[PCA] Fw: On-line tool tor reduce shopping catalog mailings - save a tree! or a habitat!

[David Mizejewski]

Thanks for passing along the information on Catalog Choice, Patricia.  Tomorrow morning (10/18), Catalog Choice will be featured on Good Morning America.  Sam Champion will be doing a short segment live, and I will be taping a longer segment with Sam to air on ABC's "Good Morning America NOW" web TV program.
 
NWF's mission is to inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future. 

David Mizejewski - Naturalist, Media Personality, Author
Phone: 703-438-6499  |  Fax: 703-438-6468 | mizejewski at nwf.org 
National Wildlife Federation 
11100 Wildlife Center Drive
Reston, VA 20190 
www.nwf.org  

>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at  1:26 PM, in message <OFDCCED499.44489680-ON85257377.005FB65C-85257377.005FDF7E at fws.gov>, <Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov> wrote:

Paper usage has a huge impact on the environment.  Each year, 19 billion catalogs are mailed to American consumers. This uses 53 million trees (between 300,000 and 500,00 acres of land cleared or thinned) and comprises 7.2 billion pounds of paper.  Processing and transporting this paper results in 5.2 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions which equals the annual emissions of two million cars.  And, it also requires 53 billion gallons of fresh water.   
  
We need your help spreading the word about and linking to: www.catalogchoice.org ( http://www.catalogchoice.org/ )
  
The Ecology Center, National Wildlife Federation and NRDC have collaborated on a new on-line consumer service called Catalog Choice -- it gives people who shop via catalogs the choice of WHICH catalogs they will receive in the mail (and which ones they wish to stop)  We were excited when 5,000 people signed up for the service between tues and friday last week.  But!  In just the past 72 hours another 20,000 signed up bringing the total so far to25,000!   
  
If this new service can lower catalog printing even by just 20% -- that would be 10 million trees and 100,000 acres of land a year saved.  And, a billion pounds of greenhouse gases reduced.  (see attached) 
  
If you want to sign up --  www.catalogchoice.org ( http://www.catalogchoice.org/ )
  
Best, 
  
Kevin C. 
  
NWF's mission is to inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future. 
  
Kevin J. Coyle, Vice President for Education  
Phone: 703-438-6416  | Cell: 703-989- 6020  |  CoyleK at nwf.org
National Wildlife Federation 
11100 Wildlife Center Drive 
Reston, VA 20190-5362 
www.nwf.org ( http://www.nwf.org/ )

Jo Robinson
Education Specialist
USFWS National Conservation Training Center
698 Conservation Way
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
304.876.7904
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