`Freezer Rat' warms holiday for children.
Byline: Ellie Oleson COLUMN: TELEGRAM & GAZETTE SANTA Santa's elves and Antarctic researchers are not the only ones who spend most working hours in the ice and cold year-round. While enjoying ice cream and other frozen confections, most of us never give a...

Changing industry a factor in mill sale.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard Weyerhaeuser Co.'s Springfield containerboard mill, visible from Highway 126, looks the same as it always has: a solid, gray plant with stacks puffing away. It gives no inkling of the sweeping changes under way since International Paper announced on...

Company to watch: Green Girl Events.
Innovative entertaining ideas that are gentle on the planet: That's the mission of Green Girl Events, a just-launched two-person party-planning firm based in Inverness, California. "People are shocked by the amount of waste produced at parties," says Denise Rocco-Zilber (at left), who co-owns the company with Molli Milner. "Much...

PIRA rolls out the future of wipes: a conference centered solely on wipes brings 100 attendees to London to celebrate the Fourth of July.
PIRA, an international organization headquartered in London, has moved beyond its focus on the global paper, packaging, printing and publishing industries. Its Future of Wipes Conference held in London July 3-5 was an initial foray into a new, associated industry. PIRA journalist Sara VerBruggen said, "The conference was a...

Staying alive at 125; Butler-Dearden credits service.
Byline: Priyanka Dayal BOYLSTON - When Butler-Dearden Paper Service Inc. made its first deliveries in 1882, a horse and buggy was used to carry boxes of paper and twine to Worcester-area businesses. Today, the company has six trucks that collectively make 120 stops each day, delivering thousands...

InteliCoat sells business unit.
InteliCoat Technologies has sold its Electronic and Engineered Films (EEF) business unit to Exopack Holding, Inc., a North American flexible packaging converter and provider of paper and plastic packaging solutions for the food, industrial, and medical industries. This new acquisition will be renamed Exopack Advanced Coatings and will maintain...

Springfield mill included in big Weyerhaeuser sale.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard International Paper, a global supplier of packaging materials, announced Monday that it plans to buy Weyerhaeuser Co.'s containerboard unit for $6 billion in cash. If the deal is approved by federal regulators, it would create the largest containerboard producer...

Ask the expert.
DEAR HABITAT, I have heard that rebates for residential solar power systems are being cut. Is this true? Bev Smith, Canberra ACT The solar rebate programme (or Photovoltaic Rebate Program) commenced on 1 January 2000, providing cash rebates to householders and owners of...

Camp Glen Mhor.
Our methods of controlling our energy and waste usage: * all interior incandescent bulbs switched to compact fluorescents (CF) * all exterior spots switched to CF (where fixtures allow) * all lights in areas with intermittent use set to timers (except places like...

New harvests: today, humanity relies upon rainforests for sustaining livelihoods, boosting economies and providing potential cures for such illnesses as malaria and cancer.
Forests have arguably played a larger role in the development of human societies than any other resource, bar water and soil. The prime marketable product of most forests today is wood for use as timber, fuel wood, pulp and paper, providing some 3.4 billion cubic metres of timber-equivalent a...