Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Flickr and O'BON
O'BON USA has created a visual display of each O'BON product. Help yourself and enjoy the wonder of these products. Get it here.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Link with us!
Eco-Friendly Stationery
Eco-Friendly Stationery
LINK TO US!
1) Copy the code from the boxes below the image (or images)
2) Then, go onto your website/blog and paste it.
3) The flash image should appear on your website!
4) Need help? Drop me a comment.
If you want us to link with you please send me your link or website!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Eco-Friendly Office Paper: It's new from O'BON!
We have announced that O'BON is using SugarCane Paper in all our notebooks. This may need some explanation to all our O'BON fans. Why SugarCane Paper? First, when we looked at recycled paper, we were not too impressed with most of it. For example, recycled paper tends to either be brownish and with "threads" embedded. When we looked carefully at the "whiter" paper, we discovered that of this type recycled paper only had a 40% recycled content. This was just too low for us.
As we acknowledge that our SugarCane paper is not recycled paper, it is 86% sugarcane. This leaves a small percentage of actual wood in our paper. Furthermore, given the nature of sugarcane, it is so much easier to make sugarcane paper than wood paper or recycled paper. Many of you know that the paper industry collectively is the 3rd biggest pollution on our planet. So, O'BON really wanted to look for "something different." We think the solution to the paper pollution large footprints is looking at alternatives to the wood paper industry. So much energy and pollution is caused by this business, we need desperately to find solutions.
The wood paper industry destroys huge tracks of forest and rainforest. Moreover, the amount of energy to grind it down to pulp is fantastic. It made sense to us to look at sugarcane as an alternative.
Sugarcane is a plant that grows in the tropics and semi-tropics. It grows quickly in clumps. It does not require heavy doses of fertizers to make it grow quickly. It is more like a weed. It just grows and grows. Two or three "harvests" can be taken each year from this fast growing plant.
The sugarcane is very fiborous and sweet juice is extracted easily with a simple press. Once the juice is extracted, it is usually thrown away. So, why not put it on a truck or ship and take it to a paper mill? Here, the already stripped plant can be made into the pulp necessary to make our sugarcane paper. No big saws or gigantic grinders are necessary for sugarcane pulp paper.
Join us in embracing this type of paper for your office or school printing needs. We call our sugarcane paper: L'Papier d'eco. This paper comes in 80 grams with 500 sheets in one packet. Look for this soon at eco-friendly shops and web outlets.
This is a nice photo of our coloured pencils. It is on a great Australian eco-friendly web site
at www.eco-essentials.com.au. Check them out
This site describes O'BON pencil as:
O'BON Wildlife Colour Pencils(12)
Our Price: $8.50
Material: made from recycled newspaper
O'BON create products that protect our world and are exciting to use!
Each pencil is made from old newspaper using a patented roll-on method that ensures the lead in the pencil does not break easily.
Its quality is proven to last two to three times longer than ordinary wooden pencils. Manufacturer is ISO 9001 certified.
O'BON pencils are completely non-toxic, and carry an European EN-71 certification. They even use a non-toxic, water based glue, which is the safest and best alternative for products used by children.
These pencils are water resistant, easily sharpened and splinter free
No forest was destroyed to create O'BON pencil!
An Australian site has started selling our pencils....www.ecobabe.com.au. Actually O'BON has a lot of websites discussing, selling, studying, analyzing, recommending O'BON in Australia. We are just delighted. We will show you some...this one....www.ecobabe.com.au
Product Information
Gone are the days when pencils came in bland colours, broke constantly and consumed valuable environmental resources. O'BON pencils are made from old newspaper, and manufactured in a variety of hip designs and colours.
We have lovely 2B lead pencils that are just soft enough to write smoothly and the funky coloured pencils where each colour matches the skin, fur or shell of one of the featured animals. The colours are rich, smooth and not waxy - key qualities of a superior pencil. These pencils make great gifts and will inspire kids to draw and colour.
Available as:
2 pack of 2B lead pencils $2.75
10 pack of 2B lead pencils $7.50
12 pack of coloured pencils $10.95
O'BON Pencils are
* quality, recycled newspaper pencils
* non-toxic, meets European Standards (EN-71)
* 100% environmentally friendly and saves our forest
* made from recycled newspaper using patented 'Rolled On' method
* water resistant and last 2-3 times longer than ordinary wood pencils
* well protected so that the lead doesn't break easily
* easily sharpened and splinter free
Product Information
Gone are the days when pencils came in bland colours, broke constantly and consumed valuable environmental resources. O'BON pencils are made from old newspaper, and manufactured in a variety of hip designs and colours.
We have lovely 2B lead pencils that are just soft enough to write smoothly and the funky coloured pencils where each colour matches the skin, fur or shell of one of the featured animals. The colours are rich, smooth and not waxy - key qualities of a superior pencil. These pencils make great gifts and will inspire kids to draw and colour.
Available as:
2 pack of 2B lead pencils $2.75
10 pack of 2B lead pencils $7.50
12 pack of coloured pencils $10.95
O'BON Pencils are
* quality, recycled newspaper pencils
* non-toxic, meets European Standards (EN-71)
* 100% environmentally friendly and saves our forest
* made from recycled newspaper using patented 'Rolled On' method
* water resistant and last 2-3 times longer than ordinary wood pencils
* well protected so that the lead doesn't break easily
* easily sharpened and splinter free
Pencil me In.....
www.ozolife.com has a nice picture of an O'BON pencil and an endorsement. Thank you, we like your eco friendly site, lots of info.
Pencil Me In
O'Bon Pencils and Notebooks
How do you know you're officially an adult? When the smell of new folders and crowded school supply aisles stop evoking a bittersweet thrill. But here's something worth stuffing in the millennial generation's backpacks: woodless pencils from SF-based company O'Bon, which bypass the whole deforestation thing by wrapping the pencils' graphite 36 times in used newspaper. And the best way to embarrass text-happy kids who are too cool for school? Leave 'em an unabashadly mushy lunchbox note on bagasse paper (sugarcane pulp after it's been juiced) from an O'Bon notebook.
Available online at myobon.com.
Pencil Me In
O'Bon Pencils and Notebooks
How do you know you're officially an adult? When the smell of new folders and crowded school supply aisles stop evoking a bittersweet thrill. But here's something worth stuffing in the millennial generation's backpacks: woodless pencils from SF-based company O'Bon, which bypass the whole deforestation thing by wrapping the pencils' graphite 36 times in used newspaper. And the best way to embarrass text-happy kids who are too cool for school? Leave 'em an unabashadly mushy lunchbox note on bagasse paper (sugarcane pulp after it's been juiced) from an O'Bon notebook.
Available online at myobon.com.
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