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The Proof Is In The Forest
Dogwood Alliance’s Response to International Paper’s Recent Forest Stewardship Council Certification Announcement
 
Progress in the Forest

Today marks the fourth anniversary of our historic agreement with Bowater to increase protections for our Southern forests...

 
Meet The South's Coolest 8 Year Old

Check out the inspiring story of Cole who is fighting to protect Southern forests...

 
Using Market Forces to Protect Our Coastal Forests

Andrew waxes poetic about our work to leverage change in the marketplace to protect Cole's favorite place...

 
 
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    Let's stop the release of genetically engineered (GE) Trees in Alabama
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What are your thoughts about Fast Food packaging? ...
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Day 2 at Bonnaroo and the support has been amazing...
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Hundreds of signatures, conversations, photos and ...
    Live from Bonnaroo, Day 43
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On the road highlighting the fast food industry's ...
    Coastal Roadshow, day 2--Green Swamp and Whiteville, NC
Live from the Green Swamp--one of the top ten eco...
    Fast Food Roadshow, day 3--Riegelwood and Waccamaw Lake
Another great day on the road, the people of South...
    Fast Food Coastal Roadshow, day 4
Driving up the North Carolina coast it's apparent ...
    Fast Food Roadshow Day 5 - Cypress Swamps and Endangered Pine Barrens
Cypress Swamps and Longleaf Pine Barrens, the Dogw...
    Fast Food Coastal Roadshow--Day 6!
Checking out the Great Dismal Swamp... So much mor...
    Calling all Forest Lovers!
volunteers wanted...
    Fast Food Roadshow Day 7 - The Amazing People of Northeastern NC
What an amazing culmination to a great trip!  Eva ...
    What do you want--a medal?
When I read IP’s press release, I was reminded of...
    Photo Petition Slideshow
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    Yum! Foods ranks low on the eco-totem pole
Recenltly Joel Makowers' green business blog lau...
    Trashy ways = Greenhouse Gases
Interesting article explores the connection betwee...
    Save our Cypress campaign
Check out the cool Save Our Cypress campaign vide...
    Coastal Forests in the South--photo fun
Check out the photos from the presentations and th...
    On the road in Louisville, KY--home to Yum! Brands
We visit Louisville, KY, home of fast food giant...
    Small Packages & Big Impacts
Ideas from big corporations show change is possibl...
    The Music Industry, Profiting from the Green Revolution
How the music industry can join the Green Revoluti...
    Take the Packaging Campaign Survey
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    Excessive Packaging Reaches New Heights
Just when you thought PR geniuses couldn't get les...
    Office Supply Sector makes progress
Don't you wonder who gets the best grade?
    Southern Forest Challenge
Last week-end a small group of people with a passi...
    21 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle
    Check out the Packaging Campaign Survey
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    An inspiring leader passes
This evening I will raise a glass and light a can...
    Teenager on Year Long Fossil Fuel Free Bicycle Birdwatch
While on a recent trip to British Columbia, I met...
    21 September: International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations
Over the last generation, paper companies have rap...
    Green Music Highlight: The Good Life
The Good Life (on Saddle Creek Records) are cutti...
    The View From an Industry Conference
The Packaging Campaign lands at the Sustainable Pa...
    More hypocrisy from International Paper
Oh the irony of International Paper's project to r...
    Echo Project and Dogwood, Atlanta, Georgia
This past weekend we tabled at The Echo Project ou...
    US House Switches to 100% Recycled Paper
Great news on the office copy paper front from ou...
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    Dogwood Alliance featured in the 2008 Patagonia calendar!
Everyone at Dogwood Alliance is enormously proud t...
    Touring Green--from the music campaign front
This month our green crusader Eva Hernandez from ...
    Update from Kentucky
Louisville is home to Yum! Brands, the parent comp...
    An Update From the Focal Area--on the ground
This past week and a half I've had a whirlwind tou...
    Update--Amazing Forests, Abigail in the Focal Area
My next stop was the Zuni Pine Barrens in southeas...
    Update from Abigal, to NC and Green Swamp
Interviews, photos and clearcuts.  The last few da...
    Update from the Focal Area
The drought in the region is allowing some massiv...
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Abigail has met some great people, all who have a ...
    Onwards to 2008
In 2008, the Packaging Campaign is getting bigger...
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Noelle and I have arrived in Wilmington – the Por...
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    Give Us Your Trash!
The packaging campaign is really heating up at the...
    Southern Swamplands Report released across the region
Yesterday on the campus of Old Dominion University...
    Norfolk Chooses Trees Over Trash
What an incredible Kick-Off Meeting we had here in...
    Huge Public Meeting in Wilmington
How do go from being a small team of excited fores...
    The Great Green Swamp Tour
Saturday afternoon, a group of 30 campus and commu...
    Coalitions and Clearcuts
Ruth and I venture to Wilmington...
    Southeastern Students Renewable Energy Conference
Hundreds of students joined forces with community ...
    A Sweet and Simple Thank-You
A Thank you video, check it out.
    Old Growth in Missouri Needs Your Help
Our friends at the Gracey Foundation in Missouri n...
    Fast Food Packaging Media & Outreach Tour--join us!
Dogwood Alliance is kicking off the Fast Food Pac...
    Note From a Virginia Ecologist
