Aaron Cohen

Downloading Your Music: Good For the Environment?

Thursday Aug 09, 2007

Interesting article.

Snip:

If CD sales had remained perfectly steady since 2000, we would have seen 1,136,500,000 more CDs on the market. That is 39 million pounds of polycarbonate CDs saved and 150 million pounds of polystyrene jewel cases saved. That’s a vertical stack of CDs over 7,000 miles high and a horizontal row stretching from New York to Tokyo, with 300 miles to spare.

 

Aaron 

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Posted at 10:24PM Aug 09, 2007 by cohen in Green Lifestyle
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Less plastic is undoubtedly good for the environment.

But how do we calculate the additional servers required to store and serve out those 3 billion iTunes downloads? Not to mention the other sites selling music and, per the article, the impact of MySpace?

There's plenty of plastic involved in those servers as well as some chemicals a touch more frightening than the plastics. And you and Dave have both talked about the carbon footprint required by the servers electrical and cooling needs.

My gut says less CDs is a good thing, but I'd love to see the carbon analysis.

Posted by Matthew Artz on August 10, 2007 at 11:57 AM PDT #

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