Reading Materials Online Save Paper?? Really??!

No, not really actually. Before today's class, Macek told me that our school's course catalog for next year is only available online. He then talked about how just because people post reading materials online doesn't necessarily help the environment. In fact, it hurts it since people are just printing these materials out, thus using more paper. Why things like course catalogs would only be available online is beyond me. Just give out copies like they did in years past. Newspapers may be dying and fewer being published may help the environment, but those are daily things. A vital thing like a course catalog shouldn't be posted online exclusively, thus forcing people to print out pages and pages of material. I can't believe someone didn't consider that when this decision was made.