attention to the signals of others around you can cost you dearly in business, and it would likely be a failure which you would not even understand or have any appreciation about the causation.
It is easy to get wrapped up in our goals when we are very success oriented. It is common to lose sight of the trees when we have our focus on the forest of our goals. This can be changed - and the changes are likely to bring you greater success and certainly greater happiness. Experiment with it and see what you think.
Most people know the meaning of "you can't see the forest for the trees". It means that you get bogged down in the minutia of daily life and miss the big picture or the purpose of the activities of your life.
It is also possible to miss the trees for the forest. What this means is that you get so involved in your goals and the things you want to accomplish that you aren't living and enjoying your life every day. You aren't connecting with people. You aren't noticing the beauty about you. You get into a habit of rigidity about taking action to advance your goals. It's easy to seem rather a tornado of activity blithely running over anyone or anything in your way. If you recognize your current behavior here, here are some ideas for you to consider.
1.) Immediately decide to become present in your day to day life - with yourself and with the people around you. Open your eyes to the beauty. Deliberately slow down. Allow more time for everything. Cut out activities that make you frantic. Take a look at your schedule and start to eliminate activities. Most of us do a lot of "have to's", and engage in activities because, "I'm doing this to please others" or, "I've been doing this - so I will keep doing it.". Release as much of this as you can.
2.) Take a fresh look at the timeline you have set for your goals. There's a good chance that a lot of your issues comes from setting a needlessly aggressive timeline. Some of us humans have a tendency to keep our lives unnecessarily "amped up". There may even be a tendency to be an "adrenaline junkie". Give this up.
Even if it gets you to your goal sooner - you missed the ride there. If you had "croaked" (i.e., died) on the way to your goal - you would have missed your life. (Note: If you're a procrastinator - this article is not for you. Don't use it as an excuse not to achieve your goals.)
3.) Look at your goals again and take the time to put them in order of priority. Often people will function as if every goal has the same priority. It's much better to choose to focus on your top 3 goals, with special concentration on your #1 goal. The most common self sabotage that clients indulge in is pretending that all their goals have #1 priority. As a result, they either feel overwhelmed and do nothing, or else, they take sporadic and half hearted efforts and they never make any meaningful progress on their multiple goals.
4.) One of the clearest signs that you don't see the trees for the forest is when you cut off suggestions from others without listening. This is usually caused by a self created "timeline intensity" mentality. Use this as a guideline to signal yourself that you are missing the trees in your life - and choose to take different action.
5.) This "missing the trees" style sets you up to be insensitive to the needs of others. It creates a tendency to be totally unaware of discomfort, hurt feelings, and frustrations others experience in dealing with your steam roller behavior. It doesn't mean you are being bad, just clueless. Failing to pay attention to the signals of others around you can cost you dearly in business, and it would likely be a failure which you would not even understand or have any appreciation about the causation.
It is easy to get wrapped up in our goals when we are very success oriented. It is common to lose sight of the trees when we have our focus on the forest of our goals. This can be changed - and the changes are likely to bring you greater success and certainly greater happiness. Experiment with it and see what you think.
The World's Strangest Forest
By David Urban
Modern Turkmenistan was, for a time, ruled by a madman named Saparmyrat Niyazov. He called himself the Prophet and was wealthy beyond all comprehension, stealing the country blind and building huge monuments to himself throughout the region.
During his reign he banned beards, gold teeth, opera, and forbid education after the ninth grade on the theory that uneducated people were easier to govern. He renamed the twelve months of the year, using his own name for January and names of family members for the other months.
He isolated the country from the outside: no internet, no cell phones, no satellite communications, no international telephones. Criticism was not allowed; anybody who dared either disappeared or was tortured in his prisons.
He made Turkmenistan into a heaven for himself and a hell for his people.
One of his fantastic projects was to create a forest for Turkmenistan. He wanted Turkmenistan-a country that was rocky, barren, dune-covered, wind-swept, a sun-baked plain crossed with ravines and gullies, two-thirds covered by the Kara Kum desert-to resemble Russia with its great pine forests.
"I will build a forest in the desert," he proclaimed. And so he had millions of Douglas firs and White pines planted, only to have the trees wither in the desert heat and blown flat by the scouring winds.
Niyazov died in 2006. Today, no trace of his fantastic forest remains. His legacy is like that of the poet Shelly's Ozymandias, a leader whose mad vision was buried by the "lone and level sands' of time.
