Franklin Goose is a wonderfully creative company with a flagship brick and mortar store in Richmond, Virginia and a great web store as well. They offer a huge variety of green children’s products, described as “Everything for your organic baby and family” We did not realize just how creative they were until we noticed their [...]

Because of his unwavering commitment to sustainability, one of our favorite customers is Tom Prinzing, the owner and founder of Zing Enterprises. Tom is also one of the most creative people we know, and his products essentially communicate important green messages to the people we work or live with. We recently spoke with Tom about [...]

Over the course of the last few months I have gotten to know John Mennell as he designed and built the Magazine Publishers Family Literacy Project. It is a program designed to help minimize waste by recycling magazines while helping to promote literacy. The concept was fascinating to me, and the more I learned, the [...]

Since adding our new oxo-biodegradable stretch wrap films to our Globe Guard® product line we’ve realized the substantial savings potential the product offers. Today, any time you can make a part of your business greener and reduce cost in the process, there is a chance to come out ahead on several different levels. Use Less Packaging [...]

In an unprecedented move, the Globe Guard Eco Consistency Award judges held a first ever midyear caucus and by unanimous vote decided to give Home Depot this prestigious award. OK, that all sounds quite impressive but the fact is that my wife took me shopping for the seasonal purchase of flowers for her garden and [...]

One of the best parts of doing what we do is the opportunity to meet some really neat people doing some terrific things for the world we all share. We were recently contacted by Mark Simmons, one of the co-founders of www.Useless.org a unique company selling very useful products for a very good cause. They [...]

In fact our green idea is fairly small and is only 15.75” X 14.25” X 9” high at its greatest dimensions. Some might even call it compact, so it can more easily be utilized in a small home or business office environment. What we offer is a rather unique recycling tote constructed out of Globe [...]

I recently had another “Madonna Experience”, with a potential customer who hesitated to make what he thought was the quantum leap from his current corrugated boxes, ALL the way to our Globe Guard 100% PCW recycled content corrugated boxes. Those conversations always make me think of the pop singer’s infamous hit, “Like a Virgin” because [...]

Image via Wikipedia The world of packaging is changing very rapidly and what was not green a year ago may be very sustainable today. A recent customer project has motivated me to do some research in an effort to update my knowledge base in this rarely used but usually fairly effective and efficient form of [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Some fear that a rotten economy will spoil the green packaging movement. The thinking goes, if people must choose between saving the world and saving their business, they’ll save their business. That’s true. However, the underlying assumption there is that green packaging is more expensive and therefore bad for [...]