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Association for the
Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education |
http://www.aashe.org
AASHE is a professional,
membership-based association of colleges and
universities working to advance sustainability in higher
education in the
U.S. and Canada. The association also provides a
professional home for
campus sustainability coordinators, directors, and other
practitioners.
Its mission is to promote sustainability in all sectors
of higher education
- from governance and operations to curriculum and
outreach - through
education, communication, research and professional
development. AASHE
Partners include Businesses, NGO's, and government
agencies. |
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Cutting Paper |
http://eetd.lbl.gov/Paper/html/concept.htm
The Cutting Paper web site is developed to provide
information to help the
motivated office worker reduce paper use. The site
includes facts on copy
paper, steps to take when reducing paper, and tips on
how to measure and
count savings from paper reduction. The "Cutting Paper"
Site was funded by
the U.S. Department of Energy, Waste Minimization
Program. |
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National Office Paper
Recycling Project's Office Paper Recycling Guide |
http://es.epa.gov/techinfo/facts/recypapr.html
An extensive guide outlining the how, what, when, where,
and why's of
collecting recyclable office waste paper, as well as the
importance of
buying recycled products. Highly recommended to any
organization that wants
to start a recycling program or improve on an existing
one. The National
Office Paper Recycling Project is a program of the
United States Conference
of Mayors. |
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Buy Recycled Business
Alliance (BRBA) |
http://brba.nrc-recycle.org
Established by the National Recycling Coalition in 1992,
the Buy Recycled
Business Alliance (BRBA) is a group of organizations
committed to increasing
the procurement of recycled content products through
education and
leadership by example. The BRBA website contains a good
amount of
informative publications about buying recycled products. |
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Recycled Paper Coalition
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http://www.papercoalition.org
The primary principle endorsed by the Coalition is the
need to conserve
natural resources and reduce waste by purchasing
"environmentally-preferred"
paper products and by maximizing the efficient use of
paper. The objective
is to bring purchasing strength to the recycled paper
market by stimulating
demand for recycled paper products, especially those
made from materials
("postconsumer content") that would otherwise be
discarded. |
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Conservatree |
http://www.conservatree.com
Conservatree is a nonprofit catalyst and advocate for
ecologically
sustainable paper markets, combining environmental
commitment with paper
industry and technical savvy to provide practical tools
and realistic
strategies for successful conversion to environmentally
sound papers. The
Conserveatree website contains information on
environmentally sound papers
on the market. |
The Recycled Products
Purchasing Cooperative (RPPC)
|
http://www.recycledproducts.org
The RPPC is a non-profit program dedicated to natural
resource conservation.
The goal of Co-op is to increase the use of recycled
copy paper on a
national basis. The RPPC offers 30% and 100% post
consumer recycled copy
paper at competitive prices. WasteCap is the New England
affiliate of the
RPPC. |
ReThink Paper
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http://www.rethinkpaper.org
ReThink Paper, a project of the Earth Island Institute,
works to educate the
government, industry, and the general public about
ecological paper issues.
ReThink Paper's education and advocacy efforts are based
on extensive
research. Staff members work with government
researchers, university
professors, professional papermakers, economists,
chemists, forestry
experts, and farmers to obtain research data pertaining
to the non-wood,
recycled and virgin wood-based paper industries. ReThink
Paper produces
web-based fact sheets, technical monographs, and other
reports on ecological
papermaking. The site also includes a comprehensive
consumer guide to
ecological paper options. |
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