No Comments Jul 28, 2010 Deep Green Thoughts
Archive for July, 2010
Farm Fresh
The air is cold and dry, the lights flicker uncomfortably. Your metal cart skids along the slippery floor, it’s back wheel get stuck as you try to push it. You reach for a package and find you can’t decipher any of the ingredients except for the fine print which says ’may contain traces of nuts’.
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4 Comments Jul 28, 2010 Green Tips
Choosing a Green Printer


In an effort to be more sustainable Omicron recently began to use Hemlock Printers for a variety of our custom print jobs. I had the opportunity to tour the 79,000 sq.ft. printing facility, located in Burnaby, BC. There I learned firsthand about their wide variety of FSC certified papers, the low VOC vegetable based inks they exclusively use and saw their extensive on-site recycling system.
2 Comments Jul 27, 2010 Resources
The Challenge Series - Lessons to Learn from Millennium Water
Ever wondered why the Olympic Village at Southeast False Creek has been so highly touted as a sustainable development? Now you can get insight into the process of the development, design, and construction process to understand the lessons learned from the process.
No Comments Jul 20, 2010 Green Practice






