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<DIV>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.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>NWF's mission is to inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future. <BR><BR>David Mizejewski - Naturalist, Media Personality, Author<BR>Phone: 703-438-6499 | Fax: 703-438-6468 | mizejewski@nwf.org<BR>National Wildlife Federation <BR>11100 Wildlife Center Drive<BR>Reston, VA 20190 <BR>www.nwf.org <BR><BR>>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 1:26 PM, in message <OFDCCED499.44489680-ON85257377.005FB65C-85257377.005FDF7E@fws.gov>, <Patricia_DeAngelis@fws.gov> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 7px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 15px; BORDER-LEFT: #050505 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f3f3f3"><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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 <U>5.2 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions</U> which equals the annual emissions of <B>two million cars</B>. And, it also requires 53 billion gallons of fresh water. </FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><B>We need your help spreading the word about and linking to: </B></FONT><A href="http://www.catalogchoice.org/"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=3><B><U>www.catalogchoice.org</U></B></FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The Ecology Center, National Wildlife Federation and NRDC have collaborated on a new on-line consumer service called <B>Catalog Choice</B> -- 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 <U>another</U> 20,000 signed up bringing the total so far to<U> 25,000!</U> </FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>If this new service can lower catalog printing even by just 20% -- that would be 10 million trees and 100,000 acres of land <U>a year</U> saved. And, a billion pounds of greenhouse gases reduced. (see attached) </FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>If you want to sign up -- </FONT><A href="http://www.catalogchoice.org/"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=3><B><U>www.catalogchoice.org</U></B></FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><B> </B></FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Best, </FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Kevin C. </FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>NWF's mission is to inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future. </FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Kevin J. Coyle, Vice President for Education <BR>Phone: 703-438-6416 | Cell: 703-989- 6020 | </FONT><A href="mailto:CoyleK@nwf.org"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=3><U>CoyleK@nwf.org</U></FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> <BR>National Wildlife Federation <BR>11100 Wildlife Center Drive <BR>Reston, VA 20190-5362 </FONT><FONT color=blue size=3><U><BR></U></FONT><A href="http://www.nwf.org/"><FONT color=blue size=3><U>www.nwf.org</U></FONT></A><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Jo Robinson<BR>Education Specialist<BR>USFWS National Conservation Training Center<BR>698 Conservation Way<BR>Shepherdstown, WV 25443<BR>304.876.7904</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>