Champions of ancient forest friendly paper honoured

Markets Initiative, the doughty champions of ancient forest friendly paper use in Canadian publications, has given out "Order of the Forest" awards to a number of people at magazines and printers for their support and encouragement of the cause. The awards were made Friday at the MagNet magazine conference. Since this is the first time the awards have been given out, there was some catchup to do, with some awards back-dated:

• 2004
  
• John Thomson, (past) Publisher, Canadian Geographic, for the role he played in the development of the first Magazine Ecokit and the public launch of our work with magazines
• 2005
• Alison Jones, Publisher, Quill & Quire, for leading the redesign that allowed Quill & Quire to be the first of the St. Joseph Media titles to switch to Ancient Forest Friendly paper
• Lynn O'Hearn, Sales Representative, St. Joseph Print, for going above and beyond to help her clients use Ancient Forest Friendly and eco paper
• 2006
• Jodi Books, Production Manager, explore and Cottage Life for doing all she has done to help the company implement across all departments.
• Maria Mendes, Manager of Print Production, Transcontinental Media, for her production support in helping Canadian Home Workshop and Outdoor Canada be the first Transcontinental Media titles to use glossy Ancient Forest Friendly paper
• Christian Dogimont, Publisher, HoBO, for wanting to use Ancient Forest Friendly paper so much he switched HoBO to uncoated paper... And for challenging Vanity Fair, in an editorial, to walk their environmental talk