A March Madness NCAA tournament round at the YUM! Brands Arena (named after KFC’s parent company) proved the perfect venue to call attention to the company’s support of destructive forestry practices. On March 17th,Dogwood fielded a 7-man parody team, The KFC Forest Destroyers, outside the arena. Read More»
Turning up the Springtime Heat on KFC
March 30th, 2012 by Amanda Rodriguez
New Report: Greening Fast Food Packaging
February 23rd, 2012 by Scot QuarandaOur new report, “Greening Fast Food Packaging: A Road Map to Best Practices,” highlights the key environmental attributes of fast food packaging and provides a simple path forward to more sustainable packaging. In addition to highlighting companies that have exerted leadership on these key issues, it includes an easy to use survey for fast food chains and individual restaurants to assess their packaging. Read More»
Making a difference
January 15th, 2007 by 
If companies in just the medicine and cosmetics cartons sector |
Leadership by Example
January 2nd, 2007 byThere is a rising international movement challenging the status quo that is devoted to responsible and sustainable packaging. And the thinking behind this initiative is reaching the marketplace. Waste reduction, smart design, recycled content, responsibly sourced paper fiber and even rethinking the need for packaging altogether; these are the ideas behind the very real efforts by Corporate America to fix its packaging problem. Please read more for information on these corporate leaders and click here for other sustainable packaging initiatives.
International Paper’s Southern Presence
January 2nd, 2007 by
The impact of the business as usual production of paper packaging at these mills on the rich, diverse forests of the American South is serious. In the last 50 years, the acreage dedicated to pine plantations has gone from virtually zero to about 32 million acres. The South, once a vast landscape of the most bio-diverse temperate forests in the world, now is home to 32 million acres of sterile pine plantations interspersed throughout this precious ecosystem. Because millions of years ago the glaciers did not make it this far South, we have some of the highest concentration of tree species anywhere in the world—which attracts a high number of plant and animal species in the native Southern forests landscape. When natural forests are converted to monoculture pine plantations, we loose that abundance and biodiversity that make the Southern U.S. a hotspot for species diversity and cultural heritage.
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