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:
“May they turn sour. May many mean things
happen upon them, no shepherds, no dogs,
a blight of the skin, a mange of the wool,
and they will die eating foreign money,
choking on its green alphabet.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Hermann and Humbert are alike only in the sense that two dragons painted by the same artist at different periods of his life resemble each other. Both are neurotic scoundrels, yet there is a green lane in Paradise where Humbert is permitted to wander at dusk once a year; but Hell shall never parole Hermann.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)