101 Things Designers Can Do to Save The Earth


71. Work locally
June 3, 2007, 6:38 pm
Filed under: Studio Practices

When possible, work with local printers, paper mills, binderies, CD duplicators and other support vendors. The less your projects have to travel by truck, train, and plane, the smaller their environmental footprint.

This suggestion made by attendees at SVC’s 101 Things Designers Can Do to Save the Earth workshop on May 30, 2007.

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[...] I felt rather conflicted about posting the link, as the list recycles some options itself (reading Cradle to Cradle is mentioned at least twice) and has some obvious commercial intent (in the form of promotional spots in the list), but I decided it’d be a good chance to highlight some practices that make a direct and positive difference beyond the typical reduce, reuse, recycle habits, such as: #71: Work locally [...]

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