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Re:Pen Refills Guide by olah_1 on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:15AM (#20506880)
What is the most environmentally friendly analog writing tool?

How is ink made? Is it less invasive than mining graphite, etc?

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Re:Pen Refills Guide by dwringer on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:46AM (#20507657)
> What is the most environmentally friendly analog writing tool?

I don't know how practical it is, but the wax tablet[1][2] is perhaps the closest thing meeting this description that I've seen currently available [that I can think of, anyway]. No personal endorsement or any agreements or experience one way or the other with the seller, just something I found and thought was interesting.

[1] https://www.scribalworkshop.com/shop/historic-wax-tablet

[2] https://www.scribalworkshop.com/blog/2019/6/5/how-to-use-a-w...

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Re:Pen Refills Guide by kps on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @12:29PM (#20507977)
Write on vast amounts of acid-free paper, which will happily sequester some carbon for a thousand years.
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Re:Pen Refills Guide by uurrnn on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:22AM (#20506932)
Blood? It's renewable.
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