Take Action -- Paper Purchasing

ForestEthics has published Green Grades 2009: A Report Card on the Paper Practices of the Office Supply Sector. Download the full report, or just the pocket guide, and be prepared to purchase paper in line with your values of sustainability.

Take the EcoChallenge

Reduce your impact on the Earth, and raise money for a good cause, all at the same time! What could be better than that?

For two weeks, October 1-15, 2009, the Northwest Earth Institute will be conducting the EcoChallenge. Pledge to take one of five challenges (or create your own):

• Save Water,
  
• Reduce Electricity Use,
  
• Make Sustainable Food Choices,
  
• Use Alternative Transportation, or
  
• Reduce and Divert Trash

Then get your friends and family to pledge money (hopefully totalling $500 per EcoChallenger) if you accomplish the challenge. All money raised goes to support Northwest Earth Institute programs.

(Disclosure: IWCS uses NWEI materials for our workshops.)

Take Action

Sears/Lands End sends millions of catalogues a year, using almost no post-consumer recycled paper. ForestEthics has launched a campaign to change that. Read more here, and send an email to the CEO of Sears.