Archive for December, 2006
Each session of Pictorial University revolves around a different theme related to print production. The theme for the spring 2006 session is Pictorial University: QualityWorks™, with an underlying story of Quality + Sustainability = Profitability. Broadly, the upcoming session will address the role of brand management in corporate communications.
More on the event specific here
Here’s another [...]
December 29th, 2006 | Posted in Green Jobs | No Comments
I saw a rep from this company give a presentation a while ago. They look like a good company with a good product.
Sustainable paper products from Domtar.
December 29th, 2006 | Posted in Paper | No Comments
Does this worry anyone else? First, if we can’t sustain ourselves on the current animal population, maybe we should rethink a couple things like diet and population. Second, what exactly are “virtually indistinguishable” cloned animals?
WASHINGTON - The government declared Thursday that food from cloned animals is safe to eat. After more than five years [...]
December 28th, 2006 | Posted in Organic food | No Comments
Even a bit of holiday baking and eating has an environmental impact.
SEATTLE - Researchers at the University of Washington say all that holiday baking and eating has an environmental impact — Puget Sound is being flavored by cinnamon and vanilla. “Even something as fun as baking for the holiday season has an environmental effect,” said [...]
December 28th, 2006 | Posted in Sea | No Comments
Chocolate is my weakness. I have spent many a nights up late working, munching on Newman’s Own Champion Chip Cookies.
But is wasn’t until this holiday season that I was given what I think is the best organic chocolate I have ever tasted. I had the Toffee Delight which is:
Made with organic bittersweet chocolate and organic [...]
December 27th, 2006 | Posted in Organic food | No Comments
Herdsman, 7′ 9″, uses long arms to pull plastic from creatures’ stomachs
Here’s a nice example of acting locally that has a global effect.
Hopefully people will figure out a that Dolphins (and other sea life) eat plastic and our garbage, so it is best to keep it out of the oceans.
December 14th, 2006 | Posted in Sea | No Comments
The Ten Best Things about Global Warming:
10. Why pay for tattoos when melanoma’s free?
9. No more pesky weeds. In fact, no more pesky plants.
8. Nile Encephalitis: not just for Egyptians anymore.
7. Furnaces convert easily into tornado shelters.
6. Helsinki: the new Riviera.
5. Middle East oil producers feel right at home— everywhere.
4. Golfers only need a putter [...]
December 10th, 2006 | Posted in Global Warming | No Comments
Lake Victoria, the size of Ireland, in Africa is drying up. By this article it seems that over consumption and global warming are the culprits. Which then makes you ask who are the culprits of consumption and global warming?
The outflow through two hydroelectric dams at Jinja is part of the problem — a tiny part, [...]
December 10th, 2006 | Posted in Global Warming | No Comments