green printing

Green Printer pick no. 1 - Chegg.com is for your high schooler, not your eight year old but the top textbook rental company in the U.S. - who already offers millions of textbooks for rent with savings of up to 80% - will now plant a tree for every book your Timbaland-listening-15-year-old Forest Citizen rents.

And so, after scouring the web, the awards for the widgets with the greatest ‘coolness factor’ and the ones you can actually use to measure and improve your organization’s sustainability bottom line go to…

Best C02 tracking widget: C02 Stats Who: Yale and Harvard research whizzes Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross and Timothy M. Sullivan.

And so, after scouring the web, the awards for the widgets with the greatest ‘coolness factor’ and the ones you can actually use to measure and improve your organization’s sustainability bottom line go to…

Best C02 tracking widget: C02 Stats Who: Yale and Harvard research whizzes Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross and Timothy M. Sullivan.

This week, greenwash fatigued bloggers (Gawker describes it as improbable a real news item as ‘the hot dog industry going vegetarian’) and non-profit spokespersons turned a skeptical eye on a group of direct marketing companies called the Green Marketing Coalition (GMC).

A survey of the top ten environmental pet peeves among over 1,569 adult U.S. and Canadian office workers by Harris Interactive: 1. Mindless printing resulting in increased waste (40%); 2. Leaving lights on (37%); 3. Lack of recycling bins (33%); 4.

How can a leader stop green fatigue from stymieing the ongoing efforts of its staff? Here are the five S’s to keep sustainability flourishing from the inside out: 1. Shake things up; 2. Show honesty; 3. Scintillating conversation and; 4. Step down.

"Paper is a tremendously resource-intensive product to produce," explains project manager Victoria Mills, "and the decomposition of paper in landfills generates methane, a greenhouse gas with 23 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide."

For all those days when you believe your green values aren’t aligned with your workplace but you can’t - or don’t want to - make the eco-entrepreneur step, here are some immediate action steps to try out at the office this Monday.

Remember: while many green teams start from humble beginnings, they can grow exponentially - pent up passion for green amongst employees can be powerful driving force.

Ever wondered how much energy and thought it took to produce that shiny brochure your marketing staff handed to you this week? And no, it’s not just the brand and visual design genius we’re talking about.

If you’re the latter or if you are a green procurer, you probably want to streamline the “boom!

The big names cannot help but pump out more sustainable paper products on an almost weekly basis. From biology college textbooks gone green to carbon friendly greeting cards, we’ve rounded up the top ten green papier goods that caught our eye.

We’ve come this far in our exasperation with junk mail-apalooza and now people are luring us with cold, hard cash (or the beauty of planting a tree) to get us to stop receiving virgin-forest-eating junk mail.

An interview with Professor Tim McNeil of the UC Davis Design Museum on the ExhibiTricks blog.

Filled with great information and resources for everyone interested in green design.

 

 

 

 

So, for all you energizer bunnies out there, here are a few tips from Montreal based Vivace Design ‘ s Karine Himbeault that, incidentally, we found take 60 seconds or less to actually carry out. Oh and Vivace Design produced a stunning portfolio following their advice. Gone gorgeous green in less than 60? Read on.

I caught the "story of stuff": a 20-minute, fast-paced look at the dark underbelly of our consumption patterns. The clip exposes the links between a host of environmental and social issues while showing you the real cost of that $5 radio (metals from South Africa, 14 years olds from the Congo dropping out of school to work in factories...).