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Cal Poly To Host Green Media Conference

January 9, 2009
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.—With the theme, "Igniting Green Media Business Growth, Innovation & Resilience - Being Lean, Green and Profitable in a Shrinking Economy," The Business of Green Media Conference will address "bottom line" issues about not only how to implement sustainable practices, but how to do it profitably. This topic is extremely revalent for all media producers and purchasers. The conference that will take place on the Cal Poly campus in San Luis Obispo on January 22.

Two more national companies, Quebecor and US Ink, have become the latest sponsors of the 2nd Annual sustainability event co-produced by Cal Poly's Graphic Communication Institute and SustainCommWorld.

The sponsors to date are American Printer Magazine, Cal Poly's College of Liberal Arts, EskoArtwork, Ethical Markets Media, Graphic Arts Monthly, Gravure Association of America, Heidelberg, Hewlett Packard, Kodak, manroland, Point Of Purchase Online Network (POP), Printable Technologies, Printer's NW Trader Magazine, Printing Impressions Magazine, Printing Industries Association, Inc. of Southern California (PIASC), Printing Industries of Northern California (PINC), Quebecor World, Recharge Asia Magazine, RR Donnelley, US Ink, Utah Paperbox, and WhatTheyThink.
 

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