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Target Brand Sports Green-e & FSC Mixed Source Logos

Target Stores Archer Farms brand is using the Green-e certified label and new paperboard packaging certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, Sustainable Is Good reports. The Green-e logo and the FSC Mixed Source logo appear on Archer Farms Organic Petite Cookies. Other products from the organic line do not seem to be part of the program. FSC/Green-e...

ForestEthics Focuses On Sears/Lands’ End Catalog Practices

ForestEthics turned its attention to the catalog practices of Sears/Lands’ End with in-person visits late last month announcing the launch of a new campaign against the catalog company. Sears/Lands’ End mails out more than 425 million catalogs a year that contain almost no recycled content, and use paper sourced from Canada’s Boreal Forest, according to ForestEthics. The environmental group...

Curtis Packaging Goes ‘100% Carbon Neutral’

Connecticut-based Curtis Packaging claims that they are the first 100 percent carbon neutral printing and packaging company in North America. During the last five years Curtis says it has been identifying, assessing, and reducing internal aspects that contribute to their carbon footprint. As a result, it says it has become the first printing and packaging...

Vail Releases Green Details Of ‘Ever Vail’ Development

More details have come out about Vail Resorts' $1 billion Ever Vail development, the largest LEED-certified, multi-use resort development project in the nation. Vail says it's several steps closer to making the 9.5-acre project at the base of Vail Mountain a reality. This past June, it was accepted into the pilot program for LEED's new Neighborhood Development certification...

Wine Industry’s Green Movement Heads To Retail & Distribution

JJ Buckley says it has become the first wine retail and distribution company to offset all of the carbon emissions from their day-to-day operations. Activities like product shipping receiving, travel, office electricity, and all employee commuting will be offset through a partnership with Carbonfund.org. They've also implemented energy reducing efforts such as office recycling and efficient lighting. A number of

Victoria’s Secret Caves, Catalog Goes Green

With holiday shopping in full swing, some major brands have made announcements that they’re embracing the environmental cause and that paper used in catalogs will come from environmentally friendly, sustainably harvested sources. In late November, Williams-Sonoma announced that it will begin sourcing more than 90 percent of the paper used in the company’s seven catalogs ... Read more »

Williams-Sonoma Catalogs to Receive FSC Certification

Williams-Sonoma has begun sourcing more than 90% of the paper used in the company’s seven catalogs (Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Bed and Bath, Pottery Barn Kids, PBteen, west elm and Williams-Sonoma Home) from sources certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification will ensure that catalog paper comes from well-managed forests ... Read more »

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