The summer reading season is here. Some people will opt for paperbacks because they're easy to borrow and share. Others will go for e-readers, or audiobooks streamed on a phone. But which is the more ...

A typical paperback book accounts for around 1kg of carbon dioxide, according to sustainability expert Mike Berners-Lee. Perhaps that does not sound like much. But in the US alone, where 767 million ...

Remember last week when we looked at a study showing that downloading music is more carbon efficient than buying CDs? It turns out the same thing holds true for downloading books on the Amazon Kindle ...

In today's fast-moving information world, the concept of letting your fingers do the walking rarely goes beyond a computer keyboard. But it seems traditional hard copy telephone books are surviving ...

E-readers are everywhere, even at my local library. But what about the trees? You told us about reading the newspaper online vs. getting the print edition, so now tell us about e-books. Does reading ...

Ken Newcombe had spent years building a program to distribute more environmentally friendly cookstoves for free to rural communities in Africa and Southeast Asia. The benefit for his company, C-Quest ...

Aline M. Castro pulls out a pair of yellow cardboard glasses that she made. They look like the frames people wear on New Year’s Eve, where numbers adorn a person’s face—except these don’t flaunt ...