Project Partners

The Listening Study is designed to involve collaborations with other organizations in order to increase its reach and expertise. We hope that trade organizations and media will circulate information about it and encourage their memberships to participate in it. We have also chosen a nonprofit organization with special expertise and/or audiences within each specific area to collaborate on gathering responses.

We are proud to have established partnership collaborations with the following organizations:

NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION - Partnering on Forest Issues

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is a not-for-profit conservation education and advocacy organization. NWF was founded in 1936 as a nationwide federation of grassroots conservation groups, and has since emerged as the nationÕs leading grassroots conservation organization, with an extensive network of members and supporters and 47 affiliated organizations throughout the United States and its territories. Combining the local knowledge and focus of its strong grassroots network with the perspective, resources and strength of a national organization, the National Wildlife Federation generates unparalleled support for wildlife, wild places and a healthy environment.

NWF partners with its affiliates and other like-minded organizations to protect and restore wildlife habitats and biodiversity. Its conservation work focuses on the three broad areas of land stewardship, water resources protection and wildlife conservation.

NWFÕs forestry program is defined largely by work with private landowners, restoration of habitat and ecosystem processes, and support for market incentives encouraging forest conservation.

THE RECYCLED PAPER COALITION - Partnering on Market Factors and Recycled Content Issues

The Recycled Paper Coalition (RPC) was a voluntary organization of major paper users which strove to conserve natural resources and reduce waste by purchasing environmentally-preferred paper products and by using paper products more efficiently. The Coalition drew up its charter in June 1992 and numbered over 270 members, including such corporations as Warner Bros., Texas Instruments, Levi-Strauss (The Americas), and Ford Motor Company. The RPC closed in 2004.

Its National Board of Directors included Bank of America, Kaiser Permanente, Pitney Bowes, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the California Integrated Waste Management Board, Hewlett-Packard, Norm Thompson Outfitters, The City of Chicago, RR Donnelley & Sons Company, Environmental Law & Policy Center, the Alameda County Waste Management Authority and Source Reduction and Recycling Board, Corporate Express, American Product Distributors, and the Walt Disney Company.

INFORM - Partnering on Chlorine Free Paper Issues

INFORM, Inc. is an independent research organization that examines the effects of business practices on the environment and on human health. Its goal is to identify ways of doing business that ensure environmentally sustainable economic growth. Among its three research areas is Toxic Chemicals and Human Health. Through tackling environmental challenges in a serious, objective way, INFORM has earned a reputation for thorough, accurate analysis and clear, solution-oriented reporting. It publishes its research in books, newsletters, articles, and on the Internet, and its reports are used by government, industry, and environmental leaders around the world.

FIBER FUTURES - Partnering on Tree Free Paper Issues

Fiber Futures is a non-profit environmental advocacy and consulting group focused on catalyzing the use of agricultural residues and other tree-free fibers in pulp & paper, building materials, textiles and other sustainable fiber-based products. As a business development resource, Fiber Futures provides critical information to start-up enterprises and initiates strategic alliances to further uses of emerging fibers. In this respect, Fiber Futures performs market research, refines business plans, sponsors product showcases, convenes educational forums, identifies potential sources of capital, and locates markets for new products. As an information resource, Fiber Futures conveys the benefits and opportunities for using non-traditional fiber resources through its web site, publications and white papers.

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