We've almost completed the switch to CF bulbs at home... in the first month (with about 1/3 of the former incandescents switched over) we saved about $15. This was over the summer, when we had the all the computers running, and a large, older AC window unit (not EnergyStar compliant) running, too.
as pointed out, one could consider a zine like a paper blog, but they're so much more. As for the scene itself, it's like many other subcultures. Conferences, libraries and archives, people actively creating media which often fall into the "free as in beer" and "free as in speech" catagories.
Of relevance, many zinesters are proponents of the F/OSS movement. At this year's Portland Zine Symposium, a workshop was dedicated to using OSS tools for the creation of zines.
At http://www.qzap.org/(which I am a co-founder of), we're very vocal about using F/OSS software on our servers and some desktops. We recognize that it's not 1992... because of this, we actively hope that people will use what we do and roll their own projects.
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We've almost completed the switch to CF bulbs at home... in the first month (with about 1/3 of the former incandescents switched over) we saved about $15. This was over the summer, when we had the all the computers running, and a large, older AC window unit (not EnergyStar compliant) running, too.
Of relevance, many zinesters are proponents of the F/OSS movement. At this year's Portland Zine Symposium, a workshop was dedicated to using OSS tools for the creation of zines.
At http://www.qzap.org/(which I am a co-founder of), we're very vocal about using F/OSS software on our servers and some desktops. We recognize that it's not 1992... because of this, we actively hope that people will use what we do and roll their own projects.