Call on Lowe’s to End the Mulch Madness
April 10th, 2008Harvesting cypress for mulch destroys the Gulf Coast, but Lowe’s continues to sell it while simultaneously touting their corporate environmental policies and concern for the planet’s forests. Pick up your phone today to help call out the company’s hypocrisy!
You and I know that cypress forests serve many roles in their ecosystems, but Lowe’s apparently thinks they’re more useful ground up in plastic bags in the gardening department.
Many of the cypress swamps being cut for mulch are not coming back, and yet the product remains on the shelves when sustainable alternatives (like pine bark, pine straw, eucalyptus, melaleuca, etc.) are readily available. Contradicting their own corporate policies, Lowe’s is fostering the permanent destruction of a national treasure, but you can help end the mulch madness!
Once you’ve called Lowe’s, feel free to let Home Depot and Wal-Mart know what you think about cypress mulch too.
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April 10th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
A good free market approach to this would be to organize a consumer boycott of Lowe’s and get some national attention. Companies pay attention when their bottom line looks to be at risk.
Along with that, we could try to get actor Gene Hackman, currently earning big bucks as the commercial voiceover in TV ads for Lowe’s, to back out of his deal with them and support the boycott.
That would get immediate national media attention. Wonder if Hackman would do it? Surely he doesn’t need the money at this stage of his career.