Earlier this month, Dogwood Alliance was scheduled to meet with executives at KFC to discuss the company’s paper packaging and how they could end the destruction of endangered forests in the South by adopting a sustainable packaging policy. This meeting was scheduled following a public statement made by CEO David Novak at the company’s Shareholder meeting in May saying that his sustainability team should meet with representatives of our organization. At the eleventh hour, we received an email from Chief Sustainability Officer Roger McClendon cancelling the meeting.
Dogwood Alliance Serves Up Sustainability at the YUM/KFC Shareholder Meeting
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
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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Dogwood Alliance at the YUM/KFC Shareholders Meeting
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…
Dominion Given Award for Tree Planting While Company Gears Up to Burn Trees for Electricity
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…