June 24, 2009 - Media Post | Green may be the new black, but not for the reasons you might expect. "Colorblind," a cross-industry, cross-country study of consumers' "green" attitudes and behaviors conducted by Communispace Corporation in partnership with Design Continuum, reveals that there are many reasons people do (and don't) engage in sustainable practices themselves or favor brands that do.

June 23, 2009 | More than 98% of supposedly natural and environmentally friendly products on US supermarket shelves are making potentially false or misleading claims, Congress has been told. And 22% of products making green claims bear an environmental badge that has no inherent meaning, said Scot Case, of the environmental consulting firm TerraChoice. The study of nearly 4,000 consumer products found "greenwashing" in nearly every product category - from a lack of verifiable information to outright lies.

June 16, 2009 - Media Week | The U.S. consumer magazine industry will recover modestly by 2013, but only after falling sharply in the near-term, tamped down by the economic downturn and continued shift of readers and advertisers from print to digital, projects a new five-year forecast. Between 2008 and 2010, print advertising will plummet 22.8 percent to $9.8 billion before rising 14.3 percent to $11.2 billion by 2013, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2009-2013.

June 1, 2009 - Publishing Executive | The record-breaking decline in paper consumption has brought prices down with it. In the short term, we can all enjoy the price plunge. But two big questions loom. First, what’s the trajectory for pricing through the rest of this year? Will prices drop further or is backlash in store? Second, what are the consequences of the demand drop on the paper industry overall? The current price cuts can’t boost consumption back to levels the mills need for profitable operation. What other responses might the industry have?

May 26, 2009 | Ogden Publications, the largest and longest-running publisher in the green community, today reports it has offset 100 percent of its electricity usage by purchasing 2.4 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy credits (RECs). The investment offsets two years of electricity usage for its offices in Kansas and Minnesota, and printing of its 10 publications in Tennessee and Minnesota. “Our readers expect genuine environmental stewardship from us. Choosing renewable energy credits is one way we can support the technologies and policies we promote in our magazines,” says Bryan Welch, publisher and editorial director of Ogden Publications.