By Emily Corey
As children, we learn to mix yellow and blue to make green. As the colors merge before our eyes, we are astonished at the transformation. And so it is with the green movement today. While we maybe easily overwhelmed by the enormity of the global problems facing us, in the simple mixing of [...]

By Margo Myles
When your town is a largely built-out community, the last vestiges of open land take on new meaning. The attempt to determine their future is fraught with tugs on either end of the rope—to build or not, at existing zoning or not, for greater good or not, so as to leave a legacy [...]

By Jen Pennington
Jennie, remember to tell ‘em these vegetables are organic and they can’t buy ‘em in the stores.” My father, Ralph Siegel was well ahead of his time. As kid in the 70s, I didn’t really understand the consequence of what he was saying. We just knew Dad didn’t use pesticides and that [...]

By Steve Jaasund
In July, 1968 I was driving north over the Raritan River on the Garden State Parkway when I decided that my work toward a degree in Chemical Engineering could be best utilized in doing something to clean up our environment. At the time, the Raritan River was a literal sewer and the air [...]

by James McGrath
It seems like I have been riding some form of public transport all my life. Many of my earliest memories are of taking the shaky old lift (that’s an elevator for you Americans) at Wapping Underground Station, down to a very old, dark and damp platform to pick up the East London Line [...]

By Christopher Arlen
What’s preventing everyone from buying only environmentally-friendly products, recycling, and driving hybrids? What stops us from using the green choices already available? Simple answer: human nature.
We are inundated with information and make more decisions in one day than our parents made in a month. We know we should do things differently. However, quantitatively [...]

Interview by Emily Corey
Paper and print sustainability issues have been part of the recycling dialogue since the tree-hugging sixties and the idea of reusing what we write our memories on and pack our groceries in, jump-started much of the environmental movement that we know today.
Eco-savvy printers like David Hell of Graphics Plus have been part [...]

“Gauging green is a lot like a speedometer in a car,” says Lynn Krinsky, owner of Stella Color, a Seattle-based large format printer. “Even if you’re only going fifteen miles an hour, you’re still moving forward.” And while Krinsky knows the goal of a 100% green printing process is still in the future, [...]