Cindy Crawford *SUPER BOWL AD ALERT* 27JAN18

TOO bad cindy crawford is so ignorant about the environmental and labor problems pepsi is causing in Indonesia that she did this new ad. Or maybe she is greedy and doesn't care. She can let us know if she publicly calls on pepsico to adopt and practice responsible palm oil policies. Please watch this video and sign the petition from SumOfUs......

Pepsi’s bringing back that steamy Cindy Crawford ad for the Super Bowl next week.   Old school soda machine, 90’s supermodel Cindy Crawford, retro music and drinks, this ad will show it all… well almost. One thing you won’t see in Pepsi’s Super Bowl ad is the company’s old school stance on palm oil and its ties to rainforest destruction and labor abuses.    We have a solution for that -- our very own retro ad!   To crash Pepsi’s Super Bowl party, we’re bringing back a spoof ad to get under Pepsi’s skin and force it to only use responsible palm oil.   To pressure Pepsi, we need as many people as possible watching the video before Super Bowl Sunday February 4. That’s where you come in. We need you to help us compete with the second most watched sporting event in the world. Can you watch and share the Super Bowl ad Pepsi doesn’t want you to see? Pepsi buys half a million metric tons of palm oil per year to make products that we buy like Doritos, Cheetos, Quaker Granola Bars, and Lay’s potato chips. The reality of what happens on oil palm plantations is very different to Pepsi’s fun, sexy, greenwashing advertising campaigns. Pepsi’s conflict palm oil is driving rainforest destruction and the extinction of already endangered animals like orangutans, tigers, and elephants. Workers in the palm oil industry are paid unethically low wages, and many don’t have adequate health and safety protection. With the Super Bowl around the corner, now’s the perfect time to spread the word about Pepsi’s practices, by watching the video and sharing the video with your friends, family, and colleagues. Click here to watch the video and then share it with your friends. Over the past 3 years we’ve made spoof ads together, and thanks to the SumOfUs community, the Doritos and Crystal Pepsi videos went viral, clocking around 25 million views. This helped bring PepsiCo back to the negotiating table, and forced it to come up with a new palm oil commitment.   But it’s still not good enough. Even after this week's smoke screen announcement that Pepsi would partially suspend business with IndoAgri, the snack food giant’s palm oil policy does not cover its Indonesian joint venture partner and palm oil offender, Indofood.   That’s why we have to keep up the pressure. Campaigning by the SumOfUs community has already pushed big companies like McDonald’s, Starbucks, and Kellogg’s to adopt responsible palm oil policies.   Our eyes are set on Pepsi and we know they’re watching us too. We know this tactic works -- but we need your help to make this ad a the real star of this year’s Super Bowl. Click here to watch the video and then share it with your friends. Thanks for all that you do, Fatah, Andrea, and the team at SumOfUs More information: PepsiCo Admits Connection to Ongoing Labor Abuse In First Public Statement Following Investigative Report, Rainforest Action Network, 24 January 2018 Cindy Crawford is re-creating her iconic Pepsi ad for Super Bowl LII, The Washington Post, 22 January 2018

INDONESIA'S JUNGLE & PEATLANDS BURN, CORPORATE AMERICA MAKES EMPTY PROMISES 7MAR16

pepsi, johnson & johnson, and colgate-palmolive are responsible for the continuing burning of Indonesia. The ceos and corporate boards might as well be lighting the fires themselves. +Greenpeace USA  is part of a petition campaign to force these companies to stop buying palm oil and paper products from plantations planted on recently burned land. They must follow Indonesia's plans for stopping rainforest and peatland destruction. Please click one of the links to sign the petition, share it with friends and be sure to stop buying these companies products until they stop burning Indonesia. 

The palm oil industry is the number one cause of rainforest destruction in Indonesia. Tell PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson and other major brands to take urgent action to stop the destruction.

One of the greatest environmental disasters of the 21st century happened last September.

What's even more unbelievable is that it's going to happen all over again in just a few months. And it will keep happening every year unless we take action now.

