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About EarthPress
Resources for a Better World EarthPress specializes in books on sustainability topics and has published
EarthPress takes seriously the impact of book publishing on the Earth and its resources. EarthPress is committed to protecting the environment and to the responsible use of natural resources. As a book publisher, with paper as a core part of our business, we are very concerned about the future of the world’s remaining endangered forests and the environmental impacts of paper production. We are committed to implementing policies that will support the preservation of endangered forests globally and to advancing ‘best practices’ within the book and paper industries. EarthPress is committed to preserving ancient forests and natural resources. Our company’s policy is to print all of our books on recycled paper, with 100% post-consumer waste content, de-inked in a chlorine-free and acid-free process. All EarthPress books are printed on paper that is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council as 100% sustainably-harvested. In addition, all EarthPress books are printed using soy-based inks. As a result of these environmental policies, EarthPress and its parent company, Nova Publishing, have saved hundreds of thousands of gallons of water, hundreds of thousands of kilowatts of electricity, thousand of pounds of pollution and carbon dioxide, and thousands of trees that would otherwise have been used in the traditional manner of publishing its books. EarthPress (through its parent company, Nova Publishing Company) is very proud to be one of the first members of the Green Press Initiative, a nonprofit program dedicated to supporting publishers in their efforts to reduce their use of fiber obtained from endangered forests. EarthPress (also through its parent company, Nova Publishing Company) is also proud to be an initial signatory on the Book Industry Treatise on Responsible Paper Use (see: www.greenpressinitiative.org). In addition, EarthPress uses all compact fluorescent lighting; recycles all office paper products, aluminum and plastic beverage containers, and printer cartridges; uses 100% post-consumer fiber, process-chlorine-free, acid-free paper for 95% of in-house paper use; and, when possible, uses electronic equipment that is EPA Energy Star-certified. Nova’s freight shipments are coordinated to minimize energy use whenever possible. Finally, all carbon emissions from EarthPress office energy use are offset by the purchase of wind-energy credits that are used to subsidize the building of wind turbines on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota (see www.nativeenergy.com). We strongly encourage other publishers and all partners in publishing supply chains to adopt similar policies. click here to visit the EarthPress website
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