New Society Publishers Sustainability Profile

What do our labels mean?

New Society Publishers presents itself as a publisher committed to building an ecologically sustainable and just society through education and action. Its sustainability practices include printing books on 100% post-consumer recycled paper with low-VOC vegetable-based inks, offering a guide to responsible digital reading, and maintaining a carbon neutral program. The company says it has been a Certified B Corporation since 2016, is a signatory to the SDG Publishers Compact, and has an employee shareholder agreement making it one-third employee-owned. It also states that it prints books primarily in North America and has published books and resources focused on climate change, low-carbon building, and sustainability.

About New Society Publishers

Status
Unverified

Website
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Employees
5 - 25

Country
Canada

New Society Publishers Sustainability Actions

Printed on recycled paper

Our books are printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, processed chlorine-free, with low-VOC vegetable-based inks (since 2002). In summer of 2001, New Society committed to publishing forthcoming titles on acid-free paper that is Forest Stewardship Council certified, 100% old growth forest-free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free, and printed with vegetable-based, low-VOC inks.

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Carbon neutral since 2005

In 2005, New Society took its commitment to the environment up another notch by becoming the first North American publishing company to become carbon neutral. Its first step is to reduce direct emissions as much as possible, including by curtailing shipping and travel, and then each year it purchases carbon offsets for emissions it cannot avoid.

B Corporation certification

New Society Publishers became a Certified B Corporation™ in June 2016. With this certification, it receives recognition for existing social and environmental performance standards and becomes part of a community striving to do even more.

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Employee shareholder agreement

Its corporate structure is an innovative employee shareholder agreement, so it is one-third employee-owned (since 2015).

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Statement of ethics

In 2021, New Society Publishers created a statement of ethics.

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New Society Publishers Sustainability Commitments

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SDG Publishers Compact

We’re Signatories to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Publishers Compact (2020-2030, the Decade of Action).

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Net Zero 2030 commitment

We are signatories to the Net Zero 2030 SME Climate Commitment.

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Halve emissions before 2030

In 2021, New Society Publishers joined the United Nations Race to Zero Campaign by making the SME Climate Commitment. This is a Science-Based Targets Initiative with the following aims: Halve our greenhouse gas emissions before 2030.