To print or not to print, that is the question.

Ideally, you should print only relevant material, when needed, in the quantity required for the audience that will use it.

Why? You will achieve your business goals more effectively, you will reduce your costs, and you will reduce your carbon/water footprint. No longer is energy wasted to produce, store and distribute unnecessary printed material.

Suddenly print-on-demand is a green strategy! Produce what you need, when you need it. Does that sound familiar? Actually sounds like the advice my mother used to give us when we were kids: “Take only what you can eat.”

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When was the last time you wrote a check? Can you even remember?

I used to buy boxes of 250 checks at a time several times a year for my personal account. Now I use one packet of 25 checks in a year.

Check usage  has fallen in the UK by almost two-thirds in the last 20 years. (Read the article)

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At this week’s Action for a Sustainable America, held in Seattle, I had the opportunity to meet some great folks. The event was one of a series of three where corporate leaders and green innovators examined sustainability as a corporate strategy.

David Quigg, Grays Harbor Paper, introduced the company his father helped rescue with a team of local investors when the Grays Harbor paper mill closed 15 years ago putting hundreds of people out of work in rural Washington.

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