Going Green
Under the guidance of the Rainforest Alliance and other environmental groups, 30 percent of the publication paper Scholastic buys will be Forest Stewardship Council-certified within five years. A quarter of the paper it uses also will be recycled, with 75 percent being post-consumer waste.
The company bought 95,000 tons of paper in fiscal year 2007. Only 4 percent of that was FSC-certified, and 11 percent contained post-consumer waste fiber.
Scholastic's new website geared toward children is called Scholastic ACT GREEN! It includes interactive features to allow children to create e-cards, "green" plans and earn "green" points.
"Our five-year goals for FSC-certified and recycled paper purchases are ambitious but achievable and important," said Maureen O'Connell, Scholastic's chief financial officer and chief administrative officer.
O'Connell added that Scholastic set records with the printing of the seventh Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, on environmentally sound paper. The company also practices green building principles in the construction and maintenance in its headquarters and other buildings.
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Famous quotes containing the word green:
“Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;
We have drunken of things Lethean; and fed on the fullness of death.
Laurel is green for a season, and love is sweet for a day;
But love grows bitter with treason, and laurel outlives not May.
Sleep, shall we sleep after all? for the world is not sweet in the
end;
For the old faiths loosen and fall, the new years ruin and rend.”
—A.C. (Algernon Charles)
“Among the Indians he had fought;
And with him many tales he brought
Of pleasure and of fear;
Such tales as told to any Maid
By such a Youth, in the green shade,
Were perilous to hear.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)