Encouraging Environmentally Friendly Shopping using Prompts, Commitment and Norms

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Customers at a Zehr's supermarket in Kitchener, Ontario were encouraged to purchase environmentally friendly products. 168 products were identified that either had least-waste pac…

Waste Wise Program

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Waste Wise is a free, voluntary program set up by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which attempts to eliminate costly municipal solid waste. Waste Wise targ…

Washington State Promotes the Purchase of Recycled Content Products With Prompts in the "Get in the Loop, Buy Recycled" Program

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King County commission for Marketing Recyclable Materials & Atwood, A. M. (1994). Consumer research survey: Knowledge, attitudes, and purchase of recycled-content products. King County Commission for Marketing Recyclable Materials.
Washington State used market research to identify the primary barriers to buying recycled products. Although concerns about price and quality were not addressed during this campai…

Promoting Environmentally Friendly Purchases

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Unknown Nov 28, 2005 9:41 am
I have a particular interest in how we effectively promote the purchase of environmentally friendly products. There are two resources at the FSB site on this issue. The first is a…

Green Criteria for Print Material

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Tim Laprade Kingston Feb 3, 2006 10:21 am
I am in the process of working on an RFP for business cards and letterheads and would like to inject some "green" criteria into our purchase. I am doing a bit of research to find …

Zero Waste in the Production of Documents

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Joephine Telfer Adelaide Apr 21, 2006 8:45 am
Hi all, Our company is looking to move towards zero waste in the production of documents. We are having trouble sourcing cost efficient yet professional ways of binding our d…

How to Introduce Recycled Content Paper?

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Amanda Kovattana San Carlos Jul 24, 2006 12:33 pm
I would like to help my organization transition to recycled content paper, preferably 100% using soy based ink. We produce a yearly conference with direct mail flyers, conference …

Roadblocks to Sustainable Behaviour

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Barbara Treves Los Angeles Jul 27, 2006 14:52 pm
I'm afraid I have just hit one - after several months of research, including time dedicated to educating my co-workers on the benefits of switching from 24 lb. chlorine bleached, …

Printing on Paper of 100% Recycled Content

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Marty Adolf Portland Jan 22, 2007 19:31 pm
I'm attempting to persuade my co-workers to switch to using 100% recycled content paper but have hit a snag in our IT department. We have two high-speed printers for large print j…

EcoFriendly Fashion

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David Wilcoxen Champaign Aug 7, 2007 10:10 am
I'm interested in organizing an ecofriendly fashion show in our community that features stylish, earth/people friendly clothing. Not your hippie, tree hugging variety (no offense)…

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