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Brits Recycle a Canadian Idea
Posted by Charles Demers on January 19th, 2007
After years of monarchist Upper Canada bluebloods doing their whole derivative British thing, it?s nice to see some Brits recycling Canadian ideas ? in this case, recycling. The UK?s Independent recently ran a laudatory piece about Canada (and specifically B.C.?s Raincoast Books) setting the example for ?green publishing? ? printing books on recycled paper.
?It is the country that gave the literary world Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields. Now it is at the vanguard of green publishing.? Pretty nice. Nicer still ? if we stick to the conventional wisdom that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery ? is the news that UK writers are following suit, including big names like ?Helen Fielding, Philip Pullman and Ian Rankin? who ?have signed up? to the effort."
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