Media Release - Environmental Paper Network

Corporate Leaders Join “Power Users” of the Paper Calculator Life Cycle Tool

For 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 […]

Green Printer Report Profiles Leaders in Forest Conservation

New Canopy survey results an invaluable resource for printers and their customers. For Immediate Release June 17, 2013, Toronto: Large-volume paper users, including Sprint and over 700 publishers and printers with ecopaper policies in place, are welcoming today’s release by Canopy of North America’s Green Print Leadership Report, a resource that will help them meet corporate sustainability goals. […]

RELEASE: ForestEthics Files Complaint in Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Charging that the “Sustainable Forestry Initiative” Violates FTC’s New Green Guides

Unprecedented number of consumers file similar complaints PRESS CONTACTS: Lauren Stansbury, 202-518-8790,lauren@mintwood.com; Ryan Fletcher, 202-641-0277, ryan@mintwood.com SEATTLE, WA – Today, ForestEthics, a leading forest protection organisation whose mission includes educating consumers about environmentally harmful forestry practices, filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking the agency to investigate the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)’s claim to […]

RELEASE: Environmental groups suspend further work with Resolute Forest Products under Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement

Commitment to ongoing work with other forestry companies remains strong PRESS CONTACTS: Todd Paglia, todd@forestethics.org, 360-734-2951 x201; Janet Sumner, janet@wildlandsleague.org, 416-971-9453 x39 or 416-514-579-7370 On the third anniversary of the signing of the historic Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA), environmental signatories are suspending further work with Resolute Forest Products. They remain committed to continuing their work with other […]

Release: Conservation Group Withdraws from Boreal Forest Agreement with Industry

Vancouver: Canopy, a leading forest conservation group, today announced its withdrawal from the once praised Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA), endorsed by forest industry and environmental groups to protect Canada’s Boreal forest. After almost three years since the agreement was announced, not one hectare of Canada’s Boreal forest has been protected. Canopy has determined more […]

RELEASE: Not much protected and no commitment to restoration in APP forest promises

Jakarta, Indonesia – The much-touted new deforestation policy of controversial paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) will save almost no forests in its main base of operations, Sumatra, Indonesia, a new report by NGO coalition Eyes on the Forest has concluded. APP and Sinar Mas announced the policy in February as “an end to […]

RELEASE: Canopy Recognizes Torstar Corporation’s New Commitment to Global Forests

TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Apr 2, 2013) – Torstar Corporation (TS-B.TO) has launched corporate-wide Environmental Purchasing Principles to encourage suppliers to eliminate the use of fibre from ancient and endangered forests, empower business units with the option of choosing to preference post-consumer recycled fibre and encourage improvement of all forest certification systems with Forest Stewardship Council certification […]

RELEASE: Alice Munro and Yann Martel sign rare collectors’ editions made from straw paper

For immediate release – March 6, 2013 Vancouver – Celebrated authors Alice Munro and Yann Martel have collaborated with award-winning environmental group Canopy to print collectors’ editions of their bestselling books Dear Life and Life of Pi. Printed specially on forest-saving paper made from straw rather than trees, the books highlight a viable solution to logging carbon-rich forests for paper. […]

RELEASE: WWF urges Indonesian pulp producer APRIL to immediately stop pulping tropical forests

Originally posted on WWF website – 12 February 2013 JAKARTA – Following the announcement by Asia Pulp & Paper that it has stopped all clearance of Indonesian forests, WWF is now calling on its competitor Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) to stop pulping tropical rainforest. “APRIL is now the single largest converter of natural forest […]