Zazi's still alive?!

@animalstyle: You might want to check out the Cradle To Cradle guidelines if you're interested in these matters, they have a very comprehensive system to certify sustainable products, and offer a lot of insight in how these things work. What I like about them is that they have a very positive attitude, they're not about doing "less damage", but about actually improving things in positive sense.

http://www.c2ccertified.org/

best thread evar would read again

lets not forget about all the disposable batteries and noise pollution caused by dmg's.

"Zero carbon footprint" isn't exactly relative terms, and getting laptops/telephones isn't mutually exclusive from game boys whether you're doing chipmusic or not. I'm just nitpicking though, I get your point

if you start to do math on what would have produced which carbon footprint you'll probably go mad
it's just too complex.
But I think re-using old tech instead of blindly buying every new gadget that comes up on the market is a great thing to do.

exactly, making, re-using, counteracting the obsolescence of technology and so on, that's all small starts that can have an impact. And it's not so much about what they do now, it's more about what will develop from it.
So yeah I think the chiptune community is already doing a lot.

It's better to buy an iPad and then use it for as long as you can squeeze something out of it, than buying a low-carbon-footprint one every year

I mean compared to creating new devices like laptops and iPhones.

I'm guessing that putting game boys in a landfill where no one would ever do anything with them would have less of a carbon footprint than using them, shipping them overseas, stuffing them with batteries, going to far off places to play music from them etc.

Chipmusic done right has a zero carbon footprint.. i mean how many thousands of gameboys have we saved from landfills?

I hear ya animalstyle. People always pine and say bio/economic diversity has to start somewhere. It has to start small and in multiple areas at once. I don't see why chipmusic can't be a part of it:) It's just hard to find the root of all evil here because, well, everything we do/use is made of processed materials. But shoopdawoop gall darn we gotta have a biodiversity spokesperson! Could it be you?!

how about driving your cars into a ravine instead of putting this kind of cart in front of a well-oiled horse, haahahah

How about starting to not buy bottled drinks. There are such larger issues as always. Go feed some hungry children in your town.

Also, you just compared gluten free breads to bioplastic ICs without a hint of irony. What is the matter with you?

I'm with you on this, but I think it's probably more economical/realistic to start small.

Solar-powered DMG perhaps?