GAA 2010 Environmental Workshop - Sustainability in Printing: A Lifecycle Approach

June 15-17, 2010 | Hilton Milwaukee City Center | Milwaukee, WI

Calling all gravure publishers, catalogers, retailers and printers!  If you're seeking a deeper understanding of climate change in relation to the paper industry and how it affects you, you are not going to want to miss the Gravure Association of America's 2010 Environmental Workshop.

This year's focus is a topic that's on everyone's mind: sustainability.  With all of the new and exciting changes that are taking place in gravure, we are offering a workshop jam packed with useful and actionable information by covering an environmentally-friendly lifecycle approach to printing.

Educational keynote presentations and topics include:

•    Great Lakes Forestry & Sustainability Initiatives - Rachel Allen, Schedule Director in Governor Doyle’s Office

•    Forestry Certification and Small Landowners: How to Increase Certified Fiber Availability - Guy Gleysteen, Time, Inc & Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Representative

•    Managing Forests for Multiple Use: Balancing the new drive for alternative energy production with the forest products industry - Avrim Lazar, President and CEO FPAC; WE Energies Representative & UPM Representative

•    Climate Change Legislation: Current Status and Industry Implications - Elizabeth VanDerSarl Vice President Government Affairs, AF&PA

•    Print vs Digital: Is New Media as Green as it Promises to be When Considering the Whole Lifecycle? - Mark Huber, Vice President Climate Change Leadership FPA; AF&PA Representative; Best Buy Representative & Institute for Sustainable Communications Representative

•    Energy strategies in the supply chain - Flambeau River Paper Representative; Mark Daniel, Director of Energy and Technology Verso Paper; Quad Graphics Representative.

•    Carbon Footprint and Life Cycle Assessment: The Latest Research and Applications - Caroline Gaudreault Senior Research Scientist, NCASI

•    EPAT: What is New with Version 2 - Metafore Representative & Hearst Enterprises Representative

•    The newly published FTC Green Guide - Scot Case, TerraChoice Environmental Marketing

You can find more information and the schedule of these presentations, as well as register online, here.

We are also excited to offer a tour of a Quad/Graphics plant and the NewPage paper mill and research facility in Biron, Wisconsin. The bus will depart at 1:00PM on Thursday when the conference wraps.  We will also be taking an evening boat cruise that night with dinner sponsored by NewPage Corporation.  Overnight accommodations will be necessary on Thursday evening in Wisconsin Rapids at the Mead Inn and Conference Center and we will arrive back in Milwaukee at approximately 1:00PM on Friday afternoon.

Mark your calendars from June 15-17, 2010 (and Friday for the tour and boat cruise) and join us for the GAA 2010 Environmental Workshop.  For more information, please feel free to contact us at gaa@gaa.org – we'll see you there!