By contributing guest author Ida Cheinman, Principal and Creative Director of Substance 151, a strategic design agency for Green Printer‘s “Design Goes Green” series. We live in a time when “sustainability” is topping the buzzword charts and a wave of greenwashing is flooding the mainstream. We live in a time of intense competition, gloomy economic [...]
How Green Is Your Grocery Store?
April 30, 2009 By 2 Comments
Last night Keilly Witman from EPA’s GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership, the program that attempts to get grocery stores to reduce ozone-killing refrigerant leaks, talked at EcoTuesday in DC. What I thought might not be our most exciting topic turned out to be one of the most interesting I’ve heard in the 8 months of co-hosting [...]
Color Comes to Organic Shirts Part II
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One Month Later: The HP OfficeJet 8500
April 29, 2009 By 14 Comments
Update: We’re still using the 8500 in our office, months later. The next green claims we’ll be testing are all about office furniture. It’s not always easy to find certified sustainably-produced furniture at good prices, so what else can be done? We’ll be testing furniture designs that use fewer materials for the same functionality — [...]
Ecopreneur Profile: Jan Joannides and Brett Olson, co-founders of Renewing the Countryside
April 29, 2009 By 1 Comment
In a world overdosed with negativity, Jan Joannides roots for the opposite underdog, building an organization and livelihood around showcasing the positive side of what’s working right. As co-founder of Renewing the Countryside, Joannides created a means to showcase positive examples of rural revitalization while simultaneously serving as an inspiring example of how one’s purpose [...]
