At the third-annual Paper Futures Forum in Toronto, Canopy presented Jean Denault, VP, Procurement and Technology, of Transcontinental Inc., and Joel Silver, Chief Merchant Officer of Indigo Books & Music Inc., with The Order of the Forest awards.
Since 2003, Canopy, formerly known as Markets Initiative, has presented The Order of the Forest – the NGO’s take on The Order of Canada – to environmentally progressive leaders active within the printing and publishing industries. While early recognition went primarily to Big Name Canadian authors, such as Margaret Atwood, Austin Clarke, Barbara Gowdy and the late Pierre Berton, more print-specific leaders are now emerging for recognition.
Earlier in 2009, Krista Nicholds, co-President of Dollco Printing, and Kim Latreille, Group Production Director of St. Joseph Media, also received The Order of the Forest recognition. Denault has led much of Transcontinental’s environmental stance, which most recently added groundbreaking Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) status for its Freemont plant in California – opened in mid-2009 to print The San Francisco Chronicle.
The Order of the Forest recipients
2009 Jean Denault, VP, Procurement and Technology, Transcontinental Inc. Joel Silver, Chief Merchant Officer, Indigo Books Kim Latreille, Group Production Director, St. Joseph Media Krista Nicholds, Co-President and Owner, Dollco Printing Tuppy Blair, President, CMC Michael Hollett, Publisher, Now magazine Yves Beauchemin, author
2008 Rick Boychuk, Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Geographic
2007 Ken Alexander, Editor, The Walrus Sharon Coates, Production Manager, The Walrus Mark Patenaude, GM, St. Joseph Print J.K. Rowling, author Christopher Little, author Les Intouchables, publishing house Écosociété, publishing house
2006 Jodi Brooks, Production Manager, explore and Cottage Life Maria Mendes, Manager of Print Production, Transcontinental Media Christian Dogimont, Publisher, HoBO Multi-Mondes, Québec City publishing house Louis Hamelin, author
2005 Alice Munro, author Alma Lee, author Al Zikovitz, Publisher of explore Peter Ter Weeme, VP Marketing, Mountain Equipment Co-op Alison Jones, Publisher, Quill & Quire Lynn O'Hearn, Sales, St. Joseph Print Gallimard Limitée, publishing house
2004 Margaret Atwood, author Alan McDougall, Raincoast Books Geoffrey Taylor, International Festival of Authors John Thomson, Publisher, Canadian Geographic
2003 Austin Clarke, author Timothy Findlay, author Pierre Berton, author Barbara Gowdy, author
At the third-annual Paper Futures Forum in Toronto, Canopy presented Jean Denault, VP, Procurement and Technology, of Transcontinental Inc., and Joel Silver, Chief Merchant Officer of Indigo Books & Music Inc., with The Order of the Forest awards.