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How do go from being a small team of excited forest
crusaders steadily gathering one pledge after the next to...
being a huge team of committed activists working
with stealth, precision, and mass impact garnering the support of thousands
here in Wilmington?
The answer, as we proved it this week here in Wilmington was to kick it
up a notch with a kick-butt Kick Off Meeting! (Bruce Lee would be proud of us
and all our kicks, wouldn’t he?)
On Wednesday night, over 55 people crowded into our meeting,
bringing with them a whole host of awesome ideas for how we can really amp up
the pressure on Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut to quit using our amazing forests
in North Carolina for their disposable packaging. To think – these companies
are currently sitting comfortably and content with the destruction they’re
causing in our communities just to make more trash for their fast food!
Not for long, though, eh? Though they might think they’re
safe in their ivory tower of paper-packaging madness, they’re soon to hear from
us.
Coming out of our Grassroots Pressure (aka – gROOTS!),
Community Outreach, and Media Visibility teams will be a whole chorus of
support for sustainable forestry, sane reductions in packaging, and the
no-brainer switch to post-consumer recycled content.
Check out the photos too – I think you can even see someone
doing a roundhouse kick in the back of the room!  
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. Hopefully, it'll appear tomorrow in print. The last sentence has to be a joke: "...International Paper upholds ecological cultivation standards, said Bob Stegemann, the company's director of sustainability strategies. For instance, it requires tree plantations to practice reforestation instead of stripping the land bare..."
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