Recycled & Environmentally Friendly Business Cards, etc.

Reducing is the number one way to conserve our natural resources...and our way of life.  One easy way to reduce your use of trees and the great amounts of water that papermaking uses... is to change the kind of paper you buy and use.  Use higher percentage RECYCLED paper! 

Because of cost issues with recycled paper and seeing the need to help improve usage of recycled content paper, the Recycled Products Cooperative was created in 1999 with two goals in mind:

(1) To leverage purchasing power of members to reduce pricing, and
(2) To educate buyers on the importance of using recycled paper and other products.

The Co-op is committed to bringing about transformations within the marketplace which conserve trees and other natural resources.

The Cooperative was originally one of numerous creative and progressive programs under the umbrella of the Solana Center for Environmental Innovation. The Solana Center is a non-profit organization based in Encinitas, California. For 25 years the Solana Center has been a leader in addressing and finding creative solutions to many of the environmental challenges both locally and globally. To find out more about the Solana Center and its other programs, visit www.solanacenter.org. Last year the RPC spun off on its own and is now a for profit corporation. Although we have changed our tax status our guiding principals are still based on saving environmental resources.

Another informative resource is...

Environmental Paper Network --  a resource for purchasers, environmental organizations, industry, and individuals. The Environmental Paper Network is a diverse group of environmental organizations joined together to support socially and environmentally sustainable transformations within the pulp and paper industry.  The Network developed the Common Vision as a framework to guide necessary shifts in production and consumption.

The Green Press Initiative is to help those in the book and newspaper industries better understand their impacts on endangered forests, indigenous communities, and the Earth's climate. GPI also works with those in the industry to implement solutions, and to provide the tools and resources necessary to support industry transformation.