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1Center for a New American Dream calculation from Conservatree and U.S. Forest Service statistics.
2Environmental Defense Paper Calculator.
3ForestEthics, "Robbing the Carbon Bank," 2007.
4Calculation based on statistics from Natural Resources Canada. http://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca.
5Delft Hydraulics Peat Study, 2006, p. 3.
6Delft Hydraulics Peat Study, 2006, p. 3.
7Heiman, Marilyn. “Destructive logging cuts birds' survival,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 11th, 2005.
8The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, embassyofindonesia.org.
9United States Postal Service (USPS). "The Household Diary Study: Mail Use & Attitudes in FY2006." March, 2007, pp.1.
10Ibid, USPS. March, 2007, calculation from pp. 1 & 3.
11Ibid, USPS. March, 2007, pp.1
12Ibid, USPS. March, 2007, calculation from pp. 7 and pp. 36.
13Abramovitz, Janet. “Junk Mail Research—Report of Initial Findings.”
May 24, 2006. Data sources include: USPS Annual Reports, USPS Household
Diary Studies, USPS Strategic Transformation Plan, Direct Marketing
Association (DMA) Statistical Factbook (various years), DMA Response
Rate Report (various years), DMA Economic Impact Report (various years).
1441pounds.org: http://41pounds.org/impact/default.asp.
15Swenson, Richard. Margins: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial,
and Time Reserves to Overlaoded Americans. Navpress Publishing Group.
March 1995.
16Ibid, USPS. March 2007, pp 20 & 37.
17Ibid, Abramovitz.
18ForestEthics calculation from Environmental Defense Paper Calculator and USPS statistics from report mentioned above.
19Native Forest Network, http://www.nativeforest.org/stop_junk_mail/nfn_junk_mail_guide.htm.
20Center for a New American Dream calculation from EPA and National Solid Waste Association statistics.
21United States Environmental Protection Agency Municipal Solid Waste Report 2006 http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/pubs/06data.pdf.
22DNM news:” Direct mail faces year of reckoning” http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/print-production/39619.html.
23National Poll Commissioned by the Center for a New American Dream
and conducted from September 13-16, 2007 by Zogby International. The
survey was administered by phone to 1011 likely voters nationwide.
Findings from the survey have a margin of error of +/- 3.1%.
24Ibid, National Poll Commissioned by the Center for a New American Dream
and conducted from September 13-16, 2007 by Zogby International.
