Because Action and many other sites across internet are part of the new revolution in delivering information to people without using paper. By doing this electronically it is cheaper and faster, causing far less pollution than cutting down a tree, processing it, and then getting it into your hands.
Paper has been the mainstay in the transferal of information since the days of the first printing press. Credit Johannes Gutenberg for that, and being the religious soul he was, the first printed book from this invention was The Holy Bible, or, The Gutenberg Bible, printed in about 1440.
After that, printed paper was just about everywhere, as well as the cost, the destruction of forests, and the environmental impact that only grew as more and more people used paper.
In today’s world, there are ways to break this paper cycle, and by reading BecauseAction online, you are contributing. Entire newspapers have gone digital and can be read in their entirety on the internet, and even schools are getting in the act. This is an appropriate step forward, because learning about and using computers has now become a mainstay for a modern schooling curriculum.
Schools, like all traditional institutions, have been doing certain things the same way for decades, and although on the cutting edge of teaching and learning, technologically, many are still quite old-fashioned. One of the more old-fashioned methods consists of using of paper products for such things as newsletters, parent-teacher correspondence, and memos. Knowing what we know about the effects of paper production on the environment, you would have to think there is a better way.
Meet Liberty Elementary in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They have stopped sending paper handouts to parents that no longer want them and have gone digital for 90 percent of the students in attendance. Why? Because Liberty has set up individual sites on the internet, one for each of the child’s parents, with school news updates, child performance, school newsletters and, as we can assume, disciplinary forms sent directly to the parents of the students.
The school has a student body of about 500 kids, sending information like this saves a whopping $1500 dollars a year in paper costs alone! It also gets rid of any excuse by the student about how a specific note or notice that needed to be signed and returned didn’t get to the parents for various reasons like, "I lost it" or "the dog ate it."
It seems to me that this is one of those ideas that should not only be adopted by all the schools in the US but should also be embraced as a way to cut costs and show the students that even in an intense paper chase environment such as our schools, there are ways to limit its use for the good of the students, the teachers, and the environment. And if anyone needs a role model to implement a practice like this, let them see how Liberty Elementary is doing it, Because Action speaks louder than words!
Source: BecauseAction.com
