Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Another voice enters the fray. From across the pond, the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has launched a brochure called “Paper Myths and Facts: A Balanced View.” The online edition features a series of clickable “myths” that links to text that dispels those myths, albeit focusing largely on the UK ...Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Here’s a trivia question for your next cocktail party or happy hour: who invented the e-reader? True, today’s iPads, Nooks, and Kindles are descendents of earlier devices, but few of us would look back further than perhaps the 1990s—arguably the 1980s if we were charitable. But what about 1940s-era Spain?Via ...Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Via Two Sides, an interesting look at the challenges that the city of Chicago is facing as it attempts to “go paperless.” What I especially like about this story is that at no point is “the environment” invoked as the reason for eschewing the mounds of paper that a large ...Monday, January 28th, 2013
A few stories and comments from around the Internet on the impact of “technology” on the environment, and what some companies are doing about it. Over at GreenBiz, a good interview with Darren Beck, Manager of Corporate Responsibility at Sprint. Sprint has been one of the leading telecom companies—if not the ...Monday, January 28th, 2013
WhatTheyThink’s Going Green has joined forces with Two Sides to help address the “perceptions” that paper destroys forests, that electronic media are “greener” than print and paper, and that recycling is the solution to all environmental ills. The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) tells us that “Paper and paperboard recovery ...Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Via The Facebook Machine, Deborah Corn continues to get to the bottom of things vis-à-vis #Paperless2013 and it looks like we have been fingering the wrong folks. It wasn’t Google—it was Barzini all along. Or, no, actually, it was a company called Hello Fax. Whilst I can’t recall the last ...Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Unisource Worldwide announced yesterday that its transportation fleet has met the requirements to be become part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay Transport Partnership. The SmartWay Transport Partnership is a program by which shippers and freight carriers commit to tracking fuel consumption, benchmarking their progress on emissions and fuel consumption, ...Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Killah in Manilla: Hearst's Green Reputation Tarnished by Subsidiary (Dead Tree Edition) BSR's look ahead for sustainable business in 2013 (GreenBiz) “The heat is on for the planet as a whole, but what has been happening where you live?” (Interactive climate change map at New Scientist) [h/t Don C. on The Facebook ...Monday, January 21st, 2013
Is your community, business, or school committed to paper recycling? Do you have a unique, innovative, and/or successful program in place? If so, why not enter the AF&PA Paper Recycling Contest? The winning program receives $2,000, original framed artwork, and recognition among one’s peers. New this year, schools have the opportunity ...Friday, January 18th, 2013
And the beat goes on. Lakeland, Fla.’s Douglass Screen Printers is the latest facility—and the first in the Sunshine State—to receive certification by the Sustainable Green Printing (SGP) Partnership. The company was founded in 1939 and today comprises a “close-knit family” of more than 40 artists, printers and support personnel ...
