By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
If you haven’t seen it, please take a look at our story about America Recycles Day. Find out just how much energy we can save by recycling, a no-brainer if ever there was one.
Last year, a Harris poll found that 91 percent of Americans reported that they recycled. But that figure seemed really high, given the low recycling rates in some cities, like Houston, Dallas, Detroit and Indianapolis. Those were some of the slackers revealed in a study of municipal recycling in 2008 that showed major US cities varied wildly in the amount of recyclables they collected, from San Francisco’s near 70 percent to Houston’s under 3 percent.
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Humana and Arbor Day, taming health care’s paper monsters
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
It’s taking some time, but the health care industry is slowly figuring out how to tamp down the paperwork that’s choking doctor’s offices and irritating patients across the nation. Increasingly physicians are emailing in prescriptions and we in the public are getting our rejections for medical treatment via online records. (Hey, at least we don’t have to wait for the bad news!)
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Tags: · Arbor Day Foundation, forests, healthcare, Humana, Paper
Pretenders wrap "Concrete" in seeds
By John DeFore
Pretenders bandleader Chrissie Hynde has been visible for years as a vegetarian and PETA supporter, but her latest album nods to the well-being of the plant world as well.
The first copies of the band’s new album Break up the Concrete come wrapped in a half-sleeve made of handmade paper with tiny seeds molded into it. Listeners can soak the paper in water and plant it in hopes of growing some flowers.
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Tags: · Chrissie Hynde, Paper, The Pretenders
Paperless Receipts: Cutting Business Expenses, Not Trees
September 10th, 2008 · No Comments
By Catherine Colbert
We all know the drill: “Paper or plastic?” But when it comes to receipts there hasn’t been a choice — until 
now. allEtronic, a Fullerton, Calif., company knows that paper receipts are a nuisance and wants to rid the retail experience of those paper tag-a-longs that billow out of your purse, bulge inside your wallet, and languish in Rubbermaid containers in your closet.
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Tags: · allEtronic, Carbon Emissions, Cyndigo Corporation, Paper, Trees
MeetingPod Pre-empts Paper, Makes Meetings More Eco-Friendly
By Barbar
a Kessler
Worried about the stacks of duplicated reports and reprinted Power Points that get passed around at meetings? Maybe you are, maybe you aren’t. But as companies assess the carbon impact of their activities, the paper-choked meeting is becoming an issue, and a UK company is in the wings with the solution: an electronic device called MeetingPod.
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Tags: · Carbon Imprint, Meetings, Paper
Fidelity Reduces Paper Use; Contracts Signed In Cyberspace
By John DeFore
More and more corporate emails these days end with text blurbs urging the recipient not to print messages out unless absolutely necessary. Hard copies of documents are a must in some instances, of course, but they’re becoming less and less necessary thanks to some efforts to finally make good on the computer [...]
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