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6/8/2009
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the maker of
Kleenex, Scott and Cottonelle brands, has announced stronger fiber sourcing standards that will reduce the company's impact on
forests worldwide. The move comes in response to a long campaign by ...
5/8/2009
Paper products giant Kimberly-Clark Corp joined forces with Greenpeace on Wednesday, pledging to conserve
forests by getting wood fiber from environmentally responsible sources.In an announcement with the environmental group, which waged ...
8/8/2007
On matters related to the harvesting of timber, Greenpeace members are more
likely to form human blockades against the practice than to make nice with the
industry.
But the environmental group has indeed linked arms with its ...
12/2/2007
Four protesters from Greenpeace were arrested this morning after they
scattered woodchips around the city centre corporate offices of Kimberly-Clark
Ltd. and then chained themselves together to protest the company's
forestry ...
27/9/2006
Question: When you wipe your nose with a
Kleenex, are you helping wipe out
ancient
forests?
Answer: That depends entirely on who you ask.
The environmental groups Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council
say ...
27/4/2006
Greenpeace activists today blockaded a Kimberly-Clark factory in Huntsville,
Ontario, demanding that the company stop making
Kleenex and other disposable
tissue products from clearcut ancient
forests, including Canada's
Boreal. Over
20 ...
21/4/2006
The topic can be delicate: what to wipe our hands, noses and, yup, rear ends
with when the need arises. With Earth Day celebrated this Saturday,
environmental groups are asking Americans to switch to recycled paper towels,
napkins, ...
30/12/2005
With flu and cold season kicking in, environmentalists are rolling out a new
wallet-sized card that they hope will guide consumers to buy environmentally
responsible tissues to soothe their stuffy noses.
Activists are targeting ...
3/11/2005
TORONTO (CP) - Sexy lingerie catalogues and extra-soft tissues aren't worth
destroying Canada's ancient
forests, environmental advocates said Thursday as
they staged rallies in cities across North America on behalf of the continent's ...
3/11/2005
TORONTO (CP) - Protesters are rallying at more than 300 sites across North
America to try to save Canada's
boreal forest from being wiped out for
commercial gain.
Rallies are being staged in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, ...
5/7/2005
MISSISSAUGA, ON, July 5 /CNW Telbec/ - Greenpeace's
Forest Crimes Unit
today set up a
Forest Crime Scene at Kimberly-Clark's Canadian headquarters in
Mississauga, Ontario. Kimberly-Clark, the world's largest manufacturer of
tissue ...
1/3/2005
WATERLOO, March 1 /CNW Telbec/ - Greenpeace made the second stop on its week
long tour of southern and southwestern Ontario cities in Waterloo today, calling
on shoppers to stop buying
Kleenex brand tissue products. The Valumart on King ...
19/11/2004
The world's largest conservation congress will debate a resolution in Bangkok
this weekend calling on Canada to take stronger action to protect its
boreal
forest.
"The draft resolution encourages governments at all levels ...
19/9/2003
Crowning the Earth and stretching across Russia and Canada, is a wide expanse
of
forest that comprises the largest ecosystem in the world - the
Boreal forest.
This northern treasure is a unique mixture of conifers and deciduous trees ...