David Urban is an avid hiker, backpacker, and environmentalist who has traveled extensively across the American Southwest. He is also the owner of Green Man T-Shirts, supplier of organic t-shirts featuring designs by artist Rob Juszak, which donates 25% of all profits to environmental groups.
Modern Turkmenistan was, for a time, ruled by a madman named Saparmyrat Niyazov. He called himself the Prophet and was wealthy beyond all comprehension, stealing the country blind and building huge monuments to himself throughout the region.
During his reign he banned beards, gold teeth, opera, and forbid education after the ninth grade on the theory that uneducated people were easier to govern. He renamed the twelve months of the year, using his own name for January and names of family members for the other months.
He isolated the country from the outside: no internet, no cell phones, no satellite communications, no international telephones. Criticism was not allowed; anybody who dared either disappeared or was tortured in his prisons.
He made Turkmenistan into a heaven for himself and a hell for his people.
One of his fantastic projects was to create a forest for Turkmenistan. He wanted Turkmenistan-a country that was rocky, barren, dune-covered, wind-swept, a sun-baked plain crossed with ravines and gullies, two-thirds covered by the Kara Kum desert-to resemble Russia with its great pine forests.
"I will build a forest in the desert," he proclaimed. And so he had millions of Douglas firs and White pines planted, only to have the trees wither in the desert heat and blown flat by the scouring winds.
Niyazov died in 2006. Today, no trace of his fantastic forest remains. His legacy is like that of the poet Shelly's Ozymandias, a leader whose mad vision was buried by the "lone and level sands' of time.
David Urban is an avid hiker, backpacker, and environmentalist who has traveled extensively across the American Southwest. He is also the owner of Green Man T-Shirts, supplier of organic t-shirts featuring designs by artist Rob Juszak, which donates 25% of all profits to environmental groups.
Why Forest City Photo Albums?
by: Jim Green
You may be thinking, "There must be a story behind the Forest City portion of the company's name, Forest City Photo Albums (forestcityphotoalbums.com)." If you thought that, you're right. The company is headquartered in the city of Rockford, IL, which was nicknamed the Forest City almost a century ago because of all the elm trees lining many of the streets. I remember as a child riding down some of the 2-lane streets which are now 4-lane, and noting that it was like driving through a tunnel because of all the elm trees. Then, in the 1950s, Dutch Elm Disease struck the city, and all of those trees had to be cut down. It brought tears to lots of people in town at that time, as I remember.
However, before that time, we already had an extensive network of city parks, some a block in size, many much larger, which are all graciously planted with trees. So, although the original reason for the name is gone, the moniker still fits. In fact, in recent years, the Rockford Park District has been named one of the country's top park districts.
The photo albums mentioned earlier in this article come from the beach paradise island of Bali in Indonesia, and are handcrafted from jungle-renewable materials right nearby. As a result, they're organic photo albums, and in conjunction with that, eco-friendly photo albums --one of the very few companies making this type of product available on the Internet. Come check us out, and please note that when your order reaches $75, we pay the shipping and handling for you.
You may be thinking, "There must be a story behind the Forest City portion of the company's name, Forest City Photo Albums (forestcityphotoalbums.com)." If you thought that, you're right. The company is headquartered in the city of Rockford, IL, which was nicknamed the Forest City almost a century ago because of all the elm trees lining many of the streets. I remember as a child riding down some of the 2-lane streets which are now 4-lane, and noting that it was like driving through a tunnel because of all the elm trees. Then, in the 1950s, Dutch Elm Disease struck the city, and all of those trees had to be cut down. It brought tears to lots of people in town at that time, as I remember.
However, before that time, we already had an extensive network of city parks, some a block in size, many much larger, which are all graciously planted with trees. So, although the original reason for the name is gone, the moniker still fits. In fact, in recent years, the Rockford Park District has been named one of the country's top park districts.
The photo albums mentioned earlier in this article come from the beach paradise island of Bali in Indonesia, and are handcrafted from jungle-renewable materials right nearby. As a result, they're organic photo albums, and in conjunction with that, eco-friendly photo albums --one of the very few companies making this type of product available on the Internet. Come check us out, and please note that when your order reaches $75, we pay the shipping and handling for you.
Garden Design: Turn a Forest into a Beautiful Garden
by: Joanna Harris
The main difference between a beautiful garden and a haphazard growth of trees and plants is designing. Without the element of proper designing, any growth of plants and trees will give you the feeling of a forest. You might have chosen the plants and flowers you want to grow in your garden but if you ignore the most essential part of any gardening project, that is design, you will only get mesh of plants that may die off soon and waste your money and all the efforts. Let us share a few simple tips about how to design a simple garden. Once your neighbours see your self-designed garden, they will be green of envy.
