http://www.forestethics.org/ long http://www.forestethics.org//downloads/SearsReport_Final.pdf Sears is one of America's most successful, iconic brands--but the value of that brand is eroding. As a key step in realigning public perception and restoring the company's reputation, we propose taking action on an issue that is high on the list of consumer concerns: environmental responsibility. 2008-05-05 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2144 As shareholders meet to assess Sears Holdings Corporation’s uncertain future, a new report outlines the unsustainable logging practices by Sears paper suppliers which have threatened Canada’s vulnerable caribou populations. 2008-05-05 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2145 An Ontario activist with ForestEthics today urged Sears’ shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting in Chicago to ensure Sears stops sourcing the paper it uses for its catalogues – upwards of 500 million sent annually across North America – from threatened caribou habitat in Ontario’s Boreal Forest. 2008-05-05 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2146 A recent blog about the pro-junk mail lobby and its front group Mail Moves America, a coalition of businesses that oppose efforts to create a legislated "Do Not Mail" list to protect citizens from being showered with unwanted junk mail, drew many comments. 2008-05-05 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2142 Spotted owls, silted streams, raging wildfires - there has been no shortage of fuel for the timber wars over the decades. Add climate change to the mix. 2008-05-04 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2141 Two competing forest studies have put Sierra Pacific Industries' forest management practices at the heart of a heated debate about global warming. 2008-05-02 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2139 As the dead duck story ricocheted around the world Wednesday, Premier Ed Stelmach said Alberta is engaged in a David-and-Goliath battle to defend the province against misinformation from environmental groups. 2008-05-01 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2140 Ontario is on the cusp of helping oil-sands emissions explode. Shell Canada wants permits to be granted by the end of this year for a new refinery in Sarnia to process oil from its oil-sands mines in Alberta for use in gas tanks across the GTA. 2008-05-01 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2138 The Ontario government has promised to protect large areas of the Boreal Forest for woodland caribou habitat. Yet the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, appointed as an independent auditor of the government’s environmental performance, harshly criticized the failure to protect caribou in his 2006-2007 annual report, “Reconciling Our Priorities.” 2008-05-01 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2134 Six environmental organizations took out a full-page ad this week in Roll Call, the newspaper of record on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. 2008-04-28 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2135 Canada: not just mounties and ice hockey anymore 2008-04-28 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2133 In the eyes of the provincial government, the massive projects will unlock a secure and environmentally sustainable source of energy for Canada and the world. In the words of environmental activists, they are among the most destructive developments on the planet. 2008-04-27 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2132 Conservationists will be rolling out an advertising campaign and dispatching polar-bear-suit-clad protesters this week in an attempt to derail Alberta's mission to Washington that is aimed at propping up the province's environmental image south of the border. 2008-04-27 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2130 When estate lawyer Merwyn Miller decided to go “paperless” in 2002, he wasn't trying to save the rain forests or make some other environmental statement. 2008-04-20 http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?id=2129 Taking environmental protest against timber clear-cutting to a new level, ForestEthics, a San Francisco-based conservation group, released a report last week showing how Sierra Pacific Industries has contributed to global warming. 2008-04-18