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The big names cannot help but pump out more sustainable paper products on an almost weekly basis. From biology college textbooks gone green to carbon friendly greeting cards, we’ve rounded up the top ten green papier goods that caught our eye.

More than 80 billion return envelopes are sent through the US mail each year in direct mailings such as credit-card statements, utility bills and other at an estimated cost of 1 billion pounds in greenhouse gas emissions and more than 71 trillion BTUs of energy. A company has come up with cost-effective, simple-to-use solution that eliminates the need for a separate reply mail envelope and helps to conserve precious resources.

Conservative bloggers denounce US Congresses' move to replace CFLs as a mercury health hazard and a "High Priest Al Gore of the Church of Global Warming of Modern Day Idiots (MDI)" falsity while of course, sourcing the "science" behind their claim as, what else, another conservative blogger's opinion.

LATEST in CFL Debate: No Actual Data on CFL migraine scare in The Daily Green

Fancy your envelopes made from exhausted banana trees? A sustainable crop and a useful way of using up the banana plantations as (so the site says) trees only produce one crop of fruit (actually a herb!!)

If you do just one thing...

Engage your suppliers to minimize the environmental impacts of the products they supply to you.

(Image source: http://blog.americanfeast.com)

If your post-holiday cheer and spending has put you in a slump about how to jumpstart your New Year's resolution to make your business run more efficient and tree-friendly for less (and who doesn't?), Ilana DeBare from the San Francisco Chronicle has the solution.

Today, the World Wildlife Federation (WWF) "graded" the top ten holding companies for luxury brands - including Bulgari, Coach, Hermes, L'Oreal, LVMH, PPR, Richemont, Swatch, Tiffany and Co and Tods - on "a scale of A+ to F for their environmental, social and governance performance and what non-governmental organisations had said about them".