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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 11:47 PM
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Denison students protest Sears' paper policy (OH)
By TIFFANY EDWARDS
Advocate Reporter

GRANVILLE — Local and international environmental activists are launching a public awareness campaign against Sears, America’s oldest catalog producer, for paper policies they deem irresponsible.

A roughly six-foot, cardboard miniature of the Sears Tower stood on the campus of Denison University yesterday, covered in pages from Sears Holding Corporation’s catalogs. On a Lands’ End advertisement, a boy holds a planet, and on another a woman and a teenaged girl enjoy a sunny day on a ranch.

Yet, the process of creating these ads is unduly destroying the natural world they portray, according to ForestEthics, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group.

On Tuesday, Denison University’s one-year-old student group, the Animal Liberation League, joined ForestEthics in announcing that they would engage in a public awareness campaign to pressure Sears Holding Corporation, which also owns Lands’ End, to implement environmentally friendly paper practices ...

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070925/UPDATES01/70925028/1002/
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Tian Zhuangzhuang Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 11:34 PM
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1. Hit the two biigest offenders
The yellow pages and newspapers. Sears is small fry compared to those two.
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