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Jun 13, 2007
Focus: Environment
Action Request: Visit - in person
Location: New York, United States
Protest J. Crew for Forest Destruction:
J. Crew Cuts Down Boreal Forests for Catalogs!

Protest J. Crew during the Direct Marketing Association Conference: the industry convention for catalog producers.  Let's make an example of this company until the commit to stop destroying forests for throwaway catalogs!

Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Location: J. Crew, 347 Madison Avenue between 44th and 45th Street, Manhattan

Time: 11:30 AM

For more info:
Phone: (347) 293-2217
Email: activism@wetlands-preserve.org

Sponsored by Wetlands Activism Collective and ForestEthics
www.wetlands-preserve.org * www.forestethics.org

ABOUT THE BOREAL FOREST:

An area the size of Manhattan is destroyed every five days as a result of logging for products like lumber, toilet paper­and J. Crew catalogs.  If you care about clean air and water, you care about the Boreal Forest. Stretching from Alaska clear across Canada to the Atlantic Ocean, the Boreal is an astonishing wilderness, one of the largest intact ecosystems in the world. It holds more freshwater than anywhere else on the planet, and plays an essential role in cleaning the air that we breathe and in fighting climate change. It is also habitat to rare species of wolves, bears, and woodland caribou, as well as half of North America's songbirds.  Currently, less than 8% of the Boreal is protected. It is being logged at a rate of two acres a minute, 24 hours a day, much of it to make things like catalogs, junk mail, magazines, newspapers and toilet paper.
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