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10 of the Best Environmental Justice and Sustainability Books Looking for sustainability books? With most of us spending lots more time at home in recent months, there is no better time to do some … read more

The Psychology of Custom Packaging (and How to Utilize it) Does Custom Packaging Really Matter? I doubt we’d have written an article if we didn’t think it mattered, but yes, if employed the right … read more

Plastic Rain and How To Reduce Microplastics Hint: To reduce plastic rain and microplastics in the environment we need to reduce, then reduce some more, reuse, and recycle (correctly and responsib … read more

10 Swaps your Ecommerce Business Can Make This Month It's Plastic Free July! Is your business considering a Plastic Free Month (or a plastic free week, or even a plastic free day)? Are you lo … read more

Plastic Free July: Guide to Help Your Business Ditch Single Use Plastic History of Plastic Free July In 2011, a group at the Western Metropolitan Regional Council in Perth, Australia decid … read more

Environmental Justice and the Sustainability Movement With the current groundswell of the Black Lives Matter movement in the aftermath of the tragic murder of George Floyd, I - like many - found m … read more

A Leap Forward in Sustainability: EcoEnclose & Living Ink Announcement Louisville, CO, June 16, 2020 -- EcoEnclose and Living Ink have officially partnered to offer Algae Ink™ to any company … read more

How Eco Businesses Can Support Black Lives Matter We, like so many, are in an era of reflecting, reckoning, and understanding how our efforts can help change the state of policing in t … read more

Why World Oceans Day is Important | What You Can Do Why World Oceans Day is Important It is hard to overstate how essential our oceans are - they are the lifeblood of the planet. Th … read more

Anti-Racism, Environmental Justice, and EcoEnclose Like so many, I am in the midst learning about, reflecting on and reckoning with police brutality and broad sweeping racial inequality that affec … read more

Supply Chain Lessons from COVID-19 There has been no escaping the vulnerability of supply chains these past twelve weeks. This is true whether your biggest issue was that you could not get your ha … read more

How to package fragile items for shipping Shipping fragile items? You have a few options to consider, depending on the item itself. Remember that "fragile" can mean a lot of different things.  … read more

COVID-19 Resources: Funding Opportunities For Small Businesses This piece was originally written on March 23, 2020. New funding opportunities are being announced and changed every day, so please&n … read more

What does COVID-19 mean for the environmental movement? Here are six reasons that our collective response to COVID-19 gives me hope for the climate movement, and six ways it causes anxiety. We'd l … read more

Earth Day 2020: How to Honor the Planet While Staying at Home Earth Day 2020 is shaping up to be an interesting one for a number of reasons. For one, April 22, 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of E … read more

How Far We've Come: Victories Since the First Earth Day It can often feel like the world is falling to pieces. We are steadily fed negative information at every turn - about the environment, polit … read more

Earth Day Turns 50 This Year Earth Day turns FIFTY this year! And while the fight to defend our planet is still underway, and arguably more important now than ever before, it is still incredibly i … read more

Is Environmental Sustainability Good for Business? We should all be aware that being environmentally aware is a good thing for the planet, but is environmental sustainability good for business, to … read more

Impress Customers with a Unique, Eco-Friendly Unboxing Experience If you have a child or have been on the internet in the last decade, chances are you’ve seen an unboxing video. On the surface, it … read more

What is the Most Sustainable Ink? | What Inks are Eco-Friendly We often get the question: Are your inks soy-based? or Are your inks vegetable-based? or Are your inks water-based? … read more

Find The Most Eco-Friendly Packaging Tape For many people, tape, labels and stickers can be a bit of an afterthought when it comes to packaging. Not so for the companies we serve! We are oft … read more

Our Love Affair With Soil And Why We Tread Lightly With Industrial Compost and Materials Made Through Industrial Agriculture There is something sumptuous about combing your hand through … read more

Green Your Ecommerce Business: Improve Your Sustainable Packaging Take A First Step Towards Your 2020 Sustainability Goals Looking to implement a more sustainable packaging strategy for your ecom … read more

Without reflection we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. - Margaret J. WheatleyLife can only be understood backwards; but it mus … read more

A Guide to Setting Your Sustainability Goals A lot of big companies set ambitious, inspiring sustainability goals for 2020 (or 2015, 2025 and 2030!).  But a study by Bain & Company demo … read more

Pantone vs. CMYK for Custom-Branded Packaging | Coated vs Uncoated There are so many acronyms in the world of colors - PMS (or Pantone), CMYK, HEX and RGB are mentioned frequently. Even withi … read more

Sustainable & Eco-Friendly Gift Wrapping Ideas for the Season Eco-friendly wrapping paper, gift bags and more are creative ways to offset our ecological impact around the holidays, so we can fully … read more

Here’s What to do With Those Annoying Produce Stickers Raise your hand if you've ever accidentally eaten the little produce sticker on an apple?! I've informally polled my friends and every single … read more

5 Climate Topics the Family May Be Able to Agree on this Thanksgiving Thanksgiving in the United States is a time where families gather to reflect upon their collective good fortune and resilien … read more

7 Creative Eco-friendly Packaging Examples & Tips When searching for eco-friendly packaging examples, it can often just seem like a bunch of brown cardboard. The truth is, however, that you can ge … read more

Eco-Friendly Adhesives In the World of Sustainable Packaging Wait, why are we writing about eco-friendly adhesives as a packaging company? When you think shipping packaging you probably think boxe … read more

What is Zero Waste? | Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost Chances are you’ve heard the term Zero Waste before. #ZeroWaste has been used almost 4 millions times on Instagram, and there’s little doub … read more