Carbon Neutral Shipping is Free to Our Customers

I'm very pleased to announce that as of January 1, 2008 The Paper Mill Store .com has begun shipping all of its outbound shipments in a carbon neutral manner. What this means is that we now calculate the carbon footprint associated with our out bound product shipping and purchase carbon offsets to lessen the impact of the carbon produced through our shipping. We do not charge extra for this service, this is just one more step we are taking to run our company in a more sustainable and responsible manner. We are now purchasing carbon offsets through the Carbon Fund to reduce the impact of our shipping process. Now when you buy paper and envelopes from us you can know that the carbon produced through the delivery of your purchases is being offset by a credible and verifiable organization.

For more than a year now we have been running our company using wind power purchased through Renewable Energy Credits and verified by Green-e. All the electrical power in our offices in Sun Prairie Wisconsin and in our distribution center in Neenah Wisconsin are 100% powered using renewable energy credits.

Neenah Paper Adds Carbon Neutral Papers

Neenah Paper has just announced that they have added carbon neutral papers to some of their best selling lines of paper. The six paper brands now offered as carbon neutral are, Classic Crest, Classic Laid, Classic Cotton and Starwhite. Starwhite was recently acquired by Neenah Paper during their purchase of Fox River Paper Company.

We have not received the specifics of the carbon offset purchased for these papers. I will follow up with more details when I receive them. I'll be meeting with the folks at Neenah Paper in a few days.

What we do know is that Neenah Paper is making real and substantive change to their business operations to lessen their impact on the environment. Just as an example Neenah Paper started buying Green-e offsets in 2006 and has since more than quadrupled their their purchases. Additionally this past May Neenah joined the Chicago Climate Exchange making commitments to further reduce their carbon output.

Monadnock Paper Mills Goes Carbon Neutral

I'm happy to report on Monadnock's continued support of sustainable manufacturing. Just recently Monadnock had purchased renewable energy credits to cover the 51% of its electrical usage that they did not generate themselves through their low impact hydroelectric dam. Now Monadnock has gone one better by purchasing carbon offset credits to offset the total carbon footprint from its manufacturing facilities as they relate to the manufacturing of their graphic arts and packaging papers.

Meet one of the nice folks at Monadnock in this video interview.

Bravo. Another step forward!