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...same way as the similarly trimmed Atlanta Journal-Constitution's. For generations, the men who print the J-Cwould fold a sheet of it into a hat that kept ink out of their hair. Now, I was told on a recent tour of the J-C's plant, the paper is just barely not wide enough to make...
...giving customers an opportunity to spend $2--an almost laughable amount of money--so we can plant a "portion" of a tree, and that tree will consume the carbon dioxide equivalent to the energy production required for the notebook computer over its lifetime. For a desktop computer it'll be $6. If you're going to spend $800 or $1,000 on a computer, why not spend another $2 or $6 to be carbon neutral...
Reversible collects the used billboards from Lyons producer La Cotonnière, cleans them, and delivers the scraps to Texyloop, a plant that processes the PVC for reuse. The bags' $66-119 cost helps finance the group recycling effort. And what happens when your bag wears out? Each one comes with a self-addressed PVC envelope so that it can be returned - to be reprocessed. www.reversible.fr
...cold hillside at the edge of western Wales' Cambrian Mountains, more than a thousand saplings, all planted in the last couple of months, are taking root. The trees are local - beech, ash, oak, alder and willow, among others - but the money behind them isn't. Green-minded airline passengers from as far away as the U.S. and New Zealand are stumping up $20 per plant, hoping the trees will absorb from the atmosphere an amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent to their share spewed out during a flight. To Ru Hartwell, project director of Treeflights.com, which offers the service...
...hills of Llanybydder, Hartwell says he makes it clear to his customers that offsetting is only a small part of the fight, and that such frankness costs Treeflights.com "a lot of custom." But he says that's O.K. - he's still got plenty of trees to plant...