People often ask: "what makes you green?"
At Green Solutions Printing, we have chosen to take the question one step further. What makes us sustainable?
Our mission for being a sustainable printer includes the triple bottom line in all of our decisions. People, planet and profits go hand in hand when talking about a sustainable business, printer or otherwise.
Sustainable printing is something that is relatively new and only fully embraced by a small group of print shops around the globe. It is not sufficient anymore to simply be "green". All businesses must take drastic steps to reduce their carbon footprint, support renewable energy and give their employees the resources to grow and thrive. The ideas and tchnology are out there, we just have to be strong enough to support them. This also means moving away from a society that places profit above all else to a world that allows for everyone to flourish to the best of their capacity. We must be stewards to this earth and all that she supports.
These are just a few of the ways that Green Solutions Printing has chosen to be a sustainable printer:
Ancient Forest Friendly
Green Solutions Printing is committed to offering high post-consumer environmentally preferable papers. The Ancient Forest Friendly logo represents the highest and most comprehensive standards for environmental responsibility in the paper industry. All certified papers must contain a high percentage of post-consumer waste and contain no virgin content from ancient, old-growth or endangered forests. Any virgin fiber must be both FSC certified and assessed not to have originated from endangered forests.
Certified Green Company by Green America
Our mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
Green America’s Work Combines Four Powerful Strategies:
• Empowering individuals to make purchasing and investing choices that promote social justice and environmental sustainability;
• Demanding an end to corporate irresponsibility through collective economic action;
• Promoting green and fair trade business principles while building the market for businesses adhering to these principles;
• Building sustainable communities in the U.S. and abroad.
Carbon Neutral
Carbonfund.org is leading the fight against global warming, making it easy and affordable forany individual, business or organization to reduce & offset their climate impact and hasten the transition to a clean energy future. Carbonfund.org achieves its goals through:
• Climate change education
• Carbon offsets and reductions
• Public outreach
100% Wind Powered
EWEB Greenpower enables customers to participate in a variety of the utility's renewable energy projects and provides an opportunity to contribute to sustainable resource investments in the future.
For many years, EWEB has heard from its customer-owners in surveys and focus groups that following conservation, clean and renewable power is their resource of choice. Since the late 1990s, EWEB has been at the forefront of developing renewable energy resources to meet increased demand not offset by conservation efforts.
Renewable energy refers to electricity supplied by energy sources that are naturally and continually replenished including wind, solar power, hydropower, geothermal and various forms of biomass. Participate in EWEB's renewable energy programs:
Certified B Corporation
B Corporations are a new type of corporation that are purpose driven and create benefit for all stakeholders, not just shareholders. B Corporations are unlike traditional responsible businesses because they meet comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards and institutionalize multiple stakeholder interests.
B corp and B Lab bring the totality of the word sustainable into focus. We cannot have a vibrant functioning society without social equality, environmental stewardship and maximum utilization of resources. We are all stakeholders in this mission and it is B Corp members who represent the transition point from the dark days of capitalism to the bright future of humanity. We are proud to be in association with the whole B corp family and look forward to the day when we no longer need a label for what at B Corp is.....