volunteers wanted… Volunteer Information Night Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 @ 7:30pm-8:30pm At Dogwood Alliance Office, 129 Biltmore Ave (1/2 block from the Orange Peel in Downtown Asheville) Mark your calendar!!! […]
STOP THE MADNESS OF WASTEFUL PAPER CONSUMPTION – MAKE A ‘SHRINK’ PLEDGE A network of more than 50 European environmental non-governmental organisations today launches “Shrink”, a joint project addressing the […]
Dogwood Alliance strongly supports the findings of this report as an important solution to the climate crisis. As an organization working to protect the forests of the Southern US, we continue to seek positive solutions for our forests and for the climate and following some of the simple steps set forth in this report will help us achieve that goal. In addition to recommendations on zero waste strategies, incinerator bans and extended producer responsibility, as part of our work to solve the packaging problem, we strongly support the following recommendation:
Under heavy pressure from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, New Zealand and Australia, the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP-9) failed to pass a moratorium on the release of genetically engineered trees into the environment despite support for a global ban endorsed by hundreds of organizations around the world, and the unified efforts to stop GE trees carried out by NGOs, Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations, scientists and foresters present at the COP.
UN called on for Genetically Engineered Tree Ban FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 MAY 2008 Activists Symbolically Cut Trees to Save Forests and Call for GE Trees Ban Bonn, Germany-A large […]
