The Pressing Need for Forest Protection
The IPCC Special Report on Climate and Land made big news when it was released last month, mainly for its rather grim outlook about our planet’s future. The report confirms …
Author: Valerie Langer
The New Normal Will Be Full of Next Generation Solutions
In some business sectors, it is suspected that up to 50% of the supply chain will have disappeared in the wake of the pandemic. The effect of retail stores shuttering …
What’s In the Box? Part 1
Market pulp. This may be one of the least sexy commodities in the world, but it goes into making the paper boxes that sexier goods like clothing and electronics are …
Music to Our Ears – Canada Commits to Support Clayoquot Sound Protection Vision
Clayoquot Sound is not a type of music, it’s a coastal rainforest. But Clayoquot Sound in the 1990’s was to forest activism what Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” was …
It Started with a Storybook Ending – Part 2
And then the Work Began! “Build it and they will come!” that’s the aphorism. Imagining it would be just that easy. Canopy set out, in 2004, to build the market …
It Started with a Fairy Tale Ending
HOW WE STARTED THE PROJECT TO SPIN STRAW INTO PAPER The math didn’t work out. It was 2004. We were gaining ground on protecting two big areas of temperate …
Must Do. Can Do. Are Doing!
From Ecological Deficit to Regenerating Natural Capital Think of the soil, the fresh water we have had for millennia, the carbon atoms stored tightly away in coal and oil deep …
Turning Straw into Gold – Investment in Straw Pulp Mills
SEEDING SOLUTIONS I want to talk to you about why investing in agricultural fiber pulp manufacturing is necessary and makes good financial sense. I am not an investment professional, so …
What’s Old is New Again – Paper from Plants
SEEDING SOLUTIONS The time for a pulp and paper revolution has come. Mixing vats of tree pulp with various chemicals to produce newsprint, book grade, copy paper, cardboard packaging and …
