Environmentalists claimed victory on Wednesday after the publisher of the Victoria’s Secret catalog agreed not to use paper from an area of Western Canada that is home to threatened caribou herd.
U.S. retailer Limited Brands also agreed to increase the amount of recycled paper used in its catalogs, and to increase the environmental standards it requires in buying paper produced from logging in the boreal forests that stretch across northern Canada.
The company’s catalogs will use either 10 percent recycled paper or 10 percent new paper from sources certified by the Forest Stewardship Council as having been produced in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Environmentalists had targeted Victoria’s Secret in a two-year public relations campaign, saying its heavy demand for paper using virgin wood fiber was destroying an ecosystem that is needed to slow global warming.
Victoria’s Secret sends out more than 360 million catalogs each year marketing its intimate apparel products.
The environmental groups, which nicknamed their campaign ”Victoria’s Dirty Secret,” were particularly upset about logging in the Rocky Mountain foothills of Alberta that is the habitat of the woodland caribou.
“With this agreement, Victoria’s Secret is saying that Alberta’s just too dirty, and that Canada needs to clean up its act,” Tzeporah Berman, program director for ForestEthics, said in a statement.
Geez, and it was such a turn-on knowing that it was virgin wood fiber.
Well, until they make biodegradable panties and camis, I’m still boycotting.
… because I wear them that long.
16 posts in a row. Where’s the diversity?
… had to clarify in case you didn’t get the obvious joke. Or botched joke, if you will. Dan, what is your point here? Are you reaching? Out of your league?
Dan,
WTF!
16 posts in 15 hours?!
Is it a bet? A joke? Ego?
Again, I can only ask…WTF?
what are you talking about?
Dan is apparently a man on a mission. We’re not sure what the mission is, but he’s on it, baybee.
Do you guys complain when the champagne doesn’t run out too?
I complain when the free beer is crappy beer. But I drink it anyway.
BTW, my comment has nothing to do with weblogs and everything to do with free beer during the first quarter of monday night football at one of my haunts.
If the champagne is good, no.
C’mon, people. Stop crabbin’ Dan’s about to get into the Guinness Book of World Records.
Semi-related…
Did you guys hear about the Australian anti-mullah bikini protests?
I’m sponsoring a Hotties For Freedom contest over at my site…
– I “herd” a rumor they were planning on making a part of this years line of fashions out of paper, in which case we’d all have to learn more patience. Those cuts can be nasty. That, and someone should look into all this unnatural Caribou love stuff.
Bah!
Champagne is for women and frenchmen.
Sorry for being redundant.
Besides, it wasn’t so much a a complaint, as it was concern. I mean, I hope Dan hasn’t discovered meth or something…
Not to direct the conversation away from Dan’s obvious perfection of the blog-o-matic (not sold in stores!)but isn’t anyone else depressed that in the future there will be absolutely nothing even remotely virginal in the VS catalogue?
Only the French could put holes in a wine and then charge more for it.
I was enjoying the image of Cynn boycotting underwear and then she went and spoiled it all.
I got your virgin wood right here, buddy.
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…uh, never mind. Don’t click the submit button. I SAID DON’T CLICK THE SUBM
Caribou underwear. Problem solved. everybody back to work.
Will these changes make the pages stick together?
Instant Hullabaloo Generator
Paper and Caribou fur underwear.
Brings a new meaning to “Global Warming!”
I’m still with Glen Beck, “I’d drill a Caribou’s head for oil!”
Tai–
Well, they would, but they found a way to pre-coat them in Vaseline.
– Vaseline?….Vaseline?…. what are we blog wuss’s….Astroglide babiiiieee….Gotta kick this place into the 21st century…..
TW: after16? ….Turing twit….put a cork in it….you’re gonna get us banned over here…..
THAT’S Victorias DIRTY Little Secret. Damn, that’s disappointing.
Fetishist!