Staples, Conservation Groups, Wood Products Companies and Landowners Join to Protect Forests and Combat Climate Change

Diverse Stakeholders Work to Build Credibility Within US Forest Carbon Market

Will Create Incentives to Protect, Restore and Conserve Forests While Providing Sources of Paper and Wood Products from Forests Managed to a High Environmental Standard

In 2004, organizations struggling against the expansion of large-scale tree plantations declared 21 September as International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations. Since then, organizations throughout the world carry out actions on this date to raise awareness about this issue. This year, a group of people from several organizations have launched an international declaration calling for a halt to the further expansion of plantations. The declaration has been signed on by 8,429 people from 85 countries.

FedEx Office & Office Depot Earn Top Marks on Paper; Amazon.com & PaperlinX Receive F’s in 3rd Annual Green Grades Report Card             

Office Supply Sector Making Strides Toward FSC, Away from World’s Most Destructive Paper Companies

Public Overwhelmingly Rejects Genetically Engineered Trees

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.