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Video: Green Flash Drive Folders

John Simonetta — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:03:42 +0000

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of Proforma Simonetta Freelance, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

Independent Printing was displaying eco-friendly flash drive folders at the Proforma convention in Dallas last week.

As we have written before about Independent Printing, they are a great resource for Forest Stewardship Council certified and recycled content print projects. All their inks are water-based and they are using wind power to run their plant.

The idea with the flash drive folder is it gives you a large surface area to print information that will be covered in much, much more detail on the flash drive.

A good example might be a piece for an eco-tourism resort. The printed folder has pictures and information, the flash drive holds film clips, music, a full presentation, a few .pdf brochures. Same idea for an energy saving invention that needs to have a lot of supporting data, or maybe information on an event or green trade show. You get the idea.

Here is the video.

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Holiday Stuff #3 - PET - Recycled Water Bottles for Christmas

John Simonetta — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:09:33 +0000

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s posts are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

A number of clients and readers have asked us about ideas for eco-friendly customer gifts and I wanted to write a couple of posts talking about items that have done well in the past for clients or that are new for this year and doing well so far.

I also wanted to break these articles into categories so this blog will cover PET (yes items made from recycled water bottles for the holidays). PET may be a boring material but it is being used in some neat products.

1) Eco 100% Recycled Owl Laptop Sleeve - Made from 100% post-consumer recycled material (product label affirms this claim), holding a standard 15″ laptop and with a very clean line design, these bags have been very popular as both employee and customer gifts. At about $15 including a one color imprint of your logo or message, these bags are very popular with hip eco companies and road warriors. The gift is also practical, for one thing it makes accessing your laptop at the airport a heck of a lot easier, and of course it does provide basic protection from bumps, nicks and