The ‘Green’ TEAM
Aside from manufacturing improvements, Scholastic has striven to cut energy costs in other ways, including an under-floor heating and cooling system, and efficient lighting at the company’s headquarters.
Scholastic is the latest in an increasingly long line of publishers making a commitment to “green” principles. The “early adopters,” according to the GPI, include Lantern Books (which prints nearly all titles on 100-percent post-consumer recycled paper and was the first publisher to publicly develop a policy); Baker Publishing Group (which in 2003 began the process of implementing a 30-percent post-consumer recycled fiber policy that was fully in place by 2006); and Harvard University Press (which currently has 30 percent of its titles printed with 30-percent to 50-percent post-consumer grade).
- Companies:
- Baker Publishing
- Bowater Incorporated
- Canadian Standards Association
- Cascades Fine Papers Group
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Forest Stewardship Council
- Green Press Initiative
- Harvard University Press
- Lantern Books
- Lightning Source Inc.
- People Magazine
- Random House Inc.
- Scholastic Inc.
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc.
- The Book Industry Study Group
- The Wall Street Journal
- Wal-Mart