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LANDFILL: You'll be surprised by what you find there

LANDFILL: You'll be surprised by what you find there

Have you ever had that feeling that your best work is going to end up in landfill?  Well, now you're going to wish it had.  LANDFILL is a collaborative effort published annually by designer Brian Ponto and eco-printer Greg Barber and is perfect design.
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Designing Obama

Designing Obama

An interesting note about sustainable printing from the new "Designing Obama" project:

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Best in Show: This Dog is Paper Trained!

Best in Show: This Dog is Paper Trained!

SPD's 44th annual Gala was a great event, but how did this pedigree pooch stack up on the environment? Bred to win. Our secret?  By printing everything for Competition 44 on 100% recycled paper. We began by sniffing out the best printer for the job - searching for sustainability, without sacrificing quality.
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Video:  The Green Panel

Video: The Green Panel

Watch the video.  Reach us at SPDgoesgreen@gmail.com .



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The Paper Principle

The Paper Principle

Earlier this year, I produced a panel on the effects that magazine production has on the environment; we looked at conventional methods of production and compared them with sustainable manufacturing. The panel covered the entire cycle, from the importance of understanding the source of your paper through to the end life of your magazine.  Throughout the night, the names of publications that use some percentage of recycled paper content were mentioned with collective pride.  These titles were doing it, printing on recycled paper!  We all seem to agree that virgin paper is a no no, but what we didn't have enough time to explore, is why recycled paper manufacturing is so amazing and why we should get excited about it.  I call this The Paper Principle.

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Event Impact

Event Impact

We have a long way to go before producing a zero waste event, but here are some steps we took in organizing our LandSeaAir benefit auction on November 19th.  Keeping our event theme in mind, we wanted to make sure we created as little garbage as possible, while also throwing the best event we could and getting the biggest bang for the buck. One of the decisions we made was to serve drinks in biodegradable drinking cups.
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