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that I have a debilitating weakness for stationery. Paper products, notebooks, pens and pencils, you name it. I’ve got a whole—I am not kidding—crate full of unused notebooks and pencils, etc., etc. As a result, I usually try to restrain my stationery purchase impulses…with, as my track record shows, limited success. But I do try.

But when I was wandering around Target (another of my favorite activities) a few weeks back, I stumbled across something I just had to buy.

Everyone’s favorite color these days is green, and I’m no different; despite my paper habit, I do try to live in an ecologically friendly manner, and so when I saw these notebooks, paper products made from sustainable materials, I thought, whoa. Greenroom Eco makes notebooks, binders and filing supplies produced entirely from post-consumer recycled waste, and printed with non-toxic soy-based ink.

That alone is pretty cool, but what about the quality of the paper? Most recycled paper, in my experience, has the quality and durability of newsprint, which is to say, very close to none at all. Not so here; I wouldn’t have been able to tell that this paper was made from recycled material had I not been told. The paper quality rivals that of Moleskine or Rhodia (aficionados may disagree), which is a pretty big deal in my opinion. Check ‘em out!