Dogwood Alliance Delivers Up Sustainability at the YUM/KFC Shareholder’s Meeting. Environmental Group Calls on Company to Stop Stonewalling and Start Protecting Southern Forests and Communities; CEO Advises Dogwood Alliance to Meet with Chief Sustainability Officer.
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International Paper’s New Voluntary Sustainability Goals Fall Woefully Short of Real Leadership;
Commitment to Improving Footprint in World’s Forests is Vague and Inconsequential
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Photos, videos, and a written account of Dogwood Alliance delivering up sustainability and Southern forest protection at the YUM/KFC shareholder meeting in Louisville, KY on May 17, 2012…
On April 28th, the Arbor Day Foundation awarded Dominion Power’s Project Plant It! one of its 2012 Arbor Day Awards. The irony here of course is that while Dominion is planting trees and reportedly “sparking a love of trees in children,” the company is gearing up for the wholesale burning of forests for electricity…
North Carolina based forest protection organization, Dogwood Alliance, was denied entry this morning to the Sustainable Operations Summit even though the group had been invited to attend by the conference organizers. It was soon discovered that the refusal of admittance came as a result of a request from Yum!Brands/KFC, whose Chief Sustainability Officer, Roger McClendon, is speaking on a panel at today’s conference.
