While the NSW government and the beverages industry continue to butt heads over the cash-for-containers scheme,Sydney residents have already been busy earning 'green money' for recycling more than just cans and bottles at home.

The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership is pleased to announce that Greenerprinter in Richmond, CA is among the most recent facilities certified as a SGP Printer. Greenerprinter is a graphics communications company, offering a complete range of printing services, including offset, digital printing, large format and display graphics, production design services, direct marketing services, finishing services, and warehousing and fulfillment services.

• Powering Africa: Summit, January 28-30, 2015, St. Regis Hotel, Washington, D.C.
• EnergyNet will host the Powering Africa: Summit from 28-30th January at the St Regis Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Issued by Commerce Bank, Sustain:Green biodegradable credit card offsets 2 pounds of carbon (CO2) for each dollar spent on net purchases, and 5,000 pounds upon first use

'Sustainable Innovation' and 'Manufacturing Champions' awards recently won to add to 'Best Process Plant' awards gained in 2011 and 2013

​In February, Stora Enso is one of the international sponsors of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Sweden. As the global rethinker in paper, biomaterials, wood products and packaging, we aim to take the lead in making sure the championship is run as a sustainable and responsible event.

By Sabine Slaughter

Indigo's safety and regulatory department received SAT level 3 certification as a UTL-Intertek CTL: Customer Testing Laboratory. The ETL-Intertek Satellite programs allows HP Indigo to qualify products for many safety regulations in-house instead of with third-party auditors. The CTL certifications covers most of the product safety testing of HP Indigo presses including dielectric safety, thermal and current input testing.

The American Forest & Paper Association's (AF&PA) new What is Recyclable? webpage and Improving Paper Recycling video promote increased quantity and quality of paper and paper-based packaging recovered for recycling. These new resources are part of AF&PA's ongoing effort to increase paper recovery.

Building on four years of helping cities improve services, IBM Smarter Cities Challenge invites local governments to apply for assistance from IBM pro bono problem-solving teams

Juniper estimates cumulative emission savings of 164 million tonnes of CO2 between 2014 and 2019

Competition to find the best green-building and cleantech start-ups

A partnership between National Geographic magazine and its paper supplier (Verso Paper Corp.) and printer (Quad/Graphics) helped determine the publication's carbon footprint and identify opportunities for further environmental improvement.