Canon Americas Headquarters in Melville, NY, has been awarded LEED Gold certification, a recognition for the design, construction, operations and maintenance of high-performance green buildings. The Canon Americas Headquarters is the largest commercial property on Long Island to achieve this level of LEED.
Thanks to your efforts—and to those of everyone in the print community who paid that bit extra to go green with you—sustainable has become the new normal, and that is an achievement to be proud of.
We all need to challenge ourselves to learn more about the products we use every day. This means purchasing products from companies that lead the way in sustainability and are making efforts to improve their performance and supply chain, whether it is print, paper or electronic devices.
In its effort to put an end to unsubstantiated and misleading claims that electronic communications are more environmentally friendly than print and paper, Two Sides U.S. announced that over 20 leading U.S. companies have removed their “anti-paper” green claims.
Velocity Print Solutions has purchased renewable energy credits (RECs) from Renewable Choice. The purchase of over 900,000 kWh of American Wind REC’s—which is equivalent to offsetting 1,044,813.85 lbs of CO2—has an environmental impact that is similar to planting 12,152 tree seedlings and growing them for 10 years, or the removal of 98.73 passenger vehicles from the road for a year.
RPI of Seattle has become one of the the first producers of personalized products, such as photobooks, notecards, stationery, and business products, to be recognized and certified by the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP) for its sustainability practices.
Printers and graphic arts professionals will have the opportunity to come together to discuss the latest environmental trends, issues, and impact on the printing industry at the special Green Roundtable event at the Graphics of the Americas Expo & Conference (GOA) at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami. The event will be moderated by Richard Romano.
The Gresham, OR, facility of Unisource Worldwide has earned an ENERGY STAR certification from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This designation is given only to buildings scoring in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency.
Appleton Coated is now offering its category-leading U2:XG 30 percent PCRF recycled no.2 coated paper for the same price as its standard 10 percent PCRF no.2 sheet, Utopia Two. Making ordering easier, it is stocking 69 new U2:XG stock items in its national distribution centers.
Located in Linden, NJ, Cox Printers already has a 36-kilowatt solar energy system and two wind turbines on its own roof. Now, the business has decided to sponsor a portion of a solar panel installed at a local Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post.
