New Items in Used Boxes – Columbia Sportswear

, October 29th, 2009

Catalog and online buyers collect lots and lots of boxes and packaging. Just take a look at the “box closet” at our house; we seem to collect Amazon boxes as fast as we collect coat hangers! So what do you do with them? Flatten them and put them in the recycling bin most likely. Columbia … Keep reading here » New Items in Used Boxes – Columbia Sportswear

Paper – The NEW Material

, October 13th, 2009
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The Pacific Northwest is one of the richest sources of fiber – including wood fiber – in North America. As a result, I’m always looking for new and creative ways that paper and pulp are being used.

Unfolded-Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry, by Petra Schmidt and Nicola Stattmann (Birkhäuser 2009), is an amazing book showing how far we can go with cellulose. … Keep reading here » Paper – The NEW Material

What WERE they thinking?

, October 7th, 2009
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The publishers of the 119-year old weekly newspaper, The Budget, almost caused a riot – or at least a strike – when they proposed to move the paper from print to online in 2006.

Earlier this year the publisher reconsidered the plan to go online.

What WERE they thinking? … Keep reading here » What WERE they thinking?

Paper – now you see it, now you don’t

, October 6th, 2009
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Do you get those blue envelopes full of coupons in the mail once a month or so? Valpak, the company distributing local coupons by mail, is now delivering them by iPhone.

A free app from the Apple App Store gives you “instant point of purchase redemption” of coupons. How does it work? … Keep reading here » Paper – now you see it, now you don’t

A New Look at Pixels vs Paper

, October 4th, 2009
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We continue to fight the battle of “Pixels vs Paper” and a closer look at energy sources gives us a new look a detailed breakdown of computer usage and power requirements.

The Energy Information Administration, a source of government statistics regarding energy sources and usage, published June 2009 statistics (the most recent) on September 11. … Keep reading here » A New Look at Pixels vs Paper

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