If you have raw land for gardening or a simple garden, you have great scope for designing. You can use your creativity along with a few simple garden-designing rules to give it a beautiful shape and structure. And you have a large area to add more plants and flowers in the future.
Before you start designing the garden, have a closer look at your property. Bring measuring tape, a notepad and a garden hose with you. You may be surprised, but garden hose will help you decide the shape of the garden. You can arrange it in many ways, using different shapes as a base, like square, round or rectangle to design a basic and balanced garden. An asymmetrical and free formed garden can blend beautifully in surroundings.
Write down the measurements of the garden in your notepad. Knowing these will help you design the garden in a more comprehensive way, and also, it'll help you decide the quantities of soil and mulch additives. Using a scale, draw the garden on the graph paper along with the permanent features of your home.
Choose plants for your garden, which can grow according to the sunlight available in your garden. In addition, native plants are the best choice, as they need less maintenance. Colour scheme is an important element of the garden design. The colours should blend well with the house and existing landscape features. Colour scheme should be such, which alleviates your mood, creates a feeling of simplicity and peace. Red and orange are vibrant colours and green, blue or light purple are cool colours.
Focal point of the garden should be foliage plants, including ornamental grasses or other plants having beautiful kind of leaves. Plants should be arranged according to the garden shape. Place plants outward and forward in descending order in height which complement the focal point of the garden.
Garden design is the most essential part of constructing a beautiful garden. Gardens are very dynamic in nature and they change, grow, spread, die off and then bloom in many wonderful ways. If you're not sure if the plants you want to have will not affect one another in a negative way, or you're not sure about the design – ask a professional designer for help. You can share all your ideas and plans, and this way you can create a perfect garden of your dreams.
The main difference between a beautiful garden and a haphazard growth of trees and plants is designing. Without the element of proper designing, any growth of plants and trees will give you the feeling of a forest. You might have chosen the plants and flowers you want to grow in your garden but if you ignore the most essential part of any gardening project, that is design, you will only get mesh of plants that may die off soon and waste your money and all the efforts. Let us share a few simple tips about how to design a simple garden. Once your neighbours see your self-designed garden, they will be green of envy.
If you have raw land for gardening or a simple garden, you have great scope for designing. You can use your creativity along with a few simple garden-designing rules to give it a beautiful shape and structure. And you have a large area to add more plants and flowers in the future.
Before you start designing the garden, have a closer look at your property. Bring measuring tape, a notepad and a garden hose with you. You may be surprised, but garden hose will help you decide the shape of the garden. You can arrange it in many ways, using different shapes as a base, like square, round or rectangle to design a basic and balanced garden. An asymmetrical and free formed garden can blend beautifully in surroundings.
Write down the measurements of the garden in your notepad. Knowing these will help you design the garden in a more comprehensive way, and also, it'll help you decide the quantities of soil and mulch additives. Using a scale, draw the garden on the graph paper along with the permanent features of your home.
Choose plants for your garden, which can grow according to the sunlight available in your garden. In addition, native plants are the best choice, as they need less maintenance. Colour scheme is an important element of the garden design. The colours should blend well with the house and existing landscape features. Colour scheme should be such, which alleviates your mood, creates a feeling of simplicity and peace. Red and orange are vibrant colours and green, blue or light purple are cool colours.
Focal point of the garden should be foliage plants, including ornamental grasses or other plants having beautiful kind of leaves. Plants should be arranged according to the garden shape. Place plants outward and forward in descending order in height which complement the focal point of the garden.
Garden design is the most essential part of constructing a beautiful garden. Gardens are very dynamic in nature and they change, grow, spread, die off and then bloom in many wonderful ways. If you're not sure if the plants you want to have will not affect one another in a negative way, or you're not sure about the design – ask a professional designer for help. You can share all your ideas and plans, and this way you can create a perfect garden of your dreams.
Jeep Safari in Kerala Forests
by: Dev Sri
Like Camel and Horse safaris in India, another popular form is the Jeep Safari. The Jeep Safari not only refreshes and revitalises but one feels close to nature while driving through the quiet and beautiful countryside. Let your senses sway to the romance of the surroundings as you pass forts, palaces, historical landmarks and villages.
Jeep Safari in Kerala
If anyone wants to actively explore the most beautiful sites of Kerala and take a wild and exciting ride to the other side, the Jeep Safari Adventure will be the right ticket. In kerala you have tours consisting of small groups to offer an even more personalized service. The tour guides have many years of experience in the tourism sector.
