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...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 of coastal temperate rain forest, the Rainforest Action Network, along with the Sierra Club and other groups, used a stick and carrot on the big customers of lumber companies. The activists blasted Home Depot for buying Great Bear wood, but when the chain stopped, they ran ads praising the decision...
...fast. I just saw a Rainforest Action Network ad thanking Home Depot for changing its purchasing policies...
...RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK...
Topics included a nationwide drop in union membership, the closing of local factories, increasing water pollution, and concern about rainforest destruction and international human rights abuses...
...They say that high school students are completely apathetic these days, that we simply don't care...but I'm here to tell you apathy is dead," declared Rainforest Action Network member and high school student Pepper Yelford...