:: The Bitch Girls ::

:: Thursday, November 14, 2002 ::

I <3 Environmentalists and so should you Sometimes people wonder why environmental watch groups and public interest groups (USPIRG's, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Environmental Defense, Rainforest Action Network...) are vital in ensuring the protection of our health and environment in this wonderful country. Here are is a prime example. Today, thanks to Christine Whittman (head of the EPA) we are forced to rely on these watch groups, working on minute budgets and limited professional resources, to enforce policies that our own Government creates!!! What is this world coming to? Our government is no longer enviornmentaly responsible!! Arg! It's a good thing I plan on working for Environmental Defense...don't fuck a with tha environment...no body fucks a with tha environment...the EPA should pay for me to go through Law School...because aparently they don't have any decient ones working for them right now! click me for a good time

Staples Announces Historic Commitment to Endangered Forests and Recycled Paper!

Following a two-year campaign targeting Staples, the world's largest office supply store, the company today announced a commitment to phase out paper products originating from endangered forests and dramatically increase its sale of recycled paper products. Activists across the country are celebrating a grassroots victory! Thanks to each of you that helped make this victory possible!

Under Staples new guidelines, an industry-first, the company will:
·Phase out purchases of paper products from endangered forests,
including key forests in the Southern US, U.S. National Forests, and the world's last remaining ancient forests such as the Boreal forests of Canada
·Achieve an average of 30% post consumer recycled content across all paper products
·Report annually to the public on its progress toward reaching these goals
·Aggressively market and promote recycled paper products both in-store and through ads and coupons
·Create an environmental affairs division headed by a senior
executive reporting to Staples CEO

The Staples Campaign has been a huge grassroots campaign challenging corporate power and demanding accountability for the environmental impact of products sold by this office supply giant. The campaign has included over 600 demonstrations, nearly 35 banners dropped on storefronts, 21 arrests in acts of civil disobedience, creative street theater, over 15,000 postcards, thousands of phone calls to the corporate headquarters and regional offices, hundreds of letters from concerned citizens, 75 children's drawings, coverage in more than 10 national media outlets and over 50 local media outlets, a shareholder's resolution, and flying the CEO over clearcuts on
the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. The coalition of groups working on
this campaign has involved dozens of local, regional and national groups and thousands of individuals. Today's announcement is testament to the power of thousands of people joining together against a single corporation to demand environmental change.

The announcement comes a day before the 5th National Day of Action targeting Staples. Instead, we're encouraging people to make Wednesday a day of celebration for the forests- take a hike, contact the press, and celebrate our collective success!

We are now looking to Staples' major competitors, including Office Depot, Office Max, and Corporate Express to follow Staples lead and make a commitment to endangered forests and recycled paper products.

The groups who have been involved in the paper campaign targeting Staples include Dogwood Alliance, ForestEthics, American Lands Alliance, Allegheny Defense Project, Cascadia Forest Alliance, Center for a New American Dream, groups of Earth First!, Ecopledge.com, Green Corps, Kentucky Heartwood, Sierra Student Coalition, Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project, Free the Planet, Heartwood, Native Forest Network, National Forest Protection Alliance, Rainforest Action Network, Rainforest Relief, ReThink Paper, Student Environmental Action Coalition, Wild Alabama, Iowa STEP, Shenendoah Ecosystem Defense Group, GrassRoots Recycling Network, Indiana Forest Alliance and many other local groups.

click here: www.dogwoodalliance.org/release_4.htm

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