ForestEthics

ForestEthics a nonprofit environmental organization that was founded in 2000 to campaign to protect Endangered Forests. It has staff in Canada, the United States and Chile. Cofounders include Tzeporah Berman ...

ForestEthics is a member of the Business Ethics Network and profiled in the WiserEarth database at:


 * Executive Director - Todd Paglia

Do Not Mail list campaign
ForestEthics works to minimize the environmental damage caused by the direct mail and catalog-mailing industries. ForestEthics claims that each year junk mail production in the U.S. consumes more than 96.7 billion gallons of water, more than 100 million trees, and that the annual greenhouse-gas emissions from the production of junk mail are equal to those of 3.5 million cars. According to the U.S. Postal Service, the number of pieces of advertising mail (also known as "standard mail") sent annually has risen from 90.5 billion pieces in 2003 to 103.5 billion pieces in 2007.

To decrease the impact of junk mail on the environment, on March 11, 2008 ForestEthics began promoting the institution of a national "Do Not Mail" list, which would be similar to the national "Do Not Call" list that already exists for telemarketers. The proposed Do Not Mail list would exempt nonprofit and political mail. ForestEthics asks Americans to sign a petition available at www.doNotMail.org demanding a national mailing registry that will give citizens control over the unsolicited coupons, credit cards, catalogs and advertisements that fill their mailboxes on a daily basis.


 * Executive Director (2003), Todd Paglia

Directors
Accessed September 2009:


 * Marika Holmgren (Acting President)
 * Neal Gorenflo (Secretary)
 * Michael Klein (Treasurer)
 * Jim Clay
 * Andy Leebron-Clay
 * Kevin Johnson
 * Stuart Sender
 * Mark Westlund
 * Angel Kyoto Williams
 * Michael Uehara
 * Nadine Weil

Directors (2003)
Accessed December 2008:


 * Mark Westland, President
 * Neal Gorenflo, Secretary
 * Stephen Fowler
 * Marika Holmgren
 * Michael Klein

Contact Information
San Francisco One Haight Street, Suite B San Francisco, California 94102 Phone: 415-863-4563

Vancouver 850 West Hastings, Suite 604 Vancouver, BC V6C 1E1 Phone: 604-331-6201

Toronto 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 425 Toronto, ON M5T 2C7 Phone: 416-597-1904

Washington DC 1413 K Street NW, 5th Floor Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202-408-1561

Website: http://www.forestethics.org/

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Merran Smith
 * Canadian Boreal Initiative
 * Liz Butler - former organizing director
 * Hidden Leaf Foundation