Forest Ethics and its Catalog Cutdown Campaign Releases Annual Naughty and Nice List
Forest Ethics and its Catalog Cutdown campaign have released its annual Naughty
and Nice list, which grades catalog senders on environmental paper practices.
The group also continued its campaign against Sears
by staging protests at more than 70 Sears stores across North
America. The protesters dressed as reindeer and delivered lumps of
coal in response to what Forest Ethics calls “Sears’ refusal to abandon the
outdated and destructive paper policies of the past.”
The group says that activists sang “I saw Sears Cut Trees for Catalogs” (to the
tune of “I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus”), and unveiled a banner reading
“Sears has been Naughty to the Environment.”
In its Naughty and Nice list, 21 companies were evaluated according to four
criteria: whether or not endangered forests are cut to produce the company’s
catalogs; whether the company uses Forest Stewardship Council Certified paper;
the amount of post-consumer recycled content in the company’s catalogs; and the
extent of the company’s efforts to reduce overall paper consumption.
Patagonia, Williams-Sonoma, Dell, Timberland,
Crate & Barrel, REI, L.L. Bean, and J. Crew ended up on the nice list. JC
Penney, Macy’s/Bloomingdales, and PC Mall made the checking twice list. Neiman
Marcus, Talbots/J. Jill, OfficeMax, Lands’ End, Eddie Bauer, School Specialty,
Sharper Image, Spiegel, and Sears follow up on the naughty list.
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