Crazy Sustainable Commute Training for 2011
The official training video of the 2011 Crazy Sustainable Commute is live! See how Canada’s top creative minds carefully craft the most sustainable method to commute for Sept 29th’s challenge. The MET team are in training and we challenge all comers to NOT use your car.
For more info go to www.crazysustainablecommute.org
Sign up, pledge your method and get your chicken on. er, perhaps something you find in your basement…
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Following a record length filibuster (i’ve always wanted to use that word in context) royal ascent was given by the Governor General late Sunday evening to legislate the Canada Post employees back to work as of today. Mail processing should get back to normal in the next few days once the backlog is dealt with.
Traditional Print Direct Mail markets have been in decline for the past few years, now that the Canada Post Corporation dispute has been settled we project a short term push in DM production but this once again sets marketers thinking, what is next? When producing DM, MET has always stressed quality over quantity, our experience shows that something created well, with focus and environmental consideration has much greater impact than a flood of “normal”.
For those delicate readers, this dispatch has been lightly edited.
“Well,I had my %&$ fixed up yesterday and was back in the saddle for the 168 km day today. I rode really well, but by about 75km the $#&^%# pulled off. I then rode the next 25 km standing which was ok, big ringing it most of the way. Unfortunately by 100km I realized that standing for another 68km was not sustainable, so I had to bail, all in all happy with the day. Jon didn’t start today, he had bad gut rot. Adam suffered today and Richard wasn’t having any fun. This is a TOUGH race, very big distances which really wear you down. Tomorrow is another day, i’m taking them one at a time. Even Adam, Sam and Jon are middle packers.These young pro’s are very very fast. Thanks for keeping in touch. B ”
Bob, Team MET is 100% behind you, go take that next hill!
Sounds like Bob’s idea of fun.
“Yesterday was a day from hell. The climbing was HUGE,it poured rain at 6000ft,almost froze,fell over the bars at high speed twice and ended up in the clinic getting patched up. On to the next. This race is a death march. ”
We are all rooting for you Bob, keep the cadence.
Team MET
We came across a great local group of UBC students and eco entrepeneurs that are building Vancouver’s Tool Library in our Commercial Drive neigborhood and they are looking for tools. Help spread the news and come out to their open house Sat april 30th for a whopping pancake breakfast.
This week, Faulkner is heading off on yet another adventure, his first attempt at the Transportugal Garmin, a 1,150-km multi-stage mountain bike race crossing Portugal from north to south. The race gets underway in Bragança April 29 and wraps up in Sagres in the Algarve May 8.
While Faulkner has countless adventure races under his belt, it wasn’t something he got into until later in life. Focused on running a successful business, he realized he needed to make a change. “You get a little fat and lazy with the expense accounts and all the other things that go with it,” he says. “It was only when I turned 44 that I realized that there was no longevity to this stuff. It wasn’t an epiphany, I just realized I had to get fit again.”
Faulkner started training, did an Ironman competition, and the rest is history.
He encourages others to not let self-doubt, either in terms of their fitness potential — thinking they’re too old, or not strong or fit enough — or a perceived lack of time, get in their way. “You know what, you can do it,” he says. “You just take it easy in the beginning and you’ll do it in the end.”
“I want other people on the Shore to understand that at 63, you can still do whatever you want,” he adds.
Read more: http://www.nsnews.com/travel/Trail+blazers/4668184/story.html#ixzz1KZxvgat4
Nike Vision Catalog produced by MET Fine Printers is featured on PaperSpec website. This retro catalog is produced with custom UV treatments to emulate aged peeling photographic gelatin. We were challenged to print 300 rush books for Nike’s tradeshow in Italy, with files on wednesday, we printed 300 copies with our INDIGO 5000 and shipped the next day. Check it out.
Multi Juno winning Jazz musician Chris Tarry launched his custom 100 page book bound CD Package “the rest of the story” to rave reviews.
Designed by Vancouver’s Rethink as a traditional case bound book with hidden diecut recepticle inside the beautifully crafted piece. This video gives a glimpse into the production at MET Fine Printers facility in Vancouver BC.
Chris Tarry Video of Custom CD Package by MET and Rethink Vancouver
MET Printers is featured this week on SuperCool Fold of the week with a commercial printed project produced for Polygon Homes, designed by Switch United. This innovative design Anchor and Plinth style custom binding eliminates glue and staples to hold the book together. MET takes green printing to a new level with green binding. SuperCool. For more on how to print and produce custom specialty projects, just reach out and say hi.
