Comments on: Green Celebrities Help Support The Do Not Mail Campaign

By: John123

John123 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:01:56 +0000

Yes, comments are very useful thing for communication!

By: Will

Will — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:26:38 +0000

The FAQ on donotmail.org (http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=48) says that ForestEthics supports an exemption for nonprofits, but also supports those non profits using best practices– increased recycled content, FSC-certified sourcing, and reduced overall paper use, among others.

Regardless, it’s hard to see how allowing our forests and ecosystems to be degraded looks out “for the long term of the environmental movement”.

The Do Not Mail petition has just cleared 26,000 signatures after only a few weeks, and probably a good number of those folks have become new ForestEthics members. This required no mass mailing.

In fact, this very blog post and commentary points to a future where we can communicate while not ravaging the forests that help us fight climate change.

By: parrish

parrish — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:07:57 +0000

Bravegal- I hear you…BUT…Forest Ethics isn’t trying to ban all solicited mail. They simply think the receiver should have a say in what they get. If I want PETA to back the hell off, it should be my place to say so. Know what I mean, Jelly bean?

By: bravegal

bravegal — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:01:02 +0000

So… how do you all think major environmental non-profits are funded? If you look at their annual budgets – a lot of their fundraising comes from the mail. People don’t randomly think – in the numbers needed – I should make a gift today . Plus everyone is so protective of their email address, it’s hard for environmental non-profits to reach us otherwise.

I appreciate Grenier’s sentiment, but it’s not looking out for the long term of the environmental movement and its ability to fund important initiatives.

By: oakling

oakling — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:59:18 +0000

Most of my junk mail is from organizations that I might have signed up with years ago, or who are connected to places I was involved with years ago, who I don’t want any more information from – and I just keep recycling it. I wish there were an easy way to get off THOSE lists; calling them up and trying to get them to find me in their databases and take me out is prohibitively annoying. And so they go straight into the recycling every week….