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If the Home Depot campaign is an indication, the greens have a good strategy. Reluctant to be called anti-business, they refer to "market campaigns" rather than consumer boycotts. To deter corporations from taking timber from untouched parts of British Columbia's Great Bear Forest, the world's largest vestige...
"Harry! Remember the ad in the New York Times saying that when those ships net sea bass, they kill millions of birds."
With newspaper ads urging us to save the oceans and forests, and TV spots about global warming, conservation groups are making more noise than ever. The violence of fringe anarchists stole headlines at Seattle's World Trade Organization meeting, but more noteworthy was the huge peaceful demonstration by greens seeking...
Other initiatives come from the deep pockets of eco-conscious foundations, such as the Pew Charitable Trust (assets: $4.7 billion) and the Packard Foundation ($17 billion). Next year, for example, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, with money from Packard, will lead a movement to persuade consumers to stop eating the endangered...
To many environmentalists, the most important issue of all is the apparent onset of global warming. To alert the public--and urge reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions--the National Environmental Trust and the Union of Concerned Scientists have raised $11 million to launch history's largest eco-ad campaign.