Explore the varied geo-morphological features of Kerala on Jeep Safari Tours in Kerala. An adventurous tour to any part of Kerala is accomplished in a better and more exciting way on jeep safaris. Jeep safari is the best way to travel on a rugged terrain, hilly terrain, or any other off beaten track in Kerala. Jeep Safari Tours in kerala helps you in discovering those aspects of kerala that you have read in the books or seen on informative channels and fin hard to travel in any other mode of transportation.
Cross wild rivers are made for adventurous on jeeps. Explore the unknown while admiring the natural beauty at its best on a jeep safari. Jeeps can take you o the interiors of a village or a town where heavy and huge buses found hard to travel. This not only ensures you greater excitement but also that you get to see much more. The visitors can enjoy the Kerala adventure jeep safari with a thrilling mind.
The Kerala adventure jeep safari may really goes through an exciting route of winding roads, a few narrow unsurfaced roads where 2 vehicles cannot easily pass each other. The road passes through dense forests, the trees soaring up meters. Road hazards include flocks of sheep and traditionally dressed village women.
At Mudamalai Sanctuary visitors can enjoy jeep safaris depending on the interests. A lot of other unexplored places are there in Kerala perfect for Jeep Safari. Anyone seeking jeep safari in India will get information about the stunning routes of Kerala. Visitors interested in Jeep Safari training will be provided.
Kerala adventure Jeep Safari is well known all over the country and tourists from all over the world are getting interested in the activity.
The Jeep Safari is mind blowing through any part of Western Ghats. The traveller feels riding through the heaven on earth. Vast stretches of undulating forests and greens peppered with flowers and mountain streams fill up with joy. While on the jeep safari you are the part of the natural beauty.
Like Camel and Horse safaris in India, another popular form is the Jeep Safari. The Jeep Safari not only refreshes and revitalises but one feels close to nature while driving through the quiet and beautiful countryside. Let your senses sway to the romance of the surroundings as you pass forts, palaces, historical landmarks and villages.
Jeep Safari in Kerala
If anyone wants to actively explore the most beautiful sites of Kerala and take a wild and exciting ride to the other side, the Jeep Safari Adventure will be the right ticket. In kerala you have tours consisting of small groups to offer an even more personalized service. The tour guides have many years of experience in the tourism sector.
Explore the varied geo-morphological features of Kerala on Jeep Safari Tours in Kerala. An adventurous tour to any part of Kerala is accomplished in a better and more exciting way on jeep safaris. Jeep safari is the best way to travel on a rugged terrain, hilly terrain, or any other off beaten track in Kerala. Jeep Safari Tours in kerala helps you in discovering those aspects of kerala that you have read in the books or seen on informative channels and fin hard to travel in any other mode of transportation.
Cross wild rivers are made for adventurous on jeeps. Explore the unknown while admiring the natural beauty at its best on a jeep safari. Jeeps can take you o the interiors of a village or a town where heavy and huge buses found hard to travel. This not only ensures you greater excitement but also that you get to see much more. The visitors can enjoy the Kerala adventure jeep safari with a thrilling mind.
The Kerala adventure jeep safari may really goes through an exciting route of winding roads, a few narrow unsurfaced roads where 2 vehicles cannot easily pass each other. The road passes through dense forests, the trees soaring up meters. Road hazards include flocks of sheep and traditionally dressed village women.
At Mudamalai Sanctuary visitors can enjoy jeep safaris depending on the interests. A lot of other unexplored places are there in Kerala perfect for Jeep Safari. Anyone seeking jeep safari in India will get information about the stunning routes of Kerala. Visitors interested in Jeep Safari training will be provided.
Kerala adventure Jeep Safari is well known all over the country and tourists from all over the world are getting interested in the activity.
The Jeep Safari is mind blowing through any part of Western Ghats. The traveller feels riding through the heaven on earth. Vast stretches of undulating forests and greens peppered with flowers and mountain streams fill up with joy. While on the jeep safari you are the part of the natural beauty.
Can eBook Readers save our forests?
By: Marco Gustafsson
As an increasing number of people begin to think about environmental friendly methods that will assist in saving our forests, the eBook Reader is one that most will fail to consider. However, as the number of books printed rises exponentially, the number of trees being harvested also rises which is a concern.
Most likely this trend will continue as people become more accustomed to the information age and the quick availability of the printed word on almost any topic they might be able to imagine. It is only when we all dedicate ourselves to creating the paperless office that the continual destruction of our forests might diminish.
