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Gemline Launches Green Living Site

19 Dec

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

Gemline – one of our favorite manufacturers – has launched what they are calling their GREEN LIVING WEBSITE at www.gemline.com/gemline.web/living-green.

This site gives a great overview of the green and eco-friendly products in Gemline’s portfolio and I applaud Gemline for getting all their green items together in an easy to view site.

The online catalog is divided into five categories – Organic, Recycled, Cotton, PVC Free and More Options for items like Bamboo and Solar.

I hope more manufacturers produce focused sites for their green items and I encourage them to follow Gemline’s example. Bravo Gemline.

For more information on any items shown on the Gemline Green Living site please visit the site or email us at info@proformagreen.com.

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How To Grow A Brand – Plant a Tree! Leed's Teams AmericanForests.org

24 Aug

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

Leed’s is teaming up with AmericanForests.org. “Leed’s makes a donation to American Forest’s Global ReLeaf program for every EcoSmart imprint order we produce”.

The thing I like about this new deal is that you don’t have to do anything extra. If the client purchases Leed’s EcoSmart promotional items the donation is automatically made.

Simple. But…. Continue reading →

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Recycle Your Water Bottles On Your Laptop

19 Aug

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

From leather to leader is how Leed’s explains it on their website. How about from bottles to briefcases? That might be a better description for Leeds line of 100% recycled promotional items made from water bottles and other recycled everyday items.

Leed’s Owl line of bags and other items made from recycled water bottles has added a new product to their list of made from 100% post-consumer recycled material (product label affirms this claim). Continue reading →

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3M Goes Green

6 Aug

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

Like your 3M Post-it notes but are concerned about their impact on the environment?

Well so is 3M and starting in 2007 they started to provided eco-friendly versions of all their basic products called Post-it® Recycled Notes.

Is this green washing or real concern?

I suspect neither and both. Really I think it has to do with their bottom line and the growing chorus of folks that want green alternatives in the office. So the more we support items like a green Post-it the more will be sold and the more the idea will work itself into the fabric of 3M. Continue reading →

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