It’s fitting that fifth year celebrations are known as “wood” anniversaries since that’s largely what this one is about. On August 5th, Kimberly-Clark and Greenpeace will mark five years of the company’s new fibre buying policyand the end of the “Kleercut” campaign. That day, conflict and confrontation turned into collaboration that continues to this day. The story of […]
Read MoreAs Greenpeace launches Forest Solutions: An insider’s look at Greenpeace collaborations in forest regions around the world, Greenpeace B.C. Director Stephanie Goodwin offers her perspectives on forest-based collaborations. This blog post was originally published on the website of Greenpeace Canada. I have a saying: when you have a knotty problem, widen the circle of brains working on it […]
Read More‘+ + + ROBIN WOOD press release + + + The furniture store wants to change the product range of its Paper Shop* to FSC-certified or recycled paper products. After ROBIN WOOD’s criticism of IKEA because of their sale of paper produced by the destruction of tropical forests the furniture store has announced consequences: Until […]
Read MoreOriginally posted by Greenpeace Canada and by Richard Brooks, Forest Campaign Coordinator Three of Resolute Forest Products’ Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certificates were suspended yesterday. The suspensions prohibit Resolute from labeling their pulp, paper and wood products from a vast area of Boreal Forest in Quebec’s Lac St-Jean and Ontario’s Black Spruce-Dog River Matawin regions. […]
Read MoreThe controversial, industry-sponsored logging certification scheme known as the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has been making news lately, and it’s been a bit ugly. First, SFI is facing a formal complaint of greenwashing to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), more on this below. And second, its advocates have been drawing anger from businesses and citizens […]
Read MoreBy SCOT QUARANDA, CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR, DOGWOOD ALLIANCE Exciting news! In late October, KFC released a new sustainable packaging policy that we can get behind. We’ve been studying the implications of the policy and talking with the company’s biggest suppliers to ensure that there’s real change on the ground for our forests. After much analysis, we […]
Read MoreNew Leaf Paper recently announced a major product innovation that significantly expands availability of high post-consumer recycled coated paper, used for high quality print projects. For the first time, companies with a commitment to environmental responsibility can choose a matte, gloss or silk coated paper that communicates their values through high post-consumer recycled fibre content. […]
Read MoreToday, Disney adds its significant voice to the growing chorus of companies demonstrating that there’s no need to sacrifice endangered forests in Indonesia or elsewhere for the paper we use every day. This entertainment giant, which is the world’s biggest publisher of children’s books and magazines, has adopted what may be one of the most far-reaching […]
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