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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Go Green: Making Sustainability a Reality in Your Business, a report from Kodak
Inside are:
10 Sustainability Strategies: A Quick Start Guide for Printers
Glossary of Terms
Resources for Content Creators
Resources for Printers
Bibliography - a list of articles and reports used to compile the document
Learn more here>>
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
There was a time - back in the '70s - when the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) was considered to be an activist group on the lunatic fringe. We've all grown a lot since then!
Since the late '8os, the group has been working with national and multi-national companies to make breakthroughs ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
The first DM News/Pitney Bowes survey on direct mail and the environment sheds some light on current consumer perceptions, and provides mailers seven practical steps to becoming more environmentally responsible. Get your copy of the white paper here>>
Survey results show that consumers greatly overestimate the environmental impact of mail. Not ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Every day we hear more and more about the perils of air travel, it's hard on the passengers and hard on the environment! Frank Romano has long eschewed airplanes, now it is clear that he was ahead of his time. (But then, Frank has always been a bit ahead of ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
It's possible to make paper out of just about anything, as long as there is some cellulose fiber in it. Today, CanWest News Service announced that the latest edition of Canadian Geographic Magazine has been printed on paper made from wheat-straw waste using technologies developed by the Edmonton-based Alberta ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Three new reports have been added to our Resource section, go to the Reports, Papers, and Studies page to get more details. We will be continuing to add new documents regularly, don't miss any!
State of Green Business - a report from Greener World Media
Get a copy of this January 2008 ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
For the seventh Annual Printing Innovation with Xerox Imaging (PIXI) Awards, Xerox has sent out a call for entries with a new category - "Environmental Award."
This year the Environmental Award will go to an application that demonstrates the qualities of an environmentally-conscious print shop that follows sustainable business practices such ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Well, folks, we're definitely approaching the top of the "Green" Hype Cycle! How do we know?
We've been told that "green is the new black," taken from the fashion world, and also that "green is the new green," as in money. And everyone wants to go green!
Trademark filings may not be ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
HOW 08 Design Conference, through May 21, Haynes Conference Center, Boston
Whether you ARE a graphic designer, EMPLOY a graphic designer, WORK with a graphic designer, if you're within reasonable distance of Boston - get to the HOW08 Design Conference going on now!
It's titled "The creative, business and technology conference for ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
June in Bar Harbor, Maine, should be beautiful! The Gravure Association of America (GAA) chose it as the location for their Environmental Workshop, to be held June 17-19, at the Atlantic Oakes Resort. It also seems fitting that LL Bean - of Freeport, Maine - would be co-chairing the event.
Who ...
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