20 Year History of Real Commitment to the Environment!

Charley Daniel (founder and co-owner of Black Rainbow Printing) has spent his life successfully fighting for the environment with a deep and passionate commitment to change through individual action.

In the early 1980’s when Charley first began campaigning he quickly recognised that public pressure was, and still remains the most powerful tool to influence change. He was the first to campaign and lobby at a Governmental level for the availability of recycled paper in Australia.

In 1987, as a printer with a personal commitment to this cause, he established Black Rainbow, an environmentally responsible printing service which avoids the use of paper derived from the unsustainable logging of our old growth native forests. Combining 100% recycled paper, non-chlorine bleached, alternative fibre papers and organic based non toxic inks to further reduce environmental impacts.

Charley’s longstanding active involvement and associations with leading green networks such as RAG (Rainforest Action Group), FOE (Friends of the Earth), Native Forest Network, Bay Rescue, Wilderness Society and Greenpeace, instantly established a credibility for the integrity of Black Rainbow and it’s business philosophies and these groups along with many other environmentally conscious companies became customers.

Charley blockades a Rainforest Timber Ship in the Yarra River, Melbourne

This campaign by the Melbourne Rainforest Action Group culminated in the reduction of rainforest timber imports into Melbourne by 70%. It showed how effective public pressure can be and how refusing to support environmentally destructive products does have effect.