The way to have a good read

And why not! More of this, less into landfill and no loss of quality. To top it off it should bring down recycled paper costs not that there is a great difference anymore!

A Random Act of Mindfulness
Random House to bump up use of recycled paper

For you fogies who still read books made of ... what do they call it? ... "paper," here's some good news: Leading U.S. publishing company Random House announced last week that it plans to increase the recycled-paper content of its books to 30 percent by 2010. It's an ambitious goal, as only about 3 percent of paper currently used in Random House books is recycled. The average recycled-paper content in the biz is about 5 percent. Random House, which buys about 120,000 tons of paper each year for book production, claims that 550,000 trees a year will be saved when it reaches its goal. The initiative will be a "multimillion-dollar investment," but the company doesn't plan to raise book prices. Said Tyson Miller of recycled-paper pushers Green Press Initiative: "What they're doing is phenomenal."

one Good step

A late posting, but last week we got an excellent and hoped for phone call. Good Energy ( www.good-energy.co.uk ) called to say that after an informal presentation last month, Leap are to become their main design consultancy. This is brilliant for the development of Leap as well as the fact that the few people we have met from Good Energy seem really excellent people. We are hoping for a really good relationship out of this opportunity so look out for our joint work.

So now Leap works for our home and business energy supplier how cool is that!

Good Energy is available to homes and businesses in England, Wales and Scotland and offers a simple way for you to take environmental responsibility by cutting your contribution to climate change whilst not having to change your lifestyle.

This was a doubly good moment as we'd been holding off finding a replacement client now that the Recycle for Cornwall campaign that we branded and designed for the last 18 months comes to it's funding end in late May. Hopefully the energy, people and information will carry on making a difference in Cornwall, even better would be that the current team carry on doing the the fantastic work they have been part of, www.recycleforcornwall.org.uk