Mommy Goes Green

Companies are always looking to set themselves apart and define themselves uniquely.  If your company wants to convey their eco-friendly intentions, walk the walk with eco-friendly promotional products. 

Botanical Paperworks provides promotional paper products all printed on 100% tree-free, plantable paper.  No trees AND they grow into wildflowers once planted!  Their promo products include coasters, postcards, business cards and coasters.

Ecobranders has thousands of traditional promotional products like water bottles, lanyards, t-shirts and pens but all with an eco-friendly twist.  The key holder is powered by solar, the pens are recyclable, and the golf balls are made from renewable materials.

Every company has a reusable tote bag so change things up and give your clients a custom reusable wine tote (with a bottle of your favorite wine, of course!).  Factory Direct Promos will print them for you for as low as 59 cents!

A couple months ago, I was given a copy of GreenPrint, FREE software that eliminates unwanted pages saving paper, ink, money, and millions of trees.  It does this by analyzing each page of every document sent to the printer and looking for typical waste characteristics (like that last page with just a URL, banner ad, logo, or legal jargon). I’ve been using it at home and love it! It was so easy to install and works every time you go to print ( you can disable it if necessary ).

GreenPrint also incorporates an easy to use PDF writer, a print preview called GreenView, and a reporting feature which keeps track of the number of pages and the amount of money you have saved – we could all use a little saved money!

It’s FREE for Windows 2000/XP/Vista users.  MAC users can use the program for free for 30 days ( $29 to purchase ).

Encourage your employer to implement GreenPrint Enterprise edition.  With 25 employees, GreenPrint estimates one office would save over $2200 per year and over 35,000 pieces of paper – with one little piece of software!