Monday, June 30th, 2008
We've added a new resource - The Lean and Environment Toolkit - to our Resources page. The Toolkit focuses on the identification and how to pursue environmental end points in your processes through Kaizen Events, 6S (5S + Safety); and Value Stream Mapping. "Lean Manufacturing" has been a key concept discussed ...Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Today's mail brought a copy of Really Green by Debra Lynn Dadd. It's a print-on-demand book, printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper on a Xerox iGen. Fits the bill of being a book that is produced by green processes, but it's also a book about "green." Sometimes it's easy to ...Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Montana is a state that combines rolling prairies and mountains; a beautiful state! I just finished a short vacation there and my radar is tuned to anything Montana-related. Through the serendipity of the Internet, I've discovered Montana's Department of Environmental Quality and a list of manufacturers and retailers who will take ...Friday, June 20th, 2008
The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group has a new process called THINKTech that allows books to be printed on a heat-set web press without any curing. Some of the benefits are: The process uses a special ink and fountain solution that results in VOC emission levels in the 1-2.5% range for ...Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
A Field Guide: Eco-Friendly, Efficient, and Effective Print Monadnock Paper Mills has updated A Field Guide to help printers and designers use natural resources more efficiently to produce printed communications. For more information, go to our Resources page, or get your copy here>> from Monadnock. .Monday, June 16th, 2008
Getting our arms - and our minds - around "green printing" is definitely a challenge! Here's a little quiz to check the validity of what we think we know about "green printing:" Using FSC/SFI papers makes a print project "green." True or false? Check out what Vic Barkin has to say about ...Thursday, June 12th, 2008
On Earth Day 2008, WhatTheyThink hosted a webinar titled "The Value of Certifications as a Business Strategy" that attracted more than 500 registrants. Companies who are building a sustainable strategy and focusing on good corporate citizenship are looking to third-party certification to validate their strategies to the market. Should your ...Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
On Earth Day 2008, WhatTheyThink hosted a webinar titled "The Value of Certifications as a Business Strategy" that attracted more than 500 registrants. Companies who are building a sustainable strategy and focusing on good corporate citizenship are looking to third-party certification to validate their strategies to the market. Should your ...Monday, June 9th, 2008
Sustainability: What Being GREEN Really Means and How to Market Your “Greenness” Effectively, June 10-11, 2008, Plainview NY Printing Industries Alliance, Long Island Chapter, and Printing News will co-sponsor two programs on June 10 and June 11 that CEOs, CFOs, environmental/procurement/operations managers, and sales/marketing team members won’t want to miss. Sessions include: How ...Monday, June 9th, 2008
Last week in Making Your Trade Shows Green, we offered some advice from event organizer and exhibit designer/manufacturer MC2. You can get a copy of a handy little presentation that outlines lots of ways to ensure that trade show participation "treads lightly" on the environment. At drupa, Xerox has taken the ...
