Neenah Paper
Life is full of important choices. This is especially true when it comes to protecting the environment. It’s simple cause and effect. For every action there is a reaction. No matter how you phrase it, it comes down to the fact that your choices are important.
You can take small steps from the comfort of your own home or office or you can go “hard core” and experience conservation in the heart of some of nature’s most fragile environments.
To shine a light on the impact of the choices we make when specifying paper, Neenah Paper has launched the “Birds of a Feather Flock Together Contest,” an eco-trip for two sweepstakes in which one lucky winner will have the opportunity to see first-hand the important steps being taken to protect the habitats of migratory birds and indigenous plants on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula.
Here, Neenah Paper is involved with a reforestation project in one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth that is also home to the 100,000-acre Corcovado National Park.
Forces of Nature
When it comes to the environment, Neenah Paper truly is hard core. And the same can be said of ENVIRONMENT Papers, which are FSC certified and available in four recycled fiber options: 30, 50, 80 and 100 percent. Some other environmental properties:
- There is zero percent waste in the making of ENVIRONMENT Papers. 100 percent of all waste is reused in some way, and none of it goes to landfills. In fact, there is zero percent waste in the making of all Neenah fine papers.
- ENVIRONMENT Papers is made with 100 percent renewable electricity, which means it is carbon neutral. As a company, Neenah sells more carbon neutral premium Writing, Text, and Cover paper than anyone in the industry.
Want to know more? Neenah’s new ENVIRONMENT Papers “Forces of Nature” promotion brings it. It delivers the facts and figures that tell the story of the sustainability of environmental products versus many of the materials used in our computers, cell phones and other electronic devices, and then discarded.
It also introduces five individuals who are making a difference through their personal and professional commitment to the environment. People like Kelly Stevens of Whole Foods in Austin, TX, who said it best: “We can all do SOMETHING. Just by making small changes in the way we live and in the decisions we make.”
Birds of a Feather
As part of the promotion, the “Birds of a Feather Flock Together Contest” runs from July 30 to September 30, 2010. During that time, designers, printers and any end user with a passion for the environment can enter to win the trip to Costa Rica.
One winner will be randomly selected from all entries to receive the all-expenses-paid* grand prize trip for two, which includes airfare, ground transportation, six days and five nights of accommodations at an ecologically friendly resort as well as a guided day-trip to the Neenah Reforestation Project, a project in partnership with the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin and Friends of the Osa. Neenah will offset the carbon footprint for the winner’s entire trip with carbon credits.
In addition to the grand prize, Neenah will award three $100 gift certificates (to REI, Keen Footwear and Patagonia) as secondary prizes. To be eligible for the gift certificates, participants can visit www.neenahpaper.com/environmentcontest and answer five easy questions designed to test their knowledge of ENVIRONMENT Papers. All completed quizzes qualify to win.
Says Kristen Hogan, senior brand manager for Neenah Paper, “While the eco-trip will give two people the chance of a lifetime to experience the reforestation project first-hand, the broader message is that even a simple act like purchasing environmentally conscious paper can set off a chain of events that ultimately leads to the protection and conservation of the world’s natural resources.”
A Partnership to Preserve
In 2009, Neenah Paper, with mills, finishing and distribution in Wisconsin, partnered with the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin and Friends of the Osa to help reforest this conservation property in Costa Rica.
One of the most biologically diverse regions in the world, the Osa Peninsula is widely acknowledged as a global conservation priority by organizations such as the Nature Conservancy and Conservation International.
In addition, this forest provides a critical habitat for 54 species of Wisconsin’s migratory birds that winter in the Osa Peninsula. Eighteen of those species are conservation priorities, three are threatened and one is endangered.
With Neenah’s support and contributions, the reforestation project is creating a new habitat for endangered wildlife, protecting and restoring viable plant and animal habitats, removing carbon from the atmosphere, and restoring land degraded by deforestation.
Now that’s hard core.
To be one of 250 lucky PaperSpecs readers to receive Neenah Paper’s “Forces of Nature” promotion, please e-mail samples@neenahpaper.com.
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*For complete sweepstakes summary, rules and restrictions, please visit www.neenahpaper.com/environmentcontest.
