Articles tagged “Eco-Friendly Printing”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Inkjet-Inspired Gadget 'Prints' New Skin Cells Over Burns By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Apr 9 2010 Researchers at Wake Forest University have rigged up a device that can spray new skin cells onto burn victims. Really. Inspired by the standard inkjet printer, the device quickly protects and helps heal a burn wound. The procedure could supplant skin grafts as the standard treatment for burn victims. The researchers have mounted the device on a frame so that it can be wheeled directly over a patient in a hospital bed. A laser takes a reading of the wound's shape and size, so that the precise amount of skin cells can be applied exactly where they're needed. + READ MORE

Reading Newspapers Can Be Greener than Getting News Online By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Mar 31 2009 It seems clear cut, right? But the gist is this—depending on how long it takes you to read the news online, you're likely using a decent amount of electricity while you do. + READ MORE

Fly on a Zero Emissions Airline, Print Your Own Money, Read the Dead Tree Blog, and Find the Best Green Jobs By David DeFranza IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 27 2009 Today on TreeHugger: Fly on a zero emissions airline, print your own money, read the dead tree blog, and find the best green jobs + READ MORE

Try Out the 5 Best Kinds of Tree-Free Paper By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Jan 20 2009 Do you have any idea how much paper we still waste every year in the US, despite the fact that we're in the midst of this so-called digital revolution? It's a lot—it still makes up for a third (32.7 %, as of 2007) of our entire municipal waste, which is 254 million tons, according to the EPA. Half the trees felled in the US every year are used for paper, and an estimated 30-40 percent of our landfills are filled with paper waste. + READ MORE

Cut Back On Paper Use Everywhere in Your Office By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Jan 13 2009 A lot of offices today are becoming increasingly paperless. People are slowly adapting to the digital world and relinquishing once held attachments to paper that no longer belong. But is your office reducing unnecessary paper waste in every way possible? Sending more emails is great and so is cutting back on printing, but here are some less obvious ways in which your office may still be more of an eco-offender than is necessary. + READ MORE

10 First Steps Your Small Business Can Take to Be Greener By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Work & Connect Dec 30 2008 Offices can be rife with waste—from electricity to paper, from furniture to ink. And yet there are many easy steps a business can take to significantly reduce its impact without having to make radical changes. In fact, there are quite a few changes an office manager can implement without staffers even catching a whiff of green intent. + READ MORE

Put An Eco-Message On Your Old Tee with Fabric Paint By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Dec 4 2008 Customizing clothing in an eco-friendly manner is easy these days. With the ability to print on iron-on transfer paper, we can all personalize our wardrobes in a flash. But with all of these readily available printing options, I think it's important that we not forget the age-old art of fabric paint. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Green Ink By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 4 2008 In the realm of sustainable offices, green ink could refer to what the folks at EcoPrint.com call "standard eco-ink" which is "vegetable oil-based, containing less than 2% volatile organic compounds (VOCs). + READ MORE

Don't Use White-Out By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Dec 3 2008 I come to you today with an important question. Do People Still Use White-Out? I remember this gooey stuff from when I was in elementary school. If I'd worked hard to print a paper with a typewriter, White-Out could truly save my life if I caught a mistake without enough time to retype the paper. Besides, retyping the entire paper would be sort of anti-environment, anyway. + READ MORE

Set Your Printer for Green-ficiency By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Tech & Transport Nov 19 2008 While the idea of printing makes us squirm a little, sometimes it is unavoidable. However, we can make the most of our printing by following a few easy guidelines and playing with Printing Preferences. + READ MORE

Print Less: Make Just One Copy Do the Job By Megan Cohen IN Work & Connect Nov 18 2008 Stretching just one copy to do the job of several can save you time and trouble, save your company money, and it's definitely an eco-smart habit to get into. Whether you've got a laser printer or an inkjet printer, and even if you're printing on recycled paper, the greenest printer is one that's barely used. + READ MORE

Green the Cover Sheet on Your Faxes By Megan Cohen IN Work & Connect Nov 17 2008 These 3 eco-smart alternatives to printing out a traditional cover sheet for your faxes are just as clear and professional as a regular cover page, but won't waste paper.The next time you shoot off an important fax try one of these green ideas, and save a tree while you get your message out. + READ MORE

Use the Other Side of that Piece of Paper By Megan Cohen IN Work & Connect Nov 11 2008 A lot of the sheets of paper in your recycling bin have only been printed on one side. That means there's a whole big blank expanse of totally usable paper, and all you have to do to get at it is flip the sheet. + READ MORE

Meet Change Maker Andrew Field of PrintingForLess.com By Eric Leech IN Work & Connect Oct 30 2008 With its massive use of chemicals and waste, the printing industry has a huge environmental footprint. And while many of us are working toward a paperless office, we all know that it's easier said than done. Cleaner, greener printing is good step forward, but it means more than just using recycled paper. + READ MORE

Let's End the Flyer-on-Car Scourge By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 9 2008 At this very moment, some poor soul who makes minimum wage is putting a flyer on a car somewhere. Nobody likes these flyers. I've never heard anyone say, "Oh boy! A flyer!" Not only are these flyers annoying and unsafe, they also waste trees and generate a ton of litter. There must be a way to stop this. + READ MORE

Nickelodeon Paves Greener Office Path and You Can Too By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Oct 8 2008 It's funny to me that so many people infuse themselves with vigor and cause during their college years, only to settle quickly into mediocrity in their post-degree lives. Haha. So many young adults who stood for change during their schooling eventually evolve into office drones who don't feel they've got a say. + READ MORE

Green Your Printing: Print with Recycled Paper By Brian Merchant IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 1 2008 If you work in an office (or ever have), you've probably got a pretty good idea of how much paper gets used—wasted—every day. Even those who haven't spent time in an office have probably done their fair share of printing too—students with reports, writers with their drafts, and everyone printing out directions on Mapquest. I know I do. + READ MORE

Recommend Soy Ink Toner for Your Office! By Leslie Billera IN Work & Connect Sep 25 2008 Get the Office Manager on the line! Most U.S. offices use laser printers, millions of machines that guzzle up toner at a rate of 100 million cartridges a year. + READ MORE

When Not To Print Your Resume By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Sep 19 2008 More and more people are opting not to print of their resumes during their job searches these days. When I suggest this to friends of mine in need for a job, most of them seem insulted by the very idea of not printing a resume. While it is expected to print a resume in many situations, it isn't expected in all situations. + READ MORE

3 Eco Friendly Ways to Print a Manuscript By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Sep 12 2008 I recently had to print a manuscript. I wanted to avoid this as much as possible because I didn't want to use up the amount of paper it was going to require, but at the end of the day, I couldn't avoid it. It's very difficult to try to get a manuscript for a book together without being able to actually feel and flip the pages. Virtual pages can only go so far in helping you understand how a book should feel when it is read. Since I needed to do this, regardless of what I really wanted to do, I did it as greenly as I could and here are my follow-up tips for you. + READ MORE