Although some might point towards the advent of ebooks and PDF files as offering a potential solution to the proliferation of paper books, it is a fact that many people tend to print these out in a format that uses more paper had they been professionally printed originally.
There is, however, a solution to this available in the form of the eBook reader. Such readers present eBooks in an easy to read format that is equally as portable as a physical book – in fact more so, since it is lighter and more easily carried, and as cutting edge technology continues to develop, the opportunity for becoming more environmentally conscious continues to present itself. According to Digital Book Readers, development of electronic paper technology, such as the electronic ink used in mobile reading devices, will take us closer to a greener future.
The amount of paper used for printing documents
, books, magazines, and other such materials has not decreased with the proliferation of personal computers and laptops, but instead, seems to have increased. It appears that as people have unlimited access to information, the number of documents being printed continues to be on the rise. The necessity to transport printed materials from one location to another or to simply isolate specific documents is also increasing exponentially.
The introduction of eReaders can be instrumental in the saving of our forests if we as a people decide to utilize them in a fashion that can truly have the desired impact we seek. Listed below are some possibilities for using the eReader to assist in saving our forests:
* Replacing textbooks in Colleges and Universities: The eBook Readers have the capability to replace textbooks in our colleges and universities, as well as reduce the number of books necessary in our libraries.
* Replace the number of books now being sold in bookstores both land based and internet based. With the eReader, one can quickly locate the book of their choice, download it on the machine and immediately begin reading. Most downloads take around 60 seconds for an average size book.
* Replace the number of magazines and trade publications now being sold and distributed. Again, the eMagazine can easily be downloaded and accessed quickly and easily.
* Replace the number of printed reports and documents in corporate America and small businesses across the world. Businesses, both large and small, continually print budgets, marketing analysis and materials, training packages, etc. for distribution and review. These machines could very well assist in diminishing the number of these types of printed materials drastically.
Not only do the eBook Readers serve the purpose of effectively eliminating the destruction of so many trees, but they also provide ease of use and simple transport capabilities. They are light, compact, easy to use, and some of them will even read to us.
As an increasing number of people begin to think about environmental friendly methods that will assist in saving our forests, the eBook Reader is one that most will fail to consider. However, as the number of books printed rises exponentially, the number of trees being harvested also rises which is a concern.
Most likely this trend will continue as people become more accustomed to the information age and the quick availability of the printed word on almost any topic they might be able to imagine. It is only when we all dedicate ourselves to creating the paperless office that the continual destruction of our forests might diminish.
Although some might point towards the advent of ebooks and PDF files as offering a potential solution to the proliferation of paper books, it is a fact that many people tend to print these out in a format that uses more paper had they been professionally printed originally.
There is, however, a solution to this available in the form of the eBook reader. Such readers present eBooks in an easy to read format that is equally as portable as a physical book – in fact more so, since it is lighter and more easily carried, and as cutting edge technology continues to develop, the opportunity for becoming more environmentally conscious continues to present itself. According to Digital Book Readers, development of electronic paper technology, such as the electronic ink used in mobile reading devices, will take us closer to a greener future.
The amount of paper used for printing documents
, books, magazines, and other such materials has not decreased with the proliferation of personal computers and laptops, but instead, seems to have increased. It appears that as people have unlimited access to information, the number of documents being printed continues to be on the rise. The necessity to transport printed materials from one location to another or to simply isolate specific documents is also increasing exponentially.
The introduction of eReaders can be instrumental in the saving of our forests if we as a people decide to utilize them in a fashion that can truly have the desired impact we seek. Listed below are some possibilities for using the eReader to assist in saving our forests:
* Replacing textbooks in Colleges and Universities: The eBook Readers have the capability to replace textbooks in our colleges and universities, as well as reduce the number of books necessary in our libraries.
* Replace the number of books now being sold in bookstores both land based and internet based. With the eReader, one can quickly locate the book of their choice, download it on the machine and immediately begin reading. Most downloads take around 60 seconds for an average size book.
* Replace the number of magazines and trade publications now being sold and distributed. Again, the eMagazine can easily be downloaded and accessed quickly and easily.
* Replace the number of printed reports and documents in corporate America and small businesses across the world. Businesses, both large and small, continually print budgets, marketing analysis and materials, training packages, etc. for distribution and review. These machines could very well assist in diminishing the number of these types of printed materials drastically.
Not only do the eBook Readers serve the purpose of effectively eliminating the destruction of so many trees, but they also provide ease of use and simple transport capabilities. They are light, compact, easy to use, and some of them will even read to us.
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