Comments on: Shareholders to Weyerhaeuser: Wake Up.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:19:13 +0000

This is a nation-wide problem. The need for lumber is outrageous. I remember as a child growing up in South East Oklahoma, “Quachita National Forest”, all the forest was so thick and the trees grew all the way to the edge of the road and it was so nice. I never go back home anymore due to the fact of there is very little forest left. Back in the day a logging company had to leave trees a distance from streams well, now they cut everything. Before to long it will be the “Quachita National Desert”. There has been a horrible strain on the local wildlife, this is a fact, this can be seen in the population drop from reptiles to mammals due to the fact of the destruction of habitat. The local forestry department is a joke and always has been. Drawing a check is all it amounts to. I hate it, Alot of memories is all we have now of the area.

By: sheera macfarlane

sheera macfarlane — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:50:08 +0000

Happy New Year iLevel Employees
With yesterday’s weyerhaeuser annoucement that 141 people would be layed off from the weyerhaeuser ilevel plant here in Kenora, ontario, Canada , 41 permenently and the rest will have to wait and see as there is no timeline as to when they will start up again. I guess one could safely say that the line of crap that flowed from VP of Strand technologies Mr. Denning’s mouth prior to christmas was just that, CRAP. It would seem that weyerhaeuser just woke up on the morning of January 8th and decided to lay-off all these people considering that he asked the community not to talk about things they did not know, several weeks before christmas ie. layoffs and closures. The way that this plant has been run from the start is no great surprise to many of us and one would have to surmise that weyerhaeuser will contine to steal, lie and destroy our planet. The only “green” thing weyerhaeuser cares about is the ink on their currency. The good thing about this layoff is that they will stop spewing their toxic waste into the air. I urge anyone who is either building a home or designing one for someone else to avoid not just iLevel products but anything weyerhaeuser produces. This is not an ethical corporation and if the shareholders had half a brain the would pull out and invest in an ethical company.

By: Brant

Brant — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:40:53 +0000

Dani, Check out http://www.freegrassy.org for more information and pictures.

By: dani

dani — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:04:09 +0000

im studying this as a progect and i find it verey interresting would you beable to send me pictures and more infomation on this subject

By: Jeffery Cuppy

Jeffery Cuppy — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:39:10 +0000

The Firm I am with has hired me specifically to develope “green” practices in our firm. This is no easy task as we are classical with a capital “C”. We have taken the stance that all buildings can be designed and built in an ecologically sound manner, without regard to typology or style. We want our clients and the rest of the world to live in a healthy environment and in a healthy home. This article has helped me see through the “green washing” Weyerhaeuser is doing and allowed us to keep on the proper path to our objectives. Architects are on the front lines in this fight and we need to continually educate ourselves about products and where they come from. Jeffery Cuppy

By: Judith Maron

Judith Maron — Thu, 25 May 2006 16:42:47 +0000

Even though I did not attend this meeting I felt compelled to comment as I beleive that we all have a stake in these matters of our environmental health. I agree with Bonnie Swain’s scenario about those “steeling” trees from private lands as it happened to me on a piece of property I own in Florida. Since I have been living in the PNW I have been saddened and even sickened by the acceleration of clear cutting that has been going on including, now, in our national forests. How much of this is Weyerhauser responsible for as it seems I see so many of there signs right up against these forests stating that they have planted trees in these areas? And, why is it that the folks with the most money gained from these actions seemingly resist in taking responsibility for their actions?

By: Chris Dougherty

Chris Dougherty — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:23:10 +0000

I am an architect in New Jersey who is looking to be more involved with Sustainable design. This was a very eye opening article about Weyerhauser. I wihs you luck on these endeavors.