There's not much you can do with a telephone to make it environmentally sustainable, except make it out of wood I suppose. However, it is possible to choose your telecom provider on the basis of how sustainable and/or ethical their operations are.
As with any company, they use up all manner of resources, from electricity used to power the office lights, to tea bags in the cuppas, to paper in the photocopiers. All of these could be purchased using the most environmentally and/or ethical suppliers, can't they?
Of all the providers available to us for a telephone and broadband contract the one we found that seemed to tick all the right boxes on the ethical/environmental front was the PhoneCoop. http://www.thephone.coop/index.html Okay, so they're not the cheapest (since when was making a stand for others and the planet cheap?!), and they took a while sorting out our phone line as it was a new number, hence the delay in starting this blog. But we're now happy in the knowledge that this is another way that we can purchase an ethical service and reduce our environmental impact.
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How about a wooden keyboard or mouse? Take a look at: http://www.kudos-systems.org.uk/Peripherals.htm
Interesting - not come across Kudos IT before. The old Dell is 4 in May so should've been pensioned off months ago if you believe the hype. We don't. We'll keep it going for as long as possible before 'upgrading' to accomodate more bloatware, if we really have to. Maybe then we'll look at Kudos, or make our own from our extensive woodstack ;-)
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