Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Book publishers Simon & Schuster, Inc. has announced it will increase the recycled content of books printed and bound in the U.S. from 10% to 15%: announced today a new environmental initiative and paper policy that will dramatically increase the amount of recycled fiber in the paper used to manufacture its ...Thursday, November 15th, 2007
North America's largest paper and forest products company is not only facing a financial crisis, they are finding themselves on the wrong side of the forest management practices debate. AbitibiBowater Inc. the newly formed company resulting form the merger of Abitibi-Consolidated and Bowater Incorporated has found itself the target of ...Monday, November 12th, 2007
In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations That quote is from The Great Law of The Iroquois Confederacy. Native Americans always did have it about right in terms of the impact we have on the planet and how to minimize ...Thursday, November 1st, 2007
How important is FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification in the printing industry? Just go to WhatTheyThink.com and search on "FSC." A search this morning resulted in 141 references; the most recent on 10/29 and the earliest in March of 2005. On 10/25, WTT posted an interview with Hemlock Printers reviewing ...Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Today's Book Show on Australia's ABC Radio National examined sustainable publishing in Australia: Each year, vast quantities of books are printed and purchased in Australia. But have you ever wondered where all the paper for these books comes from? Well, with awareness growing about sustainability in agriculture, architectural design and in town ...Monday, October 29th, 2007
Hemlock Printers a family-owned printing company located in Vancouver BC, Canada has developed a comprehensive strategy to embrace sustainability and reduce the impact its operations and products have on the environment. Last week, Gail Nickel-Kailing sat down with members of Hemlock's Sustainability Committee to find out what the printer is doing ...Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Folio magazine is reporting that Rachael Ray's magazine Everyday with Rachael Ray has switched to recycled paper: Magazine publishers may be slow in making the switch to recycled paper, but one of the industry’s biggest success stories of the last few years is already there. Last week Everyday with Rachael Ray—whose advertising ...Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Pat Berger, vice president of Mercer Color Corporation shared a link to environmental regulatory resources the Printing Industries of Northern California (PINC) has published since last May in their PIC Government Affairs Watchdog newsletter. Berger writes: The Control Techniques Guidelines for Offset Lithographic Printing and Letterpress Printing (PDF Link) are the a ...Monday, October 15th, 2007
Today is blog action day - bloggers around the web are uniting to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Coverage of environmental issues is not new to the PrintCEO blog and I invite you to check out the Environment category for all the blog posts. The folks ...Thursday, October 4th, 2007
The Environmental Paper Network, a consortium of environmental advocacy groups lobbying for pulp sourced using socially and environmentally responsible methods has released a new report on The State of the Paper Industry, Monitoring the Indicators of Environmental Performance. The report outlines a Common Vision for Transforming the Paper Industry: Eliminate excessive ...
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