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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Got a few solar panels on your shopping list? No problem! Just pick up a few at your local Sam's Club or swing by IKEA. (Note to self: some assembly required!) Sam's Club - Wal-Mart's wholesale division - is offering solar panels and other energy saving products at nine Home Efficiency ...Thursday, August 28th, 2008
The Ventura County (CA) Sustainability Council has tackled environmental issues for a number of years, they are not "johnny come lately" players in the green space. The group is in the process of designing a new website and logo and draft designs included the dollar symbol, much to the consternation ...Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Mandy Haggith is a freelance writer, researcher and activist. She has spent the past decade campaigning for the world’s forests, including lobbying at the United Nations, working as a consultant for Greenpeace and WWF and writing articles for Pulp and Paper International and Resurgence magazine. While researching her book, Paper Trails, ...Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
More and more companies are adding "Sustainability Managers" or other folks responsible for corporate sustainability activities; sometimes it help to ask: "What does a sustainability department do?" GreenBiz.com recently posted a piece explaining it here>> Briefly, author Daniel Winokur tells us that:Monday, August 25th, 2008
There are plenty of ways to use smarter design to reduce materials and energy in the production of printed materials and to ensure that they can be recycled at "end of life." A conversation between Debra Rizzi of Rizco Design and Jonathan Bardelline, GreenBiz Radio, is full of really good ...Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Heidi Tolliver-Nigro, a regular contributor to WhatTheyThink and long time researcher for TrendWatch/Industry Measure, has a post on a blog called The Inspired Economist. She starts off her first post jumping right into the tug-of-war between printed materials and their digital alternatives with: "In marketing, electronic alternatives are often framed as ...Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Greenwashing - or the perception of consumers that they are being misled by a company regarding the environmental practices of the company or the environmental benefits of a product or service (according to Wikipedia) - is something that should be avoided at all costs. When you're making your "green pitches," check ...Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
John Simonetta, owner of Proforma Green, a Proforma print distributorship, posted comments about 3M's move to go green on Ecopreneurist. Proforma, the Print Services & Distribution Association's (PSDA) Largest Print Distributor in North America for two years running, is a print distributorship with more than 600 member offices in the ...Monday, August 18th, 2008
Monadnock Paper Mills has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program and pledged to reduce its corporate-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. What is the Climate Leaders program? An EPA industry-government partnership, the Climate Leaders program works with companies to develop comprehensive climate change strategies. Partner companies commit to reducing their ...Friday, August 15th, 2008
Any and all comments are greatly appreciated and every post has a place where you can add your comments, thoughts, agreements, or disagreements. Occasionally comments come directly to me, and I'd like to share one that I received yesterday regarding the post containing a list of paper procurement ideas from ForestEthics ...
