Articles tagged “Eco-Friendly Printing”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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

Did You Know?: Wasted Office Paper Wall By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect Aug 28 2008 Did you know that you could build a twelve-foot high wall from New York to Los Angeles using the paper consumed in a year? Did you know that a wall like that would be very hard to maintain? Did you know that wind, rain and vandals would destroy that wall in less than a month? Did you know that the wall is only hypothetical and used to illustrate the severity of our paper wastage? Did you know that you can do something about that hypothetical wall? + READ MORE

Attention Musicians: How to Print Your CDs the Eco Way By Elizabeth Seward IN Tech & Transport Aug 25 2008 As a musician, I have often doubted whether or not I should even print actual cds. These days, it's easier and easier just to put music online to share with friends and fans. It doesn't make as much sense to me to print cds as it once did. Nonetheless, it's understandable to want to print at least a small batch of cds. + READ MORE

Greening the Tween Celebrity Fix By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 12 2008 Miley Cyrus may be becoming more green these days, especially with her new single about saving the planet, but she's not the only member of her generation trying to make a difference. More and more tweens and teens alike are doing their part to put their feet down about all things green. This is awesome because they're all the future of our country. However, there is one little thing about the tween and teen industries that doesn't exactly cater to an eco-friendly initiative. You know what that one thing is? STUFF. + READ MORE

Did You Know?: Don't Let Your Car Idle By Josh Peterson IN Tech & Transport Aug 8 2008 The automobile is one of the most important inventions in the history of mankind. It's up there with the printing press, fire, the internet and the wheel. Cars, however, are not that great for the environment. + READ MORE

Green Models Print Eco Portfolios, Don't Wear Fur By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 6 2008 Here in New York City, models seem to be on every corner. Even I've done modeling here and there. It's easy to get sucked into the 'scene,' but it's important to remember to stay green--even when it comes down to your job/hobby. + READ MORE

Green Your Reading By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Jul 29 2008 And we're not just talking about the subject matter. While our previous post on books for green beginners was designed to point readers to the right kind of green-minded material, we never mentioned what to do with the paperbacks after they've been thoroughly parsed and perused. + READ MORE

Glam up Your Dinner Party with Eco-Friendly Menus By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 27 2008 Whether it's for a small dinner party or an enormous sit down affair, event menus will add extra glam to your special event.Additionally, it's much easier to recycle paper that was printed with soy ink.The ink washes away more easily than its petroleum counterpart making the recycled products brighter and clearer. + READ MORE

Print Less, Work Better By Megan Cohen IN Stuff Happens Jul 19 2008 Minimizing the volume of paper flying out of your office printer is way environmentally smart, and helps you stay efficient on the job. A couple of easy eco-habits can trim the number of pages stacking up on your desk... + READ MORE

Fall in Love With The TreeHugger Book By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect May 20 2008 All of the delicious eco-bits and pieces have been culled together in one comprehensive place--TreeHugger's hot-off-the-press book, Ready, Set. Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living. Founder, Graham Hill and Editor-In-Chief, Meaghan O'Neill lay down the steps to a low-impact life without just listing off tips. + READ MORE

Make a Printer-Friendly Web Page By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Mar 7 2008 Let's face it, some Web pages are just easier to read on paper, whether it's due to one too many flashy, blinking advertisements, or because the length of a story was starting to make our eyes water. Jennifer Kymin from About.com steps us through the process of making your Web site more printer-friendly, from changing... + READ MORE

Go Paperless in your Home Office By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Feb 11 2008 Discussions with my editor from my paperless home office Over in TreeHugger, there is a discussion about how homes are going paperless more quickly than offices. Many have tried to reduce their paper use at home in different ways, including getting and paying bills online, but as the old joke says, "The paperless... + READ MORE

Save Ink, Money, Planet with GreenPrint By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Jan 29 2008 We've covered plenty of money- and paper-saving printing tricks in the past, including printing on both sides of each sheet and narrowing your Word document margins. Here's another one for Windows PCs: GreenPrint World, a free downloadable app that highlights and strips away unnecessary pages, such as images you'd... + READ MORE

Send, Receive Faxes Online By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Jan 11 2008 In July 2007, green-lifestyle guru Danny Seo asked if the fax machine was obsolete. When a fax is absolutely necessary, Seo relies on tree-free online faxing, which converts in and outbound documents to electronic images, before transmitting them through e-mail. + READ MORE

Refill Your Old Ink Cartridge By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Dec 7 2007 A common lure that printer manufacturers use on unsuspecting consumers is to sell the hardware below market value (even if it means losing money), and then rake in a continuous stream of profits through consumables such as toner and ink. One downside: Although you'll be able to print without incident, your refilled... + READ MORE

Conduct an Office Waste Audit By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Dec 5 2007 What's in your trash? Analyze business processes: Examine purchasing records to weed out extraneous supplies you're overstocking on, as well as to identify items that can be replaced with eco-friendlier options-using recycled printer paper versus virgin materials, for instance, or replacing disposable Styrofoam and... + READ MORE

Think Before You Print That Email By Collin Dunn IN Tech & Transport Nov 20 2007 An estimated 97 billion emails whisk through cyberspace every day; while you may not be able to stem the tide of your overflowing email box, there's an easy action to help the planet that you can take with each message that zooms into your box: please consider the planet before printing that email. + READ MORE

Green Your Alma Mater: Six Ways By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Nov 6 2007 Whether it's through socially responsible investments, the use of recycled paper, or sweatshop-free purchasing, you can help your university take its first steps toward going green. You might even consider splitting your regular gift between the school's annual fund and a student group that is working for fair labor... + READ MORE