Rainforest Relief News

Use the links below and to the right to catch up on the latest up-to-date and archived news about Rainforest Relief campaigns and operations.


		Asbury Park Victory! Santa Monica Uses Tropical Wood Benches Teak Report Cited in Book RR Moves East Lyme Victory! Our ForestBanana™ Project Urbain Design Ends Use of Rainforest Wood Our New Website & Logo Rainforest Relief Teams with EMA on Safe Sets™ Campaign ForestBanana™ Project Update Tim Keating to Speak at GARC Crate & Barrel Ending Sales of Nyatoh Eddie Bauer to Close Home Stores Rainforest Relief Computer Taken “Busted Jesus Comix” is Safe Sets™ Certified Kmart Ending Sales of Nyatoh "Tight Quarters" Opens with Safe Sets™ Rainforest Relief Ad Airs on NY1 Jersey City Victory! RR Teams with Bettencourt Green Building Supplies for Presentation Major Catalog Retailer Ends Sales of Nyatoh Gardener's Supply Goes Green! Hoboken Passes Rainforest Wood Ordinance Linens 'N' Things Victory! Brad Will Killed Rainforest Relief Director on Live TV Plenty Magazine on Palm Oil RR Releases New PSA

Asbury Park Victory!

ASBURY PARK, NJ — Last night, Asbury Park, NJ Councilwoman Kate Mellina proposed that this historic boardwalk resort town — which gained national notoriety with Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” album — end their use of uncertified tropical hardwoods for boardwalk renovations.
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Santa Monica Installs Benches Made of Ipê

Teak is Torture Report Cited in Upcoming Book

Rainforest Relief Has Moved!

East Lyme Victory!



	Another in a string of waterfront victories

EAST LYME, CT — Rainforest Relief has learned today that East Lyme officials voted yesterday to switch to a wood/plastic composite decking product, putting an end to the proposed use of tropical ipê for the boardwalk of the upcoming Niantic Bay Overlook project.
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ForestBanana™ Project Making Progress in Costa Rica

Urbain Design Responds to Rainforest Relief and Ends Their Sales of Rainforest Wood Outdoor Furnishings.

New Beginnings for Rainforest Relief

Welcome to our new website! Find out about our successes and current campaigns as well as what products and companies to avoid to spare the rainforests.

You can also help spare rainforests from the destruction being driven by corporate greed and consumer ignorance by going to our How You Can Help and Take Action sections.

Check the site often — we'll be posting new content every week.
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Rainforest Relief Teams with EMA on Safe Sets™ Campaign




	The Environmental Media Association (EMA) mobilizes the entertainment industry to educate people about environmental issues and inspire them into action

Rainforest Relief has joined with EMA to eliminate the use of lauan plywood in movie and theatrical set construction. A sign-on letter is circulating through Hollywood and recently appeared in Hollywood Reporter and VLife magazines.
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ForestBanana™ Project Update

Rainforest Relief’s director recently returned from Costa Rica (CR), reorganizing the ForestBanana project and preparing the way for this summer’s interns.
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Tim Keating Speaking at Grassroots Animal Rights Conference




	GARC Conference, March 31 – April 2.

Tim Keating will be speaking at the Grassroots Animal Rights Conference this weekend.
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CRATE & BARREL CAMPAIGN VICTORY!




	Crate & Barrel will end their sales of nyatoh furniture from Indonesia by the end of the year.

In a quick response to our April 30th Nyatoh Day of Action protests, Crate & Barrel has announced that they will end their sales of outdoor furniture made from nyatoh, logged from the dwindling rainforests of Indonesia.
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Eddie Bauer Restructuring Will Bring an End to Company's Sales of Nyatoh Furniture




	Eddie Bauer's Summerset nyatoh furniture

Eddie Bauer parent company Spiegel Group has announced their closing of all Eddie Bauer Home stores and thus EB will also no longer sell nyatoh furniture.
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Rainforest Relief's Main Computer Taken

PLEASE READ THIS: The computer belonging to Tim Keating, Rainforest Relief's director, was taken from his bag while it was on a Todays bus from NYC to Washington DC, Wednesday, June 8th.
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Blue Coytoe Theatre Group Opens New Show with Safe Sets™




	"Busted Jesus Comix" has a set made without the use of wood from endangered forests.

