March 9, 2005

• Another forward:
  

  When you shop at Victoria’s Secret you are supporting the destruction of the great northern Boreal forest of Canada for their catalogues. Sent out at the rate of about a million a day almost all of these catalogs are produced from virgin fiber paper with little or no recycled content. An area the size of Delaware is cut in the Boreal every year, the majority of which goes to make pulp and paper for export to the U.S. From Alaska to the Atlantic the Boreal forest stretches. Most of the Boreal is the traditional territory of Canada’s aboriginal peoples, and critical habitat for bears, wolves, the threatened woodland caribou, as well as over 40% of North America’s waterfowl and 30% of our songbirds. Forest clear-cutting and pollution from logging and processing operations threaten the health and continuity of many of these populations.

  “Victoria’s Secret mails out more than a million catalogs a day, and the cost of these catalogs isn’t sexy—they’re printed on paper made from some of the world’s last remaining Endangered Forests.”

  http://www.victoriasdirtysecret.net/

  Besides, from what I’ve seen, most of their stuff, while better than fredriks, isn’t all that good anyway.

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