
The Green PhD Thesis
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As a service to help you make the most sustainable choices when it comes to printing your sustainable PhD thesis, GreenThesis offers free hosting of digital PhD theses for a year. This way, you can have less theses printed and save a lot of paper, as well as money.
Below you can find a selection of our green theses, currently hosted on our website. For the landscape view of the cover design or to read the digital thesis, click the image to visit the author’s page.
Examples of
Green PhD Theses
Felix Fennemann
Handpainted design with eco-friendly paint in combination with digital design. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a Vibers® elephant grass cover.
Bas van den Berg
Handpainted design with eco-friendly handmade vegan watercolour paint. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a Vibers® elephant grass cover.
Robert Larruina
Handpainted design with eco-friendly handmade watercolour paint. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a Vibers® elephant grass cover.
Joyce Mulder
Completely handpainted design on bamboo paper using earth pigments and indigo. The theses were printed on 100% recycled paper.

Madelon Logtenberg
Design painted completely by hand using earth pigments. The theses were printed on 100% recycled paper.

Jori Fuhren
PhD Thesis designed by Elma Hogeboom, printed on recycled paper.
Laura Loman
Completely handpainted design, based on the hands of the family of the author. Printed on 100% recycled paper.
Barbora Waclawikova
Handpainted watercolourdesign depicting metabolic pathways in the gut. Painted using sustainable watercolours on Bamboo paper.
Suzanne Timmermans
Thesis designed during a one-on-one cover design workshop and painted by Suzanne herself. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a Vibers® cover.
Avis Nugroho
For this thesis on cheese production, Elma made special paint from Annatto seeds. The thesis webpage shows a video of this process.
Lara Wöhler
Thesis designed during a one-on-one cover design workshop and painted by Lara. Proudly printed with a Vibers® cover.
Alex Baker-Friesen
Digital design with digitally drawn elements, based on the Metamorphosis by Dali. Printed on 100% recycled paper by an ISO 14001 eco-friendly printer.
Rick Hogeboom
Completely handpainted design, including handmade French ochre paint for the earth surface. Printed on 100% recycled paper.
Audrey Meulendijks
Digitally drawn representation of varicose veins. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a Paperwise® cover.
Rosanne Anholt
Handmade design with handmade watercolors and homemade walnut ink. Printed on 100% recycled paper with an elephant grass cover.
Eduardo Preusser de Matos
Digitally drawn design in 19th century nature & lab journal style. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a Paperwise® cover.
Svenja Mintenig
Handpainted design with eco-friendly ochres and indigo paint, in combination with digital drawings and photos. Printed on 100% recycled paper.
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