Environmental Perspective

I found this quote the other day. Tt really hit a cord with me and I wanted to share it.

Queensland Printing has always been an environmentally conscious printer but lately we have been working on some really innovative initiatives that will go very close to making our print manufacturing operation carbon neutral.

"Think of the climate as a small boat on a rather choppy ocean. Under normal circumstances the boat will rock to and fro, and there is a finite risk that the boat could be overturned by a rogue wave. But now one of the passengers has decided to stand up and is deliberately rocking the boat ever more violently. Someone suggests that this is likely to increase the chances of the boat capsizing. Another passenger then proposes that with his knowledge of chaotic dynamics he can counterbalance the first passenger and indeed, counter the natural rocking caused by the waves. But to do so he needs a huge array of sensors and enormous computational resources to be ready to react efficiently but still wouldn't be able to guarantee absolute stability, and indeed, since the system is untested it might make things worse. So is the answer to a known and increasing human influence on climate an ever more elaborate system to control the climate? Or should the person rocking the boat just sit down?"

— Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies,

To learn more on our environmental perspective visit www.qprint.com.au or email us at enquiries@qprint.com.au

Self Publishers Online

Great news for the writers and readers of books!!!!

This week, award winning Sunshine Coast printer, Queensland Complete Printing Services, has launched a website to assist Australian self publishers promote and sell their books.

Managing Director, Anne Blacklaw said " We have been helping people print their books for almost 20 years now and whilst we have been recognised as an industry leader in book printing we identified the final area self publishers needed help was in how to sell their books. We see www.selfpublishersonline.com.au as playing a significant role in putting writers and readers together. We have been working on this website for almost a year and it is great to finally have it out there".

These days traditional publishers seem to only want to back bestsellers yet technology allows shorter and shorter runs of books to be financially viable. Worldwide self publishing is taking off. More titles are being printed via self publishing than ever before.

Self published books are about passion. They express the passion of the writer which is often the culmination of a long love affair with their chosen area of interest. From cooking to health, humour to history, science to sport.... more and more people are expressing their love for a specific topic via the medium of self publishing and are enthusiastic about sharing their stories with people who share their passion.

If you love books as either a reader or writer then this website is worth a look.

Email us on enquiries@qprint.com.au or visit our website at www.qprint.com.au