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Tony Benn is just one of the authors supporting the Book Campaign
If you like a good read, you may be unnerved to realise many books have been printed at the expense of ancient forests, and that paper fibre can be the product of destructive or illegal logging. But don't put down your Jackie Collins just yet - the good news is that the publishing industry is gradually getting the message.
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The aim of the Book Campaign is to persuade book publishers to introduce paper procurement policies which commit the company to only using ancient forest friendly paper - that is, paper that has a high recycled content with any virgin wood pulp it contains certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.
Posted by jamie — 11 December 2006 at 11:33pm
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We haven't made a lot of fuss about the Book Campaign for a while, but it's been slowly simmering in the background and the results have been pretty impressive. Publishers have been keen to adopt forest friendly policies so they use more recycled paper and paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, and to date over 40 per cent of UK publishers are on the road to going green.
Posted by jamie — 11 December 2006 at 9:00am
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We haven't made a lot of fuss about the Book Campaign for a while, but it's been slowly simmering in the background and the results have been pretty impressive. Publishers have been keen to adopt forest friendly policies so they use more recycled paper and paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, and to date over 40 per cent of UK publishers are on the road to going green.
Posted by admin — 31 May 2005 at 8:00am
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A team of staff and volunteers were busy working away at this year's Hay on Wye Book Festival - promoting the Greenpeace Book Campaign to the tens of thousands of authors, publishers and members of the general public who descend on Hay once a year for a feast of literary talks, films and workshops.
Posted by admin — 25 April 2005 at 8:00am
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In May Greenpeace closed our Forest Rescue Station (FRS) located at Inari, Lapland, having achieved our objective of temporarily ending logging on valuable forest lands and in anticipation of talks on the future of the forests that were scheduled for June.
Posted by admin — 2 March 2005 at 9:00am
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A group of Europen writers have arrived at our Forest Rescue Station, situated 300 kilometres norh of the Arctic Circle in northern Finland, to see for themselves the effect of relentless logging on the last Sàmi reindeer forests. The Sàmi are indigenous reindeer herders who rely on Lapland's remaining old-growth forests to provide vital food for their herds during the cold winter months. The reindeer forests have been reduced piece by piece by the government's own logging company, Metsähallitus, which carries out most of the logging in Lapland.
Posted by admin — 23 February 2005 at 9:00am
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JK Rowling's UK publisher Bloomsbury has just confirmed to Greenpeace that 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' will be printed on a part ancient forest friendly paper. This will be the first best selling book to be printed on such a paper in the UK.
Posted by admin — 22 February 2005 at 9:00am
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Hedwig the owl visited JK Rowling's UK publisher Bloomsbury today on behalf of the Greenpeace Book Campaign. He asked them to print Harry's latest adventure, 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince', which is due out this summer, on ancient forest friendly paper.
By taking such a step Bloomsbury would be helping to protect some of the world's last ancient forests and the muggle creatures that depend on them.
