LIA February Meeting

Guest speaker, Phillip Lawrence, whose industry background is well known and whose academic research spans the past ten years will tackle the myths and facts of the impact of printed products on the environment.  His topic will be: 'Print is helping destroy the planet ... a convenient lie'.

Whenever any large corporation or government wants to make a  statement to
their stakeholders about the environment, predictably, the first thing they say
they're going to do is cut their printing requirements.

The reasons why organisations act this way, is more to do with the fact that it
sounds right, they relate printing to paper and paper to trees. For many people
there is this seemingly logical link between saving paper saving trees and saving the environment. The truth is that the environmental problems facing the world are far more complex than such a simple solution could offer.
Phillip Lawrence will endorse the proposition that printers are accidental environmentalists and that very few industries could compare so positively with how print has reduced its environmental footprint over the last 20 years.

Bookings close at 12 noon on Friday 12th February 2010
Members and Non members $40.00.
Enquiries about this meeting to Bob Lamont  9876 4049 - 0407 914 156