Blue Coyote Theatre Group opened Busted Jesus Comix at the Access theatre and their play is again Safe Sets™ Certified by Rainforest Relief, using no wood from endangered forests.
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Kmart's Martha Stewart Outdoor Furniture Ending Use of Nyatoh




	The Martha Stewart Sierra Vista line of outdoor furniture. Martha Stewart, Inc. will no longer sell nyatoh furniture through Kmart.

The Martha Stewart line of outdoor furniture, sold through Kmart, will no longer be made of nyatoh, logged from the old growth rainforests of Indonesia.
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Rainforest Relief Ad with Jane Goodall Airs on NY1




	Flooding caused by hurricane Katrina. Credit: Kyle Niemi/U.S. Coast Guard

Rainforest Relief is once again airing an ad on NY1 calling on New York City to end the use of tropical hardwoods. The city is contributing to the destruction of rainforests and therefore to climate change.
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Tim Keating and Bart Bettencourt Deliver Sustainable Wood Presentation Sponsored by GreenHomeNYC

In yet another in a string of victories in our Outdoor Furniture campaign, Improvements.com, a large retail catalog company owned by Home Shopping Network, has taken immediate steps to completely end their sales of outdoor furniture made of nyatoh and has committed to ending their sales of outdoor furniture made from wood from endangered forests.
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Improvements.com Ends the Sales ofl Outdoor Furniture Made from Nyatoh, Switching to Certified Plantation Woods




	Improvements has stated a commitment to ending the sales of outdoor furniture made of wood logged from endangered forests.

In yet another in a string of victories in our Outdoor Furniture campaign, Improvements.com, a large retail catalog company owned by Home Shopping Network (HSN), has taken immediate steps to completely end their sales of outdoor furniture made of nyatoh and has committed to ending their sales of outdoor furniture made from any wood from endangered forests.
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Gardener's Supply Ends Sales of Outdoor Furniture from Endangered Forests




	Eco-Teak bench sold by Gardener's Supply made from plantation teak

Gardener's Supply, a catalog company with two retail stores in Vermont, has responded to our campaign and ended their sales of outdoor furniture made from wood logged from endangered tropical forests.
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Hoboken, NJ Passes an Ordinance Barring the Use of Rainforest Wood




	A bench along Washington Avenue — the "Main Street" of Hoboken — made of ipê logged from the Amazon rainforests of Brazil

Hoboken, NJ passed an ordinance to end the city's use of rainforest wood. Hoboken has purchased hundreds of benches made from a rainforest wood called ipê.
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Linens 'N' Things to End Sales of Nyatoh Furniture




	LNT has ceased to purchase outdoor furniture made from nyatoh, a wood logged from the old growth rainforests of Indonesia.

Linens 'N' Things, a large retailer with 500 stores across the US and Canada, has announced an end to the purchase and sales of outdoor furniture made from nyatoh, logged from the endangered rainforests of Indonesia.
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Brad Will, Activist and Journalist, Shot to Death in Mexico

New-York-City-based environmental and human rights activist and journalist Brad Will was fatally shot Friday, October 28, in Oaxaca, Mexico while covering the documenting and supporting the protests that have been going on since May.
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Tim Keating Interviewed on "Let Them Talk"




	Tim Keating locked to the gate of the Mexican Consolate in New York

Tim Keating, Rainforest Relief Executive Director, was interviewed on the live television program, "Let Them Talk", about his arrest during a protest at the Mexican Consolate in New York City.
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Rainforest Relief Quoted in Biodiesel Story

Rainforest Relief was quoted in the recent article on biodiesel and palm oil plantations in Plenty Magazine.
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