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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Paul Rossi, Economist publisher for North America says that the magazine industry needs to be prepared to respond to environmental groups that target wasteful practices of the magazine trade.
"We as an industry are next on the list as a target," Mr. Rossi said, speaking at a breakfast hosted by the ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
All this year major printing equipment manufacturers have been quietly telling anyone who'd listen about how "green" they are. Some of this is hype, some real, but it's good to see these companies paying attention. We all know that as a manufacturing process, printing (never mind making the necessary paper) ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
I attended the CRO Conference this morning at the Union League Club in downtown Chicago. The CRO Conference dubs itself as the "only event dedicated to increasing the professional capacity of the newest corporate leadership role—the Corporate Responsibility Officer."
The opening panel at the conference was a discussion on "Corporate Responsibility ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Cary's review of the InfoTrends TransPromo Summit had me digging through all my recent statements and transactional documents looking for prime examples of the application.
As I hunted through my filing cabinet looking for TransPromo documents, I received a marketing email from from Chase Bank detailing the environmental benefits of going ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
The Harry Potter book series is one of the most successful ever, also making it one of the most natural resource intensive. This lead Vancouver-based Markets Initiative to approach Harry Potter Canadian publisher Raincoast Books with ideas on how minimize the impact of producing millions of copies of books. Fast ...
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Sunday, June 24th, 2007
Don Carli, the sustainability advocate and the subject of a recent post at PrintCEOblog.com, continues to draw attention to his message about environmental responsibility for industries that produce or use print. On June 14 in New York City, he led a panel discussion sponsored by his organization, the Institute for ...
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
Last week the venerable publication (at least to those of us who have a little memory about what happened in the '60s) - the Rolling Stone - announced that beginning June 28th, the publication would be "carbon neutral." OK - good intentions... The press release said that the Rolling Stone ...
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