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The perfect canvas to deliver any message while maintaing your standards of quality, sophistication, and consciousness, Greene Street Greetings are made on one hundred percent post-consumer waste recycled paper that is processed chlorine-free and printed using soy and vegetable based inks. Even their website is hosted on a solar and wind powered server. For customers located in Manhattan, they offer carbon-free bicycle messenger delivery. [Greene Street Greetings]

The largest premium paper manufacturer in North America, Mohawk Fine Papers Inc. is known in the industry for its high environmental standards and sustainable practices. The mill offers certified sustainable paper choices. In addition, Mohawk is the first major manufacturing company to derive a significant amount of its electricity from renewable windpower. They even offer an environmental savings calculator to determine the environmental benefits of your paper projects. [Mohawk Fine Papers]

Through the use of recycled and chlorine-free paper, vegetable-based inks, and responsible business practices, GreenDot has become an industry leader in the printing services market and is proof that a company need not sacrifice its principles in the pursuit of profit. GreenDot exists because there are people out there who care about the Earth. People who believe that you can make a difference through small changes in how you live your life and how you run your business. [Greendot]

One of the greenest commercial printers out there, Sandy Alexander boasts an impressive list of environmental certifications and achievement. From being 100% wind powered, to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, Forest Stewardship Council and Green-e certifications, their total commitment to the environment and social responsibility led the EPA to refer them as "the country's largest consumer of green power in the printing and publishing industry." [Sandy Alexander]

This online company purchases old and unwanted books. All you have to do is enter in the ISBN on the books to get a price for them, pack them in a box with the prepaid shipping label from ebookdrop.com and send them on their way. Once the company recieves your books, you get paid. This is a great way to recycle those old books collecting dust on your shelves. [eBookDrop.com]

The overarching goal of Seed magazine is the nurturing of a science-savvy global citizenry by increasing public interest in and understanding of science. The magazine aims to provide their readers with the most relevant, insightful and entertaining original science content. Their website includes the usual magazine fare, but they also embrace the potential of the web to cross media boundaries by delivering podcasts, slideshows and a growing pool of video content. [Seed Magazine]

A magazine for hip, savvy, environmentally conscious consumers, Plenty examines the intersection where concern for the environment meets quality of life. The magazine offers graphically inviting news of the latest cutting-edge products, along with ideas for better living-with substance, with style and with a positive attitude towards the planet's future. Plenty asserts that if we, as individuals and as a society, make the right choices, we can still live in a world of Plenty. [Plenty Magazine]

Showing how richly designed our world can be, Metropolis examines contemporary life through design—architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation. Subjects range from the sprawling urban environment to intimate living spaces to small objects of everyday use. Metropolis looks to the economic, environmental, social, cultural, political, and technological contexts to explore why design happens in a certain way. [Metropolis]