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Greenpeace Brings Awareness about Barbie's Packaging

June 17, 2011 / 0 Comments

If I don't know you, I most likely won't answer the door.  Call me paranoid. However, if you get me on a good day and I am feeling exceptionally social, I will answer the door and engage in what you have to say.  Case in point, door bell rings and I check out the dude and he looks like a hippie.  I know he's not going to be selling my a new internet/phone package (or I hope not) and he's not toting a vacuum cleaner.  Sure, I'll talk to him.  He says he's from Greenpeace.  I respond that Greenpeace comes a knockin' about once a year.  Commercial Drive, where I live, is the ideal neighborhood to recruit Greenpeace members.  This Greenpeace promoter was a UBC student studying environmental science (impressive) and I liked the fact that even after I gave a one-time donation, he still wanted to talk to me about the Greenpeace issues.  He mentioned Greenpeace's current pursuit is against Mattel.  The campaign is called, "Barbie, it's over.  I don't date girls that are into deforestation."  Clever.  Greenpeace is bring awareness to the packaging that Mattel uses from Asia Pulp and Paper.  I have learned that Asia Pulp and Paper is the largest destroyer of Indonesian rainforests, home of  some of the world's last tiger, orang-utans and elephant populations.  You can find out more information on the Barbie/Mattel campaign at the Greenpeace website.

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