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How I Created a (Nearly) Paperless Office
I’ve found that nothing weighs more than paper — at least when you are tired and at the end of your day, and the boss wants you to recycle that [ … ]
Should the Phone Book be an Opt-In Service?
How many times a year do you leave your house to find a thousand-plus book of names and numbers waiting for you on your stoop or drive? This has become [ … ]
Student Activists Fight Paper Waste: Use the Backside
Two-sided printing is slowly becoming standard practice in many business and non-profit settings… why recycled a sheet of paper before you’re used it completely? That idea often doesn’t translate, though, [ … ]
Can Recycled Paper for Magazines Ever Compete on Costs? Yes…
Much has made about environmental impact of switching from paper books to electronic reading devices: a recent lifecycle assessment by environmental journalist Daniel Goleman shows that you have to read [ … ]
sustainablog Approved: Way Basics’ Recycled Paper Furnishings
Editor’s note: sustainablog Approved is an occasional series of posts profiling vendors in our Green Choices product comparison engine, and the stories behind their products and green business practices. Looking [ … ]
Earth Policy Institute: Protecting and Restoring Forests
By Lester R. Brown Protecting the earth’s nearly 4 billion hectares of remaining forests and replanting those already lost are both essential for restoring the earth’s health, an important foundation [ … ]
Eco-Libris: The State of Green Printing – An Interview with Deb Bruner of Pinnacle Press
This post was originally posted on Eco-Libris blog on March 18. We’re constantly talking about the need of the book industry to increase its efforts to lower its environmental impacts [ … ]
Monoculture Tree Plantations Negatively Impact Women’s Lives
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8th, a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women, the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) and Friends of the [ … ]
Zumbox: A Viable Paper Mail Killer?
[social_buttons]What are the environmental costs of “snail mail?” That’s easy, right: paper-based mail has a massive footprint when one takes into account the harvesting of trees, the production of paper, [ … ]
Paper Matters
Paper appears to be high on the agenda of a number of organizations this week. It’s necessary. Paper is so ubiquitous – from tissues to toilet paper to memo pads [ … ]
The Twelve Days of sustainablog: Bibles, High Gas Prices, and Tent-based Traumas
While July 2008 looked relatively normal in terms of Fourth of July celebrations and hot weather, $4 per gallon gas put a damper on that other summertime staple: the family [ … ]
Want to Green Your Addiction to Books? Buy Ebooks
OK, I admit it: I’m a book whore (hardly a shocking confession for a former English professor). I’m most vulnerable to impulse buying in a book store. When a publishing [ … ]