Huh-wha?!? Yes, that’s right…we’ve removed the recycling bins and there’s no more separating trash here at 99. But how can that be?

Ok…hold on…there’s got to be a good explanation, right? Yes, indeed. You see, we’ve stopped recycling simply because we’ve run out of things to recycle. How is that possible?

Over the past year, we’ve worked hard to become a paperless office…with great success. With little or no exception, all business is now done with electronic documentation. From proposals to compositions to invoices, we’ve made the complete switch…everything is paperless.

Without paper to recycle, the only remaining recyclables around the studio were our water bottles. Switch! We’re now using stainless steel refillable bottles, filled with filtered tap. No more plastic.

After these eco-friendly mods stuck we discovered that our recycle bins sat empty…really empty. So we stopped using them. We’ve stopped recycling because we’ve stopped using the things that needed to be recycled. We’d like you to think about doing that too.

Got a green story of your own?  We’d love to hear about it.  Drop us a note.

Braiden Rex-Johnson is a best-selling cookbook author; a regular contributor to Pacific Northwest, The Seattle Times Sunday magazine; and a columnist for Wine Press Northwest and Amazon.com’s Al Dente blog. She also knows a thing or two about staying current.

We re-designed her website in 2006. Since then, there have been a lot of stylistic and functional changes in the web world and Braiden wanted to stay ahead of the wave. Last month, we launched a refresh of her design, widening the layout, simplifying graphic elements and content, and integrating a Content Management System throughout the entire site.

Braiden’s website is rich and deep with content and bringing all that information into a CMS provides better site-wide search functions and gives Braiden the ability to edit all of her content. Very cool.

We love Photo Fridays.  While working in Orlando this week, we took a break and hung out at Cocoa Beach.  Here, we caught friend of the studio, Shawn, at the end of an afternoon of surfing.