When enormous forest fires tore across Indonesia just six months ago, they reduced millions of acres of vibrant, living tropical rainforest and peatland to smoking ash. The scale of devastation was immense — the fires spewed out more C02 than the entire country of Japan, made hundreds of thousands of people sick, and destroyed precious orangutan habitat.

Unless we make those responsible take action, these fires are coming back to cause even more destruction.

Will you tell major brands like PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson to stop the destruction of forests and peatland for palm oil?.

Those fires were no natural disaster. Over several decades, huge areas of forest have been slashed and burned, and watery peatland has been drained for palm oil and paper plantations. That destruction is the root cause of the forest fires.

We can change this. When we act together, we make a real difference on the ground. Last year over 253,000 of us told the Indonesian president: Stop letting paper and palm oil companies destroy forests and peatlands.

And it worked — the president moved quickly to bring in ambitious new plans to protect Indonesian peatland. But now, the big brands that buy palm oil from Indonesia need to step up and make this change happen. 

Brands like PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson all like to talk loudly about their 'no deforestation' policies. But despite promises and pledges, more of Indonesia’s rainforest is being destroyed right now than ever before. Empty promises aren’t working, because they’re not enforced on the ground. These brands have to give us real commitments, real timelines and real action against their suppliers who destroy forests and peatlands. And you can make them do it.

A forest fire in Indonesia may seem thousands of miles away, but the everyday products that cause this suffering are in our cupboards and on our bathroom shelves. Palm oil is in everything from cosmetics and shampoo to chocolate bars and breakfast cereals. It’s hard to avoid, and sustainable alternatives are so incredibly limited.

The only answer is to change the entire industry. I hope I can count on you to be a part of protecting these last precious forests.

For the Forests,

Rolf Skar
Forests Campaign Director, Greenpeace USA

P.S. Unless we force industry to stop trashing the rainforests for this palm oil, the last home of endangered orangutans will be lost forever. Take action now!

Finger lickin' good news 4APR13

THIS shows that participating to calls to action, signing on line petitions, sending e mails and tweets and making phone calls does make a difference. From Greenpeace......

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Thanks to you, KFC is committing to this monumental breakthrough in rainforest conservation! Rainforests are worth a lot more than greasy napkins and chicken buckets. And finally KFC is starting to agree. Yum! Brands, the parent company of KFC, has officially released new policies that – if they stick – would prevent its restaurants from using throw-away paper packaging made from rainforest destruction. It is a huge shift that will affect almost 40,000 restaurants around the world. This is a big deal for the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the Indonesian rainforest. And this breakthrough is no coincidence. It was a result of your efforts. After Greenpeace showed that wood fiber from rainforest trees was ending up in chicken buckets, you and activists around the world spoke up, telling KFC and Yum! Brands executives that trashing tiger forests was not acceptable. Thank you for lending your voice to the orangutans, Sumatran tigers and other species who call the Indonesian rainforest home. You made this change possible. Only weeks ago I got to share with you that Asia Pulp & Paper, a major rainforest destroyer, had announced its commitment to end its deforestation. Now one of the world’s biggest fast food companies is taking another huge step forward to protect the world’s forests, making two big breakthroughs for the forest in this year alone. With this momentum, imagine what is possible in the years ahead. Of course, we are watching Yum! Brands closely to ensure that it really honors the commitments it has made and fills in the details of its plan. The company also has a long way to go to phase out palm oil, which is linked to rainforest destruction. Turning a blind eye to the problems with palm oil – from pushing orangutans to extinction in Indonesia to trashing rainforests and people’s rights in Africa – is not an option, especially when solutions to those problems are beginning to grow. We will continue to push Yum! Brands and other fast food restaurants to do more to end their part in deforestation. And if there is one thing that 2013 has made clear, it’s that your emails, tweets, Facebook posts and donations can help make even the biggest corporations change their tune. Thank you for all you made possible. Now let’s get back to work and do it again.  For the forests, Rolf Skar Greenpeace Forest Campaign Director