Saturday was awesome… it was my first protest! We got about a dozen people together, held one really big banner and a bunch of posters.We started at Lowe’s where my roomie (Ian) and Leslie went inside and tried to purchase mulch as suggested in some of the literature you guys sent us. Leslie then presented …
Casey, a GRN intern, was already home in New Jersey for Thanksgiving on the Save Our Cypress Day of Action. We missed her at the New Orleans event that she had done so much to help organize, but she managed to make a splash in New Jersey. Ew, cypress mulch. After lamenting the presence of …
Ashley in Charlotte sent along these photos from the event they held in Charlotte, NC. She told me that the day went well. The management of Lowe’s let the activists educate customers for an hour and a half before finally asking them to leave. The women left behind a lingering memory of their visit on …
Tampa Day of Action went well. I went to two Wal-Marts and really got the attention of the store managers.The first store (closest to my apt) I lucked out and got to speak to the store general manager and a regional manager that happened to be there. When I started telling them why I was …
View full size Vivian Todd, Magnolia Garden Club (Zone IX) and members of the Conservation Committee visit Lowe’s in Beaumont, TX on November 17, 2007 during the CYPRESS CALL FOR ACTION DAY. Unfortunately, we found lots of bags of cypress mulch from Ruston, Louisiana. They were asking Lowe’s to stop selling cypress mulch and to …
Hopefully, everyone has already heard the good news: Wal-Mart has informed their suppliers that they will no longer accept cypress mulch harvested, bagged, or manufactured in the state of Louisiana. If not, you can read about here, here, here, and here.Wal-Mart’s move is a great first step for securing the Gulf’s endangered cypress forests, but …
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