No-mail-list

So, funny thing happened to me- no more than a few hours after Wednesday’s class, I went to see “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” at the theatre. Of course the movie itself has nothing to do with anything we talked about in class…but they have those new pre-preview shows called Screenvision. This “episode” was on going green, and the first topic they talked about was ForestEthics and its work on preventing junk mail. They interviewed a few people on how many trees are being destroyed in vain, because no one actually reads the mail, let alone recycle it. Interestingly enough, this seemingly easy task has met it’s share of challenges, with companies defending their right to market themselves and how they “rely” on this form in particular. ForestEthics is trying to work with everyone involved to find a happy medium, but unfortunately even a mediate amount of junk mail equals trees dying. All together, though, this organization has managed to be successful and have a positive outlook for the future. I am wishing them the best of luck, and if there is anywhere I can…sign me up!!!

Happy Earth Day

I really appreciated the current event presentation on the ‘Do Not Mail’ Campaign to stop junk mail. I am all about saving the environment and it shocked and appalled me to see that ‘the production of the 100 billion pieces of junk mail that Americans annually receive requires more than 100 million trees, while producing as much global warming emissions as 3.7 million cars.’ This is actually one of the first current event presentations that got me really excited and wanting to do something to change what is happening. Not only is junk mail annoying, it is ruining the environment. I think everyone needs to go to ForestEthics.com and sign up to stop receiving junk mail. Like people were saying in class, it takes so much time (I know, I am lazy) to open up all the junk mail, toss the envelope, then recycle the papers. For me, it is so much easier to just toss the whole thing. Seeing that doing so takes over 100 million trees, I am so much more apt to start recycling, even though it’s a bit more work. Along with ForestEthics, I am also urging everyone to sign an online petition to offer them control over the unsolicited coupons, credit cards, catalogs, advertisements etc. Global warming is such an issue that Americans are trying to deal with, this seems like such an easy way to help. SIGN THE PETITION!