by John Mullinder | Oct 23, 2019 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News, Forestry
Vancouver-based environmental group, Canopy, has launched a global campaign against paper packaging, claiming that three billion trees “disappear into packaging’’ every year leaving “a trail of deforestation, degraded forest systems, threatened species, and an...
by John Mullinder | Mar 4, 2019 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News
As the executive director of the Paper & Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council for the past 28 years, John Mullinder has heard his share of (mis)information about forestry and paper practices in Canada – namely, that the clear cutting used in the industry is...
by John Mullinder | Jan 21, 2019 | Fake News, Forestry
To most people, ancient means old, as in really old. Think of the ancient civilisations of Africa and Asia; of the Incas and the Mayans; and of the ancestors of today’s Indigenous peoples. When we turn to trees, the ‘ancient’ benchmark belongs to the bristlecone pine...
by John Mullinder | Oct 15, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News, Forestry
Well not all of them yet. But I am honoured to summarise some very positive reviews of my recently published book: Deforestation in Canada and Other Fake News. Here’s a selection of them. For full review go to the Reviews page here. “The first chapters set out clear,...
by John Mullinder | Aug 27, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News
A recent campaign by the Canada Revenue Agency indicates that marketing messages touting the environmental claims of going paperless are falling on deaf ears. The agency randomly selected 25,000 Canadians who had been filing annual income taxes on paper, sending them...
by John Mullinder | Aug 25, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News
In these days of unfiltered social media, alternative facts and fake news, Canadians could be forgiven for believing that Canada is running out of trees; that large-scale deforestation is taking place in our own backyard; and that every time the paper industry wants...
