Sony Blu-Rays (and DVDs) Take on a Green Sheen

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Launches Green Packaging Initiative; Southern Forests Get Some Relief

Starting today with the Blu-ray release of Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is launching a major initiative to green its Blu-ray and dvd packaging for all future titles. Combining a lot less plastic and more use of recycled paper, Sony joins Warner in setting the bar for all home entertainment companies.

Environmental Coalition Debunks “Carbon Neutral Paper”
Facts and Fiction of Carbon Neutral Paper Products Are Revealed in New Report

For Immediate Release: February 18, 2009
Contact: Joshua Martin, EPN, 828-251-8558 or 828-242-4238, joshua@environmentalpaper.org

What’s in Your Paper?
Environmental Coalition Announces New Website for Paper Purchasers - WhatsInYourPaper.com

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