Archive for the ‘Environment and Sustainability’ Category

Pat Berger of Mercer Color Corporation Shares Environmental Regulatory Resources

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 ...

The Environment

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 ...

Environmental Group Examines The State of the Paper Industry

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 ...

The Environmental-Impact of Magazines

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 ...

How Green is Your Toner?

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) ...

Panel at Corporate Responsibility Conference Examines Sustainability In Paper and Printing Industries

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 ...

Can TransPromo Documents Survive the Push to Paperless?

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 ...

The “Greenest” Book Ever

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 ...

Has Green Become “The New Black” for the Corporate Bottom Line?

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 ...

Rolling Stone - Exactly How “Green?”

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 ...