Applying Green

I went to the London College of Communication the other day. It's more famously known as the London College of Printing but they had a rebrand a few years ago. It's a great place and pretty famous amongst design colleges. Walking round there was that great feeling that 'stuff on the walls' gives you.

Anyway. If you're reading this and you're from the college here's a links to a few of things I talked about.

I basically regave (Tom, is that a word? I can't be bothered to look it up) my Applied Green talk. It was slightly different because things have moved on a bit and the audience was different, but here's a link to the talk pretty much word for word, videos and all.

Here's a link to a post called Green(ish) Printing which was written by Marcus Brown who is a printer. It's well worth a read. And remember I said you should get some printers in to talk to you. Do that. They know about this stuff and they like being asked.

Here's a link to Thomas Matthews website that I mentioned. Thomas Matthews are a design company that know a lot about sustainability issues. Sarah Thomas, one of the founders, also helped start Three Trees Don't Make A Forest which is a kind of resource for eco friendly designers. I must admit to having reservations about Three Trees. The picture of them all in the trees really makes me cringe. But it's a difficult and admirable thing they're doing and they deserve our support. (PS If you're reading this Sophie, Nat or Caroline I'd love you to come on here and talk about Three Trees.)

Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry about Ken Garland's First Things First Manifesto, which is a good thing.

Here's McDonald's Corporate Social Responsibilty blog and here's a blog post where Richard Reed from innocent Drinks says "I also sought the counsel of the MD of Greenpeace, who said that over the last five years mcdonalds have changed from being their number one enemy to their number one global partner in reducing deforstation in the amazonian rainforest".

And last and least here's a link to all my posts about being a design student and trying to get a job etc. Invaluable, obviously.

Comments

[Tom]

Strictly speaking Ben, NONE of those words you have used are proper English ones.

But they do look good centered.

[Ben]

Nothing looks good centered Tom. Have you learnedt nothing.

[Elle]

Argh! I don't believe i missed this!
I'm studying at LCC and read your blog everyday- it would have been awesome to see you talk... On something i'm really interested in too.
For a 'College of Communication', they're so bad at actually letting us know what's going on when!

[Tom]

I have 2 more comments. I will compress then into one 'Comment'.

1. You seem to have got the lighting all wrong in your presentation - you need a new projector.

2. Did you get some stuff in about drugs ? It's what most of these students understand by the term 'green'.