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THE 11th HOUR

Scott Harrison, a former New York club promoter who decided to take a year off to do something more “meaningful” by spending a year helping others in Africa. That experience clearly changed his life and led him to the founding of charity: water. A rapidly expanding non-profit organization that managed to raise almost $1 million with only a couple of folks in a matter of 8 months. charity provides clean water to a lot of people who are in dire need.If you’re still looking for a last minute Mother’s day gift and have no idea what to get, we’d like to suggest water.

Lovely as a tree is a website that aims to help graphic designers take a more environmentally friendly approach to print projects. Advice on how to reduce the impact of a design, and contacts to help source environmentally friendlier paper and print.

Creative Review asked Caroline Clark, founder of the Lovely as a tree website and a graphic designer herself, for her tips on how print designers can lessen the impact of their work, titled How To Be Green(er).