I disagree Maryly, the discussion groups are being created to manage down the amount of email for subjects that are specific and may not apply to all.

Please limit the distribution of this discussion and/or take it offline.

Agreed it's a conundrum, the criteria is ill defined and this is a worthy discussion to have but it's also an argument that could rival the number of angels that can fit on the head of a pin.

How about hosting a Green Salon   at your studio one night to hash out a definition and establishing consensus on criteria? You could even use BlueJeans for those who couldn't physically attend.

Just trying to manage the mayhem.

Thx, H.

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> On Mar 25, 2018, at 10:44 AM, Maryly Snow <xxxxxx@snowstudios.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom and everyone else,
> I would like to see this discussion kept in the main simplelist group, rather than creating a separate discussion group. If the subject line retains the word GREEN than anyone who doesn’t want to read it can.
> But maybe others prefer a separate group discussion.
>
> Now that we are using Simplelists for our listserv, we can have a separate list. I just hate to see interesting
> information silo-ed.
>
> Maryly Snow
>
>> On Mar 25, 2018, at 3:48 AM, tgoglio <xxxxxx@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> I earlier thought I had responded to the list, but am now realizing that my response was to just one member.
>> Please see my reply as follows:
>>
>> It would be interesting to convene a discussion group on this topic. I for one am not a proponent of what are touted out hand as Green Technologies.  Many of these technologies, while friendlier to the end user, are actually much worse for the environment. Case in point, many water soluble products create larger problems than their non "environmentally friendly" counterparts. Unfortunately I find that too many people lack the knowledge or desire to properly conduct cost benefit analyses.
>> Are solvent based products inherently bad (by the way most of the water soluble products we use like inks are in fact petrochemical products). Is drilling for oil a bad thing ( would propose no, it is what we do with the oil – using it as an energy source)? Remember soy based inks? How environmentally friendly is growing soy for other than a food source? I would love to convene a discussion group for those interested and willing to do real "homework" on the subject.
>> I for one, as a technically trained and educated communicator, am sick to death of the printmaking world's asinine attempts at creating a more earth friendly media when they don't use all the facts or even anecdotal information available to them.
>> Just my two cents worth (which is worth about one and a half cents).
>>
>>> On Mar 24, 2018, at 12:30 PM, Julie Erreca wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Mar 23, 2018, at 10:45 PM, Maryly Snow <xxxxxx@snowstudios.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there a “green” or “climate-friendly” equivalent of screen printing? And if yes, what would it be called?
>>>>
>>>> Are “pronto-plate” prints the “climate-friendly” equivalent of lithography?
>>>>
>>>> Are monoprints made with water-soluble inks considered “green” or climate friendly?
>>>>
>>>> Just asking.
>>>>
>>>> You’ll notice that I didn’t ask whether solar plate or photopolymer intaglio was the green equivalent of etching because IT IS!
>>>>
>>>> Why the questions?
>>>>
>>>> Because CSP will be hosting an open-call national juried exhibition in September 2018 in San Francisco to coincide with, as an affiliate event with, California Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit.
>>>>
>>>> Put on your thinking caps.
>>>> Let your creative hand-eye-brain trio get going!
>>>>
>>>> Deadline for entry will probably be in June.
>>>>
>>>> Details will follow eventually.
>>>>
>>>> Maryly Snow
>>>> for Joanna Kidd and Helene Coté
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