Just Around the Corner

Shopping on the web and consider yourself "green"? Think again chum!
You may just be breeding an ecological disaster in your own backyard...

Written by Jay O"Berski (www.littlegreenpig.com), Directed & Edited by Jim Haverkamp (www.jimhaverkamp.com).

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Books
• indie
• indiebound
• shop local
• environment
• corporate
• funny
• satire
• newsreel
• 1940s
• ecology
• oil
• green
• regulator
• regulator bookshop
• Durham
• North Carolina
• independent
• books
• book
• global warming
• internet commerce
• internet shopping

[DoctorFeeder]

They're doubtless right about the packaging inefficiencies, but they don't take into account the fact that one postal (or UPS) truck can distribute books to hundreds of households more efficiently than if all those people drive down to the bookstore. I don't have enough info to do the math, but I'd say this video oversimplifies the issue.

If you really want efficiency, get a Kindle.

[RegulatorBookshop]

The waste comes mostly from three times as many trucks delivering the extra volume of boxes hundreds of miles from the warehouse to your town, not so much from the truck that delivers the book to your door. Do this math, and the carbon footprints are clearly very different.

As for the Swindle...er Kindle...we'll have some things to say about that in the future.

[ChimeChokyong]

Awesome! It's all about supporting our local communities, businesses that turn around and support us. Thank you for this.

[midnightbright]

But what if you use the money you save price-shopping on the Internet to donate to worthy environmental causes?

[veronicanbetty69]

Gee, then why not buy a Kindle and just do away with all bookstores, paper waste, shipping, etc? You have done yourselves in...

[TheCandaceRyan]

I want my next book delivered on roller skates:) Awesome video!  Support independent bookstores!

[BattlingTube]

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[BattlingTube]

This video has been entered into the 'Best Eco-Comedy Ever! ' battle at BattlingTube website.

[coldhitz]

Very interesting , that you bring up Kindle . The push is on for these to become more widely accepted in Universities and Public Libraries . I'm looking forward to your piece on this new craze of digital readers .

[calamtykel]

isn't the most ecological thing to do is purchase it USED on line? Just about any book can be found on Ebay or Amazon used at a fraction of the price. I just picked up a used copy of something my kid needs for schoolwork for 99 cents; as opposed to the 19.99 for NEW. Doesn't that save a lot more paper than the envelope that it took to mail it in??

[Irishgirlnc]

Hey hey hey!! It's Shirley Haley Temple!!!!

Not getting into the debate....sorry.....

[VideoBestFriends]

Except those last like, 800 years in a landfill, and are filled with toxins that seep out into the environment.

Plus, you can't share the books, and they can remove books from your collection at any time.

Also, all the layout and graphic designers, book designers that lose money and jobs due to things going digital.

[tyndaleffect]

Ebooks and borrowing from friends, neighboors and library....

[ArtWhores]

Screw the little guys. Let's crush the little bastards with the giant heels of a steel boot. Damn, I hate the gnat like little fuckers nipping at my heels all the time.