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In Other Worlds

Protecting our Endangered Forests With Innovation in Paper Making

“Human beings require oxygen and forests produce it; printed books require paper but paper need not be made from virgin forests.”

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood and Canopy are piloting a new highly advanced species of paper with galactic potential for business and communities, and superhuman capacity to protect endangered forests.

Second Harvest Paper is made without any harm to fragile forest ecosystems. It contains only straw left over from the grain harvest, and recycled paper. It is the next step forward in Canopy’s campaign to reduce the stress of paper production on our endangered forests.

Canopy Presents...

A Limited Special Edition of Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds

First Book Ever on Straw Paper in North America!

Canopy’s limited special edition of Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds is printed exclusively on Second Harvest Paper. It is the first of it’s kind! And with it these two titans of futuristic thinking and innovation begin countdown to the launch a whole new resource sector for North America.

There is enough leftover straw in North America to meet a starry array of our paper needs – from books, to magazines, to toilet paper, and bank statements. Enough to keep four Second Harvest mills in operation. Enough to save up to 800-million trees, so forests can continue providing precious habitat and stabilizing our climate.

Second Harvest Paper is the dawn of new revenues for farmers, new green jobs for communities, and new options for diversifying North America’s paper fibre basket. The special edition of In Other Worlds shows that this is all possible in our own world right now if government and industry follow Canopy’s lead to launch this new resource sector into orbit.

Canopy would like to thank our visionary teammates for the In Other Worlds mission, McClelland & Stewart, Cascades Fine Papers, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures, and Friesens… and of course, the intrepid Margaret Atwood.