Green Ink and Paper!

by NDK Creative Artist

In the “I’m going Green” zone some new items have turned up that will be of ihnterest to our readers in the US. Briefly: Xerox have created a new paper which should be released in a few years. The paper has a photosensitive ink that fades within 24 hours leaving the paper reusable. Read more about this here.

This could really do a lot for recycling of fliers, posters, newsprint, concert tickets, short-term advertising messages, and others I can’t even think of because I haven’t had enough coffee yet.

Solar Energy is becoming more accessible to customers and cheaper to get solar power installed. Read more about this here. I will admit solar energy has more appeal to me than wind turbines for maintenance and visual and noise pollution reasons. Solar panels seem so much more unobtrusive and sunlight is a bit more dependable than wind.

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