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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 […]

EPN’s April Featured Member: Re-nourish

April showers are already watering the flowers. The climate is quite unsteady, and among our many brilliant members that assist in regaining balance, there is one who is taking a unique approach. Does the spring chicken in you want to know how? I thought so. This month I asked some questions of Eric Benson. He […]

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USDA Considers Deregulation for 1st Genetically Engineered Forest Tree

by Will Bennington, for Global Justice Ecology Project The USDA is accepting public comments on a request by GE tree company ArborGen to commercially sell hundreds of millions of freeze tolerant genetically engineered eucalyptus trees annually for vast plantations across Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. Government approval of GE eucalyptus trees would set a […]

National Geographic’s Latest Great Discovery: Recycled Paper Better in 14 of 14 Eco Categories Analyzed

There’s big news today for one of the icons of the magazine publishing business, National Geographic. Its been ten years of discussion, debate, and ultimately a detailed analysis by an independent consulting firm. Now, the results are in: Using recycled paper in magazines is better for the environment. The results strongly confirm again the results […]

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. […]

The Complicated Case of Black Liquor, Part 2

This is part of an ongoing series of articles as a part of the Environmental Paper Network’s Forest Carbon Counts project. Read other articles in the series here. Part 1 of The Complicated Case of Black Liquor introduced how black liquor, a sludge-like byproduct of the kraft pulping process, is emerging as a key component of […]

EPN’s March Featured Member: ForestEthics

The time has come again for an interview with one of our inspiring members. It’s the month that brings us “March Madness,” and I’d like to share my discovery that there are a few different classifications of the term for our readers, including: 1) A single-elimination college basketball tournament held each spring in the United […]

The Big Picture

For years, advice on responsible paper purchasing was coming from so many directions it was impossible to act with confidence. But today, many environmental organisations work collaboratively under the umbrella of the Environmental Paper Network (EPN). Together and independently, we have created a variety of tools available for paper purchasers. Purchasers may know some or […]