At last something  that shows the term  materialist isn't the pejorative the  tree huggy types would like it to remain. In fact  materialist has been wrongly applied to people that have little ,or no, understanding of what a material is or can be used for.  People that have understanding tend to make the best possible use of the wood, metal or plastic.Or they build servers the uses less resources created and managed by staff that work as near as they have to be to be effective  and aren't stuffing  CO2 out the tailpipe to commute or  filling landfills with as much crap.

Nope that's the consumers job

Talking of jobs though  Sun  have a  program  which shows that employees, the company and the place we all live benefits from  21c technology more so than the industrial  revolution that  most people  find themselves playing out day to day.  

The average worker only used 64 watts per hour at home, compared to 130 watts per hour in a Sun office.

Commuting was responsible for 98% of each employee’s carbon footprint.

Working from home two and a half days per week saves two and a half weeks of commuting time per year.

The same amount of work at home saves 5400 kilowatt hours of energy per year.

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