Rizco Design

Almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. That’s one in eight of us. charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 100% of public donations directly fund water projects.

Mohawk Fine Papers was one of the many amazing sponsors of last night’s, charity: water 2009 Charity: Ball, where 1,200 people gathered at the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC with host, Adrian Grenier, to raise funds to provide clean drinking water to villages within Uganda, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia. One of many highlights is the “Water Catwalk” where attendees were encourage to walk 52 feet carrying two jerry cans that weight 40 pounds each. Africans walk 300 times that distance daily (3 miles) to gather enough water for cooking, cleaning and drinking. Time spent on this daily task would prevent you from earning an income or getting an education. If you are a woman, it puts you at greater risk of rape and assault.

… So yes, I joined my Mohawk rep, Cindy Salant, in handing over our drinks, shoes and handbags, and walking barefoot in our semi-formal dresses – a minimal effort in comparison to the journey that Africans make. Our reward was to learn and experience how fortunate we are to have clean drinking water.

High compliments to Viktoria Alexeeva Harrison, Director of Design & Branding, for the incredible visual displays and to Founder, Scott Harrison for turning big ideas into actions that touch so many lives … and for being so humble along the way.

For more information and to donate visit www.charitywater.org.

We recently had the privilege to develop and design environmental graphics for the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Trasnportation at Rutgers University.

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Rizco Design was one of the first 100 people to participate in Toppan Printing Company’s Earth Day 2009: Where Green is the Color of Print Competition where end-users were encouraged to visit Toppan’s site and find a tree image after learning about Toppan’s valuable environmental certifications including ISO and FSC.

As a reward, ten native pine, fir and cedar trees will be planted by The Arbor Day Foundation in the Plumas National Forest in northern California. The trees will help repopulate the thousands of acres that have been destroyed by fire in recent years. These trees will clean the air, grip the soil and provide food and shelter for bears, bald eagles, lynx, gray wolves and many more threatened animals.

For more information about Toppan Printing visit www.ta.toppan.com and to donate to rebuilding the Plumas National Forest visit www.arborday.org/join/tictim/forests/plumas/

We thank Toppan for including Rizco Design in this effort to preserve and renew the environment.

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Posted by Keith Rizzi