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Most people would be surprised to learn that the paper and printing industry has ranked fourth among the manufacturing industries in the amount of energy used. Producing paper and the electricity used for factory operations, as well as the actual printing process, demand lots of energy.
Our partner Bacchus Press understands this. Mansoor Assadi told [...]

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Ok, so maybe the title is a bit dramatic, but Margie Ryan at 41pounds.org just informed me of updated numbers on junk mail that I think are staggering.
4.5 million tons of junk mail goes out yearly, of which 44% goes straight to the landfill unopened and unread.
This amounts to 100 million trees being cut down [...]

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CarbonFree® Partner PacificDisc is making huge strides in the DVD and CD storage industry: not only offering post-consumer recycled storage cases, but also offering an offset program for their customers.  They are committed to integrating new eco-friendly packaging choices to help preserve our planet, and are neutralizing their footprint by offering an option to offset [...]

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Cardstore.com, an online retailer of personalized stationery products is now a CarbonFree® Partner. Conscious about the sustainability aspect of its business, Cardstore.com works to minimize its impact on the environment. This is why Cardstore.com decided to partner with Carbonfund.org to offset the remaining emissions from their electricity use for printing.
Some of their efforts to green [...]

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