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Montreal, November 12, 2007 – It was a surprise! Like most Metro
newspapers around the world, the Montreal Métro
edition was all in green today. The idea was to underline
the paper’s commitment to being green, and the start
of the IPCC meeting (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore this year)
at Valencia, in Spain.
Today, in Métro, you can read:
- an article written by Al Gore exclusively for Métro
- Steven Guilbeault’s column, which appears every Monday
- a wide range of practical environmental advice from around
the world. With this, Métro wishes to express its humble
opinion that treaties and political summits are necessary,
but that we must each do our part as well. For example, if
every Metro reader around the world (of which there
are 20 million) used a clothesline instead of a clothes dryer
for a week to dry their clothes, the world would save 350
GWh of electricity, more than half the total amount consumed
by Paris in one week.
- an interview with Montrealer Réal Migneault, an environmentalist
before it became an issue
- how to have an eco-responsible Christmas
“Metro is the only private company in Canada today
that subsidizes a reycling program within a public transit
network,” said Daniel Barbeau, publisher.
Since it was founded, Métro has installed
220 recycling bins throughout the Montreal Transit Commission
subway system. It recovered more than 600 tonnes of paper
in 2006 (equal to 10,000 trees). Métro donates
20% of the funds received from recycling paper to the Literacy
Foundation.
“I am proud to be the publisher of a green and environmentally
responsible daily paper and we will continue to act on that
commitment in 2008,” said Daniel Barbeau.
The Métro daily paper is a joint venture published
by Transcontinental and Gesca. It is one of 72 local editions
of Métro International, which reaches over 37 million
people in 21 countries every week. Be like Métro: think
globally and print only what you need.
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Information: Laure Barnouin, 514-286-1066, extension 2265
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