Editor’s Note: The EPN is posting this release due to its relevancy to Forest Carbon Counts our collaborative project to determine a full and accurate accounting for biogenic carbon emissions for forest products. ——– For Immediate Release, July 12, 2013 Contact: Kevin Bundy, (415) 632-5313, kbundy@biologicaldiversity.org WASHINGTON— A key federal court ruling today confirmed that Clean […]
Read MoreOn 9 July 2013, the EEPN has published the results of our assessment of 60 UK organisations’ paper efficiency (media release below). Read the results in our Paper Efficiency Scorecard. New scorecard reveals need for action on paper efficiency NGOs challenge all sectors to improve paper efficiency to reduce carbon footprint A Paper Efficiency Scorecard […]
Read MoreThe EEPN has commissioned a paper analysing the carbon footprint of the full lifecycle of paper, which indicates that if the full impacts of production, use and disposal are taken into account, paper may be responsible for more carbon emissions than global aviation. The EEPN encourages comment and discussion on this paper, which can be […]
Read MoreOn Tuesday 9 July 2013, the European Environmental Paper Network (EEPN) launched the results of our assessment of the paper efficiency efforts by 60 UK organisations – here. We also launched a discussion paper about ‘paper vapour’, the climate change impacts of paper production, use and disposal – here. These publication launches coincide with an […]
Read Morevia WWF-Indonesia 1 July 2013 WWF welcomes APP’s recent clarifications in June 2013 of its “forest conservation policy (FCP)” that it is committed to “an absolute deadline of 31 August 2013 for all natural forest wood felled prior to 1 February 2013, to have reached its pulp mills. After this date, no natural forest fibre […]
Read MoreI suppose I’m feeling a bit sentimental in these summer months. Lingering over good times with dear friends, spending more time with nature, and of course forever more keeping a close eye on maintaining all that we love about our wild places, in hopes that generations ahead of us will have the same sense of […]
Read MoreFor Immediate Release June 25, 2013 Contact: Kim Porter, Environmental Paper Network, 828-645-5340 Environmental Paper Network Welcomes Four New Corporate “Power Users” of the Paper Calculator Life Cycle Tool Asheville, NC – Four more corporate sustainability leaders have joined the Power User program of the Environmental Paper Network’s Paper Calculator. The Paper Calculator is the premiere, independent life […]
Read MoreFor Immediate Release June 25, 2013 Contact: Kim Porter, Environmental Paper Network, 828-645-5340 Environmental Paper Network Welcomes Four New Corporate “Power Users” of the Paper Calculator Life Cycle Tool Asheville, NC – Four more corporate sustainability leaders have joined the Power User program of the Environmental Paper Network’s Paper Calculator. The Paper Calculator is the […]
Read MoreThis week marked a landmark event in the ongoing transformation of the paper industry as Step Forward Paper, made from 80% wheat straw and 20% FSC certified wood pulp, hit the shelves at Staples stores across the US. Here’s a video from Woody Harrelson, one of the owners of Prairie Pulp & Paper, which produces […]
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