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Great Lakes Burning River Festival

Thursday, July 29th, 2010


The Great Lakes Burning River Festival was another huge success attracting over 10,000 people to the two day event.

The Burning River Fest celebrates environmental awareness and eco-friendly living. It is named after the infamous 1969 incident in which the Cuyahoga River caught on fire.

Local bands provided entertainment, several local vendors provided food and exhibits from area environmental groups and educational organizations were available for attendees to visit. This year the Great Lakes Brewing Company decided to brew 30 to 40 kegs of their most popular beer- Christmas Ale. The ale is normally only available for eight weeks in the winter.

All proceeds from the festival go to the Burning River Foundation, a nonprofit formed by Great Lakes Brewing to provide resources to sustain and protect regional waterways.


SE Blue printed all the large color format banners that lined the walkway to the festival.


The banners had environmental messages printed on them for attendees to read and consider while heading towards the main stage and Coast Guard station.


Local bands provided entertainment at various locations throughout the event.


Popular local artist Alex Bevan performs for the crowd.

3/50 Project Recommendation

Monday, October 19th, 2009

photoWaves1Great Lakes Brewing Company

Known regionally and nationally for their unique micro and seasonal brews, most everyone already enjoys the taste of Great Lakes beer. Yet no matter how big they get they still remain a locally owned company that understands the importance of community and continually strive to operate in the “greenest” way possible. For that we salute them!

The brewing company was established in 1988 by brothers Patrick and Daniel Conway. It was Ohio’s first microbrewery and to date is its most celebrated, award winning brewery. The brothers have always been environmentally conscious and made sure to integrate this into their brewing processes as well as extending it to reach most every facet of their business. The Great Lakes Brewing Company calls their Green program the Triiple Bottom Line. The three “bottom lines” outline their environmental phiosophy: to engage in economic, social and environmental practices that achieve a sustainable, yet profitable, business.

A cool fact about their logo: The three waves in the company logo not only reflect this Triple Bottom Line philosophy, they represent a concerted effort to the respectful use of beer’s most valuable ingredient – water.

Click here to see all that Great Lakes is doing on the green front.

Lean, Clean and Green.

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Many companies have been quick to jump on the “green” bandwagon claiming they’re “green” simply because they recycle the cans and glass from their lunch room.

At SE Blueprint we’ve made the commitment to ourselves, the company and the environment to make true changes in the way we do business in order to provide our clients with the quality products they expect while helping to improve the environment and our community.

Lean:

By securing relationships with recyclers capable of accepting a higher percentage of our printing waste we’ve reduced our landfill input by 90%. We also made the switch to printing all of our materials on recycled bond paper. These two changes have had a huge impact in the amount of waste we produce. As a result our dumpster, which used to be picked up every month, is now picked up every other month.

Clean:

To reduce our dependence on energy we installed skylights and switched to energy-efficient lighting and insist that our contracted delivery vehicles are hybrid vehicles.

Green:

Our network of nationwide RSA (Reprographic Services Association) printers enables plans and documents to be printed at any one of our 120 network locations. This saves our clients time and money and is at the same time a “green” initiative, reducing transportation emissions related to the usual long distance delivery of items.

As we continue to look for more sustainable ways to reduce our impact on the environment, we are proud that the changes we’ve made so far have already had such a huge impact. Choose to print with us and together we’ll make an even bigger impact!

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