Check out this infographic from Two Sides that shows the flaws in the 'Going Paperless' idea. Rather than saving the environment, the push to get you to go digital for everything is more about saving time and money for the company trying to get you to agree to it. Australians recover 87% and recycle 70% of their paper, and have the second highest rate of forest growth in the world. Paper is a sustainable and environmentally friendly industry with an annual turnover of $7.5b for our nation.
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Here's an interesting article on the way languages name colours. In researching their paper, Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems, Hannie Haynie and Claire Bowern found that all languages begin describing colours as just black or white and then follow the universal pattern of adding red, followed by either yellow or green. Unlike other words we use that alter over time, once a word for a colour is introduced to a language, it doesn't change.
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