Check out the coverage on Bellingham, WA's anti-Tar Sands resolution

Enbridge is steamrolling ahead with its plan for a Tar Sands pipeline and crude oil tankers on the BC coast, despite strong public opposition.

Read this important post from our Executive Director, Todd Paglia

Yesterday's unveiling of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement marked a historic moment in the fight to protect the world's most critical forests.

Read this important op-ed from our Energy Campaigner, Karen Tam Wu

First Nations and other Canadian citizens stage demonstrations against Enbridge's proposed Tar Sands pipeline

We don't need years of further process to do what British Columbians have always known is right.

Offering offsets for 'business as usual' is a waste of money, said Valerie Langer of ForestEthics...

British Columbian environmentalists are pointing to Enbridge's recent Manitoba spill as another failure...

"Every time we turn around Enbridge is spilling more oil," said ForestEthics Campaigner Nikki Skuce in a media release.

ForestEthics stands with BC First Nations on this issue. Will you?

British Columbia is experiencing its own real life Avatar story, as climate change threatens the province's diverse natural wealth.

Whole Foods rejects Tar Sands fuel; Bed, Bath & Beyond requests cleaner fuel

Two major U.S. retailers rebuke Alberta's oilsands by avoiding suppliers who use its fuel, and putting pressure on energy titans.

Whole Foods and Bed Bath & Beyond decided to avoid suppliers that source fuel from Canada’s Tar Sands to curb their carbon footprints.

Company actions underline how industry is moving to fill the void left by inaction at Copenhagen

Executive Director Todd Paglia asks: Why are we PAYING for junk mail?

Seven B.C.-based groups, including the David Suzuki Foundation, ForestEthics and West Coast Environmental Law Society, are preparing to release a report...

This week, the group Forest Ethics lobbed a new grenade into the pipeline debate, focusing on the fact the land across B.C.'s north is inhabited by more than 50 aboriginal groups who never gave up treaty rights to their territory.

Our video PSA with Environmental Defence makes headlines in Canada

At world's largest green building conference, we called Sustainabie Forestry (SFI) on its greenwash.

Watch the PSA we released with Environmental Defence and Zig and read its review.

As Canadian Prime Minister came to visit Obama on September 16, ForestEthics landed op-eds on both sides of the border.

"Our top line message is that Canada's tarsands are inconsistent with President Obama's clean energy vision," says Gillian McEachern, senior climate campaigner at ForestEthics.

We're taking major greenwashers to court, NY Times reports...

Read about our action-packed last few weeks

Catharine Grant continues to blog about the Far North hearings

Catharine Grant continues to blog about the Far North hearings

Catharine Grant continues to blog about the Far North hearings

Catharine Grant continues to blog about the Far North hearings

Critics of the state's largest private landowner say it's spraying too much herbicide on its cleared timberland.

An Alberta resident launched a private prosecution against one of the country's largest oils-sands' operators, alleging that it was responsible for killing 500 ducks at its northern Alberta facility last spring.

Pop quiz: After Saudi Arabia, which country has the most proven oil reserves? Wrong. Not only wrong, but wrong part of the world. Unless you are among the .00001 percent who guessed Canada -- in which case, congratulations!

SAN ANDREAS - The environmental group Forest Ethics released a report Thursday analyzing the 770,000 pounds of herbicides that timber giant Sierra Pacific Industries used on its lands during an 11-year period and calling on the company to reduce its use of the chemicals.

Remember when going through the mail was a thrill? These days Americans get an average of 18 pieces of junk mail for every personal letter.

To the folks on his route through the cul-de-sacs of Apex, N.C., Steve Padgett wasn't just a great mailman but a decent guy who once sent a pink teddy bear to an ailing neighborhood kid.

From the napkins around paper coffee cups to our morning newspaper, the junk mail and the bedtime book, paper is everywhere. We use more and more of it, and its impact on the environment is huge.

AbitibiBowater recently announced it will pursue FSC certification for forests covering 3.2 million hectares in Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia.

Have you ever considered how much wasted energy and resources your mailbox witnesses and must manage? It's an absolute powder keg of used energy and resources.

Junk mail can clutter the mailboxes of the rich and poor, young and old. For most people, it's the last thing they want to see when they open their mailboxes.

Kristi Chester-Vance, Communications Director of ForestEthics, discusses the environmental travesty that is taking place in Alberta to extract oil from the Tar Sands.

Much of California's logging comes from Sierra Pacific Industries — the largest private landowner in the state, owning more than 1.7 million acres in the Sierra Nevada.

Thank you for your editorial about the Humboldt Redwood Company's acquisition of Pacific Lumber Co. lands and its willingness to engage with the environmental community.

Artists have always made statements on environmental issues, and these days more and more are practising what they preach. In abandoned lots and derelict public parks, guerrilla gardeners plant flowers, trees and vegetables.

Case in point: ForestEthics, a nonprofit focused on protecting California forests, came out with a report card last month that evaluated pencil companies on whether they use recycled material or wood that has been certified for practices that preserve endangered species and the long-term health of forests.

Listen to Paul Harvey Jr.'s report on how ForestEthics reveals an even bigger reason to hate junk mail.

