Sustainability, energy security and climate change are challenging issues that are compelling every business,  every government and every individual to rethink the ways in which  they employ energy, source materials, manage  waste and to redefine  what it means to be “greener.” As  printing  sales  continue their record breaking declines, it's

The new wave  of green sweeping over business in the US is the crescendo of a  movement that has been under way for over a decade, and there every  reason to believe this wave of change has yet to crest. Despite the  global recession there is  overwhelming  evidence that graphic

Increasingly  it seems that just about every organization or product is claiming to be  “green.” Even if your company is not planning to address becoming greener this year, your customers, your competitors and your government probably are, but supply chain professionals and regulators are also growing increasingly skeptical of unsubstantiated

Print has  profoundly changed the world since the days of Johannes Guttenberg, but  now due to the prodigious volumes of energy and materials consumed and  mountains of waste produced the printing industry is challenged to  profoundly change itself. Current patterns of print and digital media  production and consumption are unsustainable

Have you ever  considered what the carbon footprint of a magazine or an eReader is?  What about the carbon footprint of your publication? Not everyone cares  about carbon footprints or defers to the authority of science on climate  change, but when Coke, Pepsi and Apple begin to carbon footprint their

Paper or  digital? The simple answer is—neither. The most common answer is that print kills  trees and computers don't, so digital media must be greener. The typical  indignant response is that print is greener because trees are a  renewable resource and computers are toxic energy vampires that don't  grow

With the  stock markets down by almost a third since December of 2008, and credit  markets tighter than a new boot, lenders are raising the bar for  borrowers and turning away all but the best customers. In turn, the  credit squeeze will force businesses and consumers to take a hatchet