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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Get "Down to Earth" with International Paper and pick up your copies of these publications. A definite must read is Pixels vs. Paper since there seems to be some confusion as to which is "best." Actually neither is best, both have their places in modern communication. David Struhs, International Paper's vice ...Monday, June 29th, 2009
Got a little vacation time planned? A few days on the beach? A little get-away to the mountains? Lest you get bored with all that relaxation, here is a baker's dozen to choose from when you pack your summertime reading. There are lots more on the WhatTheyThink Going Green Reading ...Friday, June 26th, 2009
Patty Calkins, VP of Environment, Health & Safety for Xerox, regularly publishes her thoughts on sustainability and today she addresses the importance of thinking big when thinking green. Good news on the environmental front: The message IS getting through. Global warming and climate change are real threats to the future of the ...Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
(Click here for the virtual tour of Bison Bookbinding and Letterpress) Who would have thought you could find a small printing company that runs seven presses and nine pieces of bindery equipment - most of which date from the 19th century - next to a polymer platemaker and a Xerox DocuColor, ...Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Are you absent? Ambitious? Where are you on the sustainability spectrum? Better yet, where are your customers? Appleton Coated has put together a handy guide - The Green Outlook 2009 - to help you move along the sustainability continuum. And while you're making your plans and checking your list, open the booklet ...Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Several weeks ago, we published yet another checklist for going green and Thomas Lasik, one of our readers, pointed out: "There's already an extremely comprehensive 'checklist' available as part of a holistic green certification program called the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership." Well, Thomas, you're right! Today we present a round table panel discussion ...Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Christine Mau, Associate Director of Packaging Graphics, for Kimberly-Clark, has a unique job: she designs Kleenex® boxes. But that's not all; Christine is responsible for the packaging for a wide range of products most people use every day, like toilet tissue, paper towels and paper napkins, including Kleenex, Scott®, Viva®, ...Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Labels of some sort have adorned bottles, boxes, and bags for hundreds of years. The turn of the seventeenth century saw the first "modern" packaging. Hand-blown bottles were wrapped in paper made sheet-by-sheet and printed on a hand press. Even then the label, which could be a detailed and wordy broadside ...Friday, June 12th, 2009
This 150+ page guide and resource kit - Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-based Products (Ver. 1.1, June 2009) - covers everything you wanted to know about sourcing paper and paper products. According to the authors, the publication "was created to help procurement managers make informed choices;" specifically it: Identifies and explains ...Thursday, June 11th, 2009
For the first time, as an experiment in online communication, WhatTheyThink Going Green and the principles of PrintResponsibly.com - Christopher Gravagna and Don Miller - conducted a "slow motion interview" with SKYPE chat. Here's the result.
