February 2012
 

FPWG Membership Now Open!

We are excited to announce that membership to the Forest Products Working Group (FPWG) is now open! This past October, we introduced the FPWG, which brings together leading companies that rely on paper, wood, and other forest products to share their knowledge and develop new solutions for making their businesses more sustainable. The FPWG, with eight founding members from across different industries, takes a unique approach to corporate sustainability by bringing together stakeholders to tackle unmet challenges in the forest products sector.

For its inaugural project, the group is designing a set of clear, science-based guidelines to inform decision-making for paper design, procurement, use, and recovery. Future opportunities for projects include increasing the availability of fiber sourced from sustainably managed forests, increasing the quantity and quality of recovered fiber, and exploring the benefits of alternative fibers. Please consider joining other leadership companies in this important effort to improve the health of the world’s forests. Any company that relies on forest products to meet its business objectives is invited to join the group. If you are interested in membership, please visit our website for more information or to apply, or feel free to contact us with any questions.

EPAT 2012 Outreach

GreenBlue’s Environmental Paper Assessment Tool (EPAT) introduced significant improvements with the release of version 2.1 in early 2011. The improvements included updated industry data and added functionality. Moving forward in 2012, GreenBlue intends to expand EPAT’s reach in the marketplace by building on current dedicated EPAT subscribers. EPAT subscribers are leaders in responsible paper procurement and have an interest in including all of their supply chain partners in the tool. GreenBlue will be providing support to dedicated EPAT subscribers in their outreach efforts to include more pulp and paper suppliers as well as end-users. Please contact Theron Jourdan with any questions on this effort.

In the Loop

New Pressures on the Forest—Insights from Page One: Inside the New York Times

The following is an excerpt from a blog post by Senior Program Manager Tom Pollock on GreenBlue's blog, In the Loop. Read all recent posts.

An excellent documentary film from last summer, Page One: Inside the New York Times, covers topics ranging from the Tribune Company bankruptcy, WikiLeaks, online news business models, and many current subjects impacting the Times and the news industry in general. There are many interesting elements of the film, (including any part with David Carr, the Times media columnist), but what I thought was particularly interesting was when the filmmakers asked the Times journalists and editors where they thought the newspaper industry and credible journalism was headed. In a nutshell, “Where will we get our news and will it be credible?” And though these are extremely well informed people at the Times, there really wasn’t one consistent answer amongst them and most admitted that they simply did not know. Read More

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