The second half of a series on how to make your media watching/listening/reading a whole lot more green.
Last on the list of media that will soon be obsolete is physical media, we are talking about DVDs/CDs (if you even still have any) and anything else that you may find in the media section of your local electronics store- at this point I’d like to take the opportunity to tell all you working teens out there that I am sorry because it looks as if this is the end of video rental stores as we know them; at least for anything other than video games.
While being more convenient, having a larger variety and being always in stock, purchasing media online using services such as the Xbox Live Marketplace, AppleTV/ iTunes or through the DVR box of your local cable service provider could not be easier. As an added bonus the best part about downloading a TV show or movie is that using your Ipod, Zune or Zen that you can ‘take it to go’ and on the road with you; all this can even be done with the click of a few buttons.
Some skeptics may complain that playback is not instantaneous (there is a 5-10 minute delay between what is being downloaded to your system and what you are viewing) and that there are no extra features or hidden scenes. There is on the other hand also no need to return the movie, no waiting in line, no being disappointed by a movie not in stock, no scratched discs and even more importantly no WASTE.
In the end this series covered really only a few of the suggestions out there about how you can go about ‘greening your media consumption’ and they definitely go a long way in showing us how a bit of change, often even a step up, can go a long way towards cutting down our waste production and accumulation around the globe.
-Credit to Steve Rubel over at Micropursuasion for coming up with these ideas.
