To: Whom it may concern,

RE: About interior design directory online

idd.com.sg is setup to help to save the world from “Printing unnecessary” We have seen tons of paper send to junk.

Quoted from cutting from

How to Recycle Paper

By eHow Health Editor

I Did This Rate: (105 Ratings)

For every ton of paper that is recycled, 17 trees live. You can recycle most paper, including white office paper, newspaper and mixed-color paper, through a local curbside recycling program.

You can contribute by having in archive in our server.  As we go into the 21^st Century,

Survey on Infocomm Usage in Households 2000.

Comparison with other countries shows that Singapore remains relatively ahead in ownership of home computers, surpassing Australia (56%), US (51%) and Hong Kong (50%).

Complete articles can be found in www.ida.gov.sg/.../Publications_Level2/HH_Survey_Public_Rpt_-_FINAL.pdf

How can you contribute? How will it benefit you?

If your company is still printing beautiful and attractive brochures, you should be considering this.

1. Printing Cost
2. Expiry of you Brochure (ie. Teleco giant for example prints every models they launch, next moment another new model come along…maybe just in an interval of 3months. 

In the metric system, the density of all types of paper and paperboard is expressed in terms of grams per square metre (g/m²). This quantity is commonly called grammage in both (English and French (ISO 536), though printers in most English-speaking countries still refer to the "weight" of paper.

Typical office paper has 80 g/m², therefore a typical A4 sheet (¹⁄₁₆ m²) weighs 5 g.

The unofficial unit symbol "gsm" instead of the standard "g/m²" is also widely encountered in English speaking countries.

While paper is measured by weight, card is measured by thickness in micrometres.)

The metric ton, or tonne, is 1,000 kg (or 1 Mg) or approximately 2,204.6 pounds. Equal to approximately 250,000 A4 pages.

Scenrio  - A magazine of 200pages and 20,000 copies to circulate + 4,000,000 page which is 16 tonnes or 272 trees has to go just for 1 magazine. Doesn’t make sense , but it happening and happening all the time.

-looking for a survey – When we visited the Mobile Phone Shop, there is plenty of New Phones in the market, so what we do we collect all the relevant copies, we left. There it was chucked somewhere. The next moment, weeks pass something else came up, the cycle goes on until we bought a phone. (For your information – I got my phone from an on-line help which allows me to compare back to back.)  The next best thing happens 6 months later, tired of that Giszmo, the cycle starts again.

My solution – We are the selfish people, we print only what we feel needs to be printed. Therefore if everybody Stop giving brochure, I think more trees will be saved.

So why not do your part?

As the above survey also show back in 2000, our population in Singapore against the developed country has more than 50% of the population owns a computer. Here’s the catch,People Spend More Time Reading Online News

By Marisa Peacock / Apr 29. 2008 

Even since the Web descended down from the heavens (through a series of pipes and tubes, of course), we web folks have been obsessed with gathering, analyzing and spouting our wisdoms about metrics. By far the most popular metric these days is the length of time spent looking, reading or otherwise examining the screen in front of us.

It is to be accepted and otherwise unquestioned that the longer the time a user spends on a page, the better. So you can imagine the relief of online newspaper publishers when they learned of the results from data collected by Nielsen Online in March 2008.

So, as I was planning of How should I market my product? Where are my target clients – Bingo, they are all here.

I see a need to explore in this area.

A few questions:

1. Consortium of 1 united Brochure download where everything is centralised. (Not going into particular sites to find.)
2. We will provide the link
3. We will update people to Related News Article.
4. Rating is another way in many forums, where in only particular people will get the info.
5. International Bridging – Let’s say I am going to do a minor renovation – purpose for a organized kitchen – with this search portal. We will be able to get things faster and know better. i.e. Kitchen – Appliances – Design – Materials to the pin.