The Indonesian province of Riau has pledged to halt the destruction of its forests and peatlands; a move that will prevent billions of tonnes of carbon from entering the atmosphere.
This week, the English language edition of the new J.K. Rowling book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, hits the bookstores. Greenpeace is commending the Canadian and German publishers for printing the book on ancient-forest-friendly paper. Greenpeace is now calling on other Harry Potter publishers, including Scholastic, which publishes the Harry Potter books in the United States, to move in a similar direction.
Environmental activists are now barricading themselves to the entrance of Kimberly-Clark’s area office and have deployed a 30 x 20-foot-banner that reads: "Kleenex: Wiping Away Ancient Forests." The activists are part of an international campaign to force Kimberly-Clark to stop purchasing pulp from destructive logging operations in Canada’s Boreal Forest and to increase its use of recycled materials for its disposable products such as Kleenex and Cottonelle. The office complex is located at 520 W. Summit Hill Dr.
Environmental activists are currently reading a damning report about forest destruction in Canada’s Boreal Forest to Kimberley-Clark employees at their area office. The activists, who are floating in a boat in a lake at the center of the Kleenex-makers office complex and using a bullhorn to make sure they are heard, are part of an international campaign to force Kimberly-Clark to stop purchasing pulp from destructive logging operations and to increase its use of recycled materials for its disposable products such as Kleenex and Cottonelle.
As world leaders meet in Scotland to discuss issues such as global warming, Greenpeace, Center for Biological Diversity and National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed a petition today with the Department of Interior calling for further protection of the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. At the same time, Greenpeace sent a message directly to world leaders from Greenland, where its ship the Arctic Sunrise is documenting global warming evidence with a charcoal drawing of a U.S. flag, a polar bear and the words "Save Me" on an ice floe. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment has projected the polar bear could be extinct by the end of the century due to global warming.
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