Raleigh, NC " This morning at the Biomass South 2008 conference in Raleigh, NC, Southern forest protection organization, Dogwood Alliance, released, “Don’t Log the Forests for the Fuel: A Position Paper on the Potential Environmental and Economic Impacts of the Cellulosic Ethanol Industry in the Southern United States,” exposing the false environmental and economic benefits of tree-based biofuels.

PulpWatch.org Exposes the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in the Pulp and Paper Industry

ASHEVILLE " A new website launched by an international coalition of NGOs brings together GoogleMaps technology, environmental risks and manufacturing data on pulp and paper mills to reveal their practices and rate their performance on social and environmental criteria. The website will be a tool for paper purchasers to find information easily on how a pulp mill is performing and identify social and environmental risks associated with those operations, no matter where they are in the world.

Southern Environmental Organization Releases Packaging Man Video Game; New Environmental Twist on the Classic Video Game

STOP THE MADNESS OF WASTEFUL PAPER CONSUMPTION " MAKE A ‘SHRINK’ PLEDGE

A network of more than 50 European environmental non-governmental organisations today launches “Shrink”, a joint project addressing the madness of over-consumption of paper. Individuals as well as corporate and institutional paper users are invited to pledge to cut their paper consumption, on the new website www.shrinkpaper.org .

Dogwood Alliance strongly supports the findings of this report as an important solution to the climate crisis. As an organization working to protect the forests of the Southern US, we continue to seek positive solutions for our forests and for the climate and following some of the simple steps set forth in this report will help us achieve that goal. In addition to recommendations on zero waste strategies, incinerator bans and extended producer responsibility, as part of our work to solve the packaging problem, we strongly support the following recommendation:

Press Release from Global Justice Ecology Project and the STOP GE Trees Campaign:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 31 MAY 2008

UN CBD Fails to Protect Forests from Genetically Engineered Trees

For Immediate Release: March 31, 2008
Contact: Scot Quaranda, Dogwood Alliance, 828.242.3596 (cell)

No Free Refills!
Dogwood Alliance Launches National Campaign Targeting Fast Food Packaging; Group Releases Report and Calls on Top 11 Worst Offenders to Use Less, Recycle More and Stop Using Paper from Endangered Southern Forests; List Included Louisville’s Own Yum! Brands

For Immediate Release: March 31, 2008
Contacts: William Craven, cell 415-407-3426; Andrew Goldberg, cell 828-251-2525 x19

Office Supply Industry’s Environmental Progress"and Problems"
Cited by Environmental Groups

As NY Paper Week continues, USA Today Ad and Scorecard Reveal Leaders and Laggards

International Paper’s Purchase of Weyerhaeuser Packaging Mills Amplifies Need For Company to Reform Forestry Practices in the Southern US and Around the World

For Immediate Release: February 29. 2008
Contact: Scot Quaranda, Dogwood Alliance, 828.251.2525 x18

A Leap Forward "Environmental Organizations Help Paper Company Become Better Steward of Southern Forests

AbitibiBowater Leaps Ahead of Competitors on Southern Forest Conservation; International Paper Lags Further Behind