Official Homepage
of Stealing Home Coalition
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Write
Home Depot and ask them
to stop selling old growth lumber.
| Home Depot is still sourcing and selling
old growth Redwood and other old growth trees. Ask Home Depot to send you
a letter stating that they will stop using old growth lumber period. |
The Home Depot
2455 Paces Ferry Road
Atlanta, GA 30339
(770) 433-8211
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Home Depot headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia sources and
sells old growth trees such as redwoods, mahagony, Douglas Fir, Ramin,
Cedar, Lauan, luan, meranti, Philippine Mahogany for lumber. Our rainforest
is being clearcut, our old growth and indigenous people in tropical and
temperate rainforests are being driven into extinction along with endangered
species. In the Pacific Northwest, Maxxam and Pacific Lumber are destroying
old growth forests - these are not renewable resources.
Rainforest Relief, Action Resource Center, Rainforest
Action Network (RAN) and others protest with direct non-violent action
to save our tropical rainforest and old-growth forests and endangered species.
We must prevent our old growth forests from becoming lumber yards.
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The State of the
World's
Old Growth Forests
- The United States has already lost 96% of its old growth
forests
- Only 22% of the world's old growth forests are still
intact
- 76 countries have already lost all of their old growth
forests. Eleven more countries are on the verge of losing their old growth
forests.
- 70% of the world's remaining old growth forests are in
Brazil, Russia, and Canada.
- Outside of the world's cold boreal regions, 75% of the
world's old growth forest is threatened.
- Global wood consumption has increased 2.5 times since
1950.
- Wood consumption in the United States and Canada is three
times the level in underdeveloped countries and double that of other industrialized
nations.
- North American wood consumption is expected to increase
46% by the year 2040.
- We already have the technology to reduce our wood consumption
by 75-90%.
Source: Rainforest Action Network
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- Rainforest
Relief paper - Old Growth
Stats - Neighboring
Birds are Poisoned - Home
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(site updated Oct 1998)