More than 100 billion pieces of junk mail floods mailboxes on a yearly basis—that’s more than 900 pieces per household—reporting exclusive offers, urgent messages, nearly impossible promises and must-buy merchandise.

4. Dress down. Upset at the number of trees felled to make Victoria’s Secret catalogs, ForestEthics protesters showed up at the company’s cross-country tour in 2004 wearing angel wings, lingerie, and wielding chainsaws.

ForestEthics is calling on the federal and Alberta governments to clean up the Tar Sands and enforce environmental regulation.

Unlike our President, I did open the e-mail. I also saw the movies about climate change, watched the television specials, and I read the books.

Ontario has made the largest conservation commitment in Canadian history, setting aside at least half the Northern Boreal region – 225,000 square kilometres – for permanent protection from development, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced yesterday.

The Canadian province of Ontario will permanently protect a gigantic swath of boreal forest in what green group ForestEthics says is the largest conservation deal in Canada's history and one of the top three forest protection initiatives anywhere, evah.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The government of the Canadian province of Ontario said on Monday it will conserve a huge swath of the province's northern boreal forest to protect polar bears and other wildlife and to help fight climate change.

As a provincial regulator moves ahead with new enforcement tools to crack down on waste from Alberta's oilsands sector, new statistics have revealed a majority of projects faced no fines or prosecution in recent years under environmental protection legislation.

For years, every level of Canadian government has made assurances to the First Nations – most never carried out. But in just a couple weeks, we've seen amazing gains for First Nations communities in Ontario.

“Stop funding our death” was one message sent to investors Monday during a protest at the Oil and Gas Investment Symposium hosted by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers in Calgary.

Shell officials want to clear the air about concerns surrounding its proposed heavy oil refinery project.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is holding an Oil and Gas Investment Symposium in Calgary from June 16-18. The event brings together over 85 companies and 375 investors from Canada, the USA, and around the world - many of these folks are big funders in the Alberta Tar Sands, with others looking to expand into that market.

A New York hedge-fund analyst unwittingly wound up in the middle of an environmental protest on Monday against oilsands development.

Most people would get excited about receiving a large brown package in the mail. But I dread checking my work mail slot because of them.

To save the planet, we need to take a handful of big steps, like regulating greenhouse gas emissions. We also need to take many, many small steps, like recycling, buying paper from sustainably-harvested forests and using less packaging.

Environmentalists and the forest industry shared some rare common ground Tuesday in blasting the Ontario government for last-minute changes to how "gold standard" endangered species legislation will be implemented.

Environmentalists and the forest industry shared some rare common ground Tuesday in blasting the Ontario government for last-minute changes to how "gold standard" endangered species legislation will be implemented.

Walpole Island leaders are calling for First Nation representation on an environmental panel that would study Shell Canada's multi-billion refinery proposed for Lambton County.

The gap between environmentalism and the mining industry has historically been a chasm on the scale of the Grand Canyon; will technology, a desire for a greater global market share and a mutual goal of making Canada a world leader in environmentalism bring the two sides closer together?

Spotted owls, silted streams, raging wildfires - there has been no shortage of fuel for the timber wars over the decades. Add climate change to the mix.

As the dead duck story ricocheted around the world Wednesday, Premier Ed Stelmach said Alberta is engaged in a David-and-Goliath battle to defend the province against misinformation from environmental groups.

In the eyes of the provincial government, the massive projects will unlock a secure and environmentally sustainable source of energy for Canada and the world. In the words of environmental activists, they are among the most destructive developments on the planet.

Taking environmental protest against timber clear-cutting to a new level, ForestEthics, a San Francisco-based conservation group, released a report last week showing how Sierra Pacific Industries has contributed to global warming.

A pair of recently released reports -- one by a timber giant and the other by timber critics -- are at odds about the effect logging has on climate change.

A battle of words is heating up as environmentalists and the state's largest timber producer countdown the days to a critical state court decision on timber harvesting in California.

Toilet paper and similar products are hardly our only paper woes. Another insidious paper use — and one that’s annoying instead of useful to boot — is junk mail.

Major office supply companies have made progress incorporating more environmentally responsible practices, according to a new report card.

That Fall/Winter 2007 Canadian Tire catalogue sitting in your washroom magazine stand is now a collector's item.

The vast majority of American people disagree with the editorial, “No need for laws on junk mail” published on March 30th, 2008. A recent Zogby International poll concluded that 89% of people would support a tool similar to the Do Not Call registry to make it easy to opt out of unsolicited junk mail.

Sure they fight the rain and snow and dark of night — but if all the mail carrier delivers is junk mail, some people are saying don’t bother.

Instead of stepping forward with ideas on how to help solve the identity crisis issue—which is due in part to the junk mail industry’s handling of names and personal data—the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and the businesses it regulates are wailing over the fact that states, fifteen of them, have started to enact their own laws.

The Eaton's catalogue and the stores whose wares it plugged have long since gone, and now another iconic piece of Canadian mail-order retailing is biting the dust.

Canadian Tire Corp. will not be printing any more of its paper catalogues, sent to millions of Canadian homes every year, in a move that eliminates another contract for printer Quebecor World.