Pledge “no2freepapers”
"I will not take any of the free papers in London but only if 15 other Londoners will do the same."
— Simple Ed
Deadline to sign up by: 3rd January 2009
36 people signed up (21 over target)
Country: United Kingdom
Place: London (view map)
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Do you find the news reporting in the free papers unfulfilling? Does it make you want to know more background, more facts, and have some more intelligence applied to it? It's the macdonalds of the media and isn't doing my brain any good.
In addition free newspapers across the world require 11,500 new trees to be felled EVERY DAY. That's AFTER taking into account the (self reported) 70% recycled materials figure (so they use the equivalent of some 38,000 trees each day).
So bad for the brain, bad for the planet.
I've taken to listening to audiobooks on my ipod instead. You can listen to a story, or a book like 'Nudge' or something, during ALL of your commute, not just the bit you're on the tube or bus for.
- pledge 100USD
- give a percentage or more of the Canton Free TV project of $4000
- contribute $25 per month to DVGRR
- Be Keen on Clean
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Current signatories (
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Simple Ed, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- James Darling
- garsin cheung
- Jessie Teggin
- Sumit
- Shell Grayson
- Peter
- Lucy Robertson
- John Gibson
- Hannah L
- Kiran Nihalani
- Ayesha Garrett
- Crispin Cooper
- Jacqui W-S
- Michael Holloway
- Sam Loy
- Denis Lenihan
- Tom Witney
- Sam Dent
- Louise Sutcliffe
- Quincel
- Rob Davis
- Mark
- Patricia Somerset
- Will Lyons
- Ollie Campbell
- Jason Eden
- Tom Morris
- joginder singh foley
- Jack Houston
- 7 people who did not want to give their names, 5 of whom have done the pledge
Comments on this pledge
http://librivox.org/
Its got huge numbers of public domain (mostly copyright expired) books, read by volunteers. Some of them are not read perfectly or by people with funny accents, but for the most part they are very good.
As they are public domain, they are free to download and you can leacaly give copys to anyone you like!