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A New Way For Scrapbookers to Save Time, Money and Trees

Mike Gagnon — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:00:07 +0000

Rochester, New York based web business, ScrapSMART.com, hopes that it’s easy alternatives to mass produced paper products will catch on with eco-savvy scrap booking and party enthusiasts.

In a recent national press release ScrapSMART.com encouraged those gearing up for holiday parties to consider their affordable alternative to buying mass produced party favors. The company claims to offer all the party materials you need in a convenient downloadable file format or CD that customers can print from as they need.

“Once upon a time you had to run all over town searching for everything you needed to throw a Christmas Party,” says Reenie Feingold, founder of ScrapSMART. “Our Jolly Christmas Party CD …provides you with a complete party package for only $19.99…”

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New Farming Options Make Caviar Eco-Friendly and Affordable

Mike Gagnon — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:00:31 +0000

Thanks to new and developing harvesting approaches U.S. fish farmers and distributors are making caviar not only sustainable, but affordable.

Although you may or may not be a part of the cultural elite who consider themselves caviar connoisseurs, if you have interest in the environment and economy you may be able to appreciate the developments occurring in in the world Caviar market thanks to a number of U.S. based fisheries.

For hundreds of years caviar was harvested for the wealthy and affluent of the world in much the same way. Large fishing boats would hall in nets full of sturgeon during spawning season. For most vessels the operation was for deck hands to sort the fish, males would be deposited into a holding tank for market. Females would be cut open for their eggs to be harvested for caviar and the rest would be discarded or kept in another holding tank for the fish markets. It was this approach, yielding only one harvest per female fish, which helped contribute to caviar becoming such a high priced luxury for the affluent.

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Superman Joins the Fight to Save Trees

Mike Gagnon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:18:37 +0000

Thanks to trailblazing enviro-publisher Asgard Press, Superman, and the other heroes from the DC Universe, will be joining the fight to save the environment.

According to the publisher’s recent press release, the eco-friendly efforts made on these heroes behalf is made possible by a new business partnership between Asgard Press and Warner Brothers subsidiary DC Comics.

Asgard Press is a calendar and stationary publisher founded in 1999 with an interesting premise, to influence one of the largest tree consuming industries from within by proving that consumers would care about and support a business based on providing environmentally friendly paper products.

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First Green Certified Laptop Battery Boosted by HP

Mike Gagnon — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:51:05 +0000

HP teams with U.S. based Boston-Power to create the first line of eco-friendly laptops.

In the race to come up with newer eco-friendly laptop solutions HP has not only led the way, but helped achieve a few firsts in the process, according to a recent Boston-Power press release.

Not only will HP be launching what it calls its new “Enviro” series of notebooks, but it will also be teaming with Boston-Power to be the first manufacturer to bring a product of this type to market.

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