These forests are not only economically important ...
    Dogwood Alliance coming back to Decatur, GA in April
Kick off a week of Earth Day celebrations Saturda...
    Forestry Field Day in March
... an invitation to anyone to come and have a tou...
    An inspiring leap forward
Implementation may not be the sexiest work Dogwood...
    New youtube Video on the Fast Food Packaging Campaign
Short and Sweet. A simple story of the Fast Food ...
    A Week on the Road
Southern Exposure Tour, week 1...
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Update from the Lousiville Press Conference at KFC...
    From Atlanta's Big Chicken
A visit to Atlanta’s famous KFC “Big Chicken” hel...
    Green Music Marketing 101
10 easy things musicians can do to go green to cel...
    Dogwood Kicks off New Campaign and Website
Check out the new campaign website: www.nofreerefi...
    Great music, beautiful land, fine friends, good causes
The Fare Thee Well Foundation is proud to announc...
    Earth Day Action with the Francine Delany
Elementary School kids make cards out of packaging...
    Green Music Interview wtih CloudCult
Eva Hernandez of Dogwood Alliance speaks with Clou...
    Inspiring Words from the IP Shareholders Meeting
“Change is painful but the failure to change is th...
    From Our Friends at Gulf Restoration Network
GRN is a great organization working to protect the...
    Tennessee forest protector honored. Bravo!
John Noel is a person who deserves a personal than...
    It's Endangered Species Day!
Check out the new Endangered Species Day video...
    Happy World Turtle Day!
One of the oldest reptiles in the world...
    Call for GE Trees Ban
UN called on for Genetically Engineered Tree Ban
    G8 Environment Ministers’ Meeting in Kobe
An update from Dogwood summer intern, Yishan...
    Trash is a Big Climate Problem, New Study Finds
New report links trash problem and climate change
    Packaging Video Contest
Check out the Arby's video contest... funny video
    Trees in a Ton
“How many trees are required for just one ton of p...
    Dogwood Intern does grassroots organizing!
This is how you make a difference - talking to peo...
    Drop Off This Letter at a Fast Food Junky Near You!
The "11 Fast Food Junkies"
    Shrink! The Madness of Paper Consumption
New campaign launched to help slow paper consumpti...
    Bonnnaroo 2008 Update
Bonnaroo helped us save Southern forests!
    Packaging Man Game Launch!
Join us in Asheville for the game-launch party
    Step 10: Support Dogwood!
..from 50 simple things
    Musique Automatique--the Green Side of Things
    Dogwood Team Takes on Arbys
Team Extraordinaire Saves the Day...
    "Pac" Man returns!
This time to save Southern forests...
    Spring Brings Change to the Mountains
Update from Dogwood Alliance...
    Trash Monster Goes to Trinumeral
“Dressing” Trash Monster and collecting signature...
    McDonald's postcard!
Download it. Sign it. Check it.
    McDonald's--"I'm loggin it!"
Leaders or Laggards...
    Back from the SEE Expo
Forests for fuel...?
    The Secret Life of Paper
A look start to finish...
    From Forest to Clearcut
Through VA and NC
    McDonalds Opinion Piece
McDonald's can lead...
    Update from Wendys HQ
Sarah gives up the scoop
    International Paper around the Globe
Interesting fact! By Katie Speights.
    Save our Venus Fly Trap
Why this plant is so unique!
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    Overwhelming Opposition to GE Papaya
People say "No" to commerical production of GE Tre...
    Recycling is Better for the Economy
It's a fact.
    CEO has Turkey With a Side of Consumer Activism
This holiday season, the Dogwood Alliance is than...
    Even in a soft economy people care about green
Our strategy is working friends!
    Fast Food Giant Yum! Releases Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Fails to address impacts of paper packaging on for...
    Your Very Special Gift for the Fast Food Junkies
An edgy online action...
    Make Your Own Fast Food Billboard!
Send a message to the Fast Food Junkies...
    Highlights from 2008
2008--Our Best Year Yet!
    New Clearcuts? Dogwood Responds With New Efforts
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    Business as usual forestry
See where paper packaging comes from...
    Whooping cranes settle on Carolinas coast
Four of the rare birds, once almost extinct...
    World Wetlands Day
Why should you care about wetlands?
    3rd Annual Green Fest in downtown Decatur, May 2 2009 benefits Dogwood Alliance
It’s not too early to mark your calendar
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We can all relate to Laura's packaging woes...
    Survey Results
A few highlights...
    The Times They Are a Changin'
Changes in the world and changes at Dogwood Allian...
    Fast Food: We Do Forest Destruction Right
Check out our newest video...
    It all adds up...
Yes, even those receipts.
    Paper Industry Attempting to Rip Off Tax Payers for Billions
Paper companies, led by International Paper, have...
    Happy Earth Day!!!
What do you think about Fast Food Companies buying...
    Join Dogwood Alliance at Decatur Green Fest
Hope to see y'all in Decatur on Saturday!
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Our friends at Heartwood are hosting a gathering i...
    Sony Packaging Takes on a Green Sheen
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    Meet The South's Coolest 8 Year Old
Check out the inspiring story of Cole who is figh...
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Dogwood Alliance’s Response to International Paper...
    Using Market Forces to Protect Our Coastal Forests
Andrew waxes poetic about our work to leverage ch...
    Progress in the Forest
Today marks the fourth anniversary of our histori...
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Ad in USA Today Gives The Green Skinny On Office Supply Companies...

 

These days when every major corporation claims to be environmentally responsible, with office supply companies we can tell you who’s really green and who is just greenwashing.

 

Check out the ad , press release and new Green Grades Report