Dogwood Alliance, Inc.

The Dogwood Alliance is committed to protecting Southern forests from becoming another unsustainable energy resource. Dogwood Alliance has launched a major new campaign, Our Forests Aren't Fuel, supporting alternative and competitive energy sources like solar and wind while pressuring companies who stand to gain from this practice to put a stop to it. We're educating and activating citizens, policy makers and industry on both sides of the Atlantic to the dangers of this false energy solution.

Dogwood Alliance mobilizes diverse voices to protect the unique forests and communities of the Southern US from destructive industrial logging through grassroots action, holding corporate and government decision-makers accountable, catalyzing large-scale conservation and advancing a 21st century vision that fully values forests for the myriad ways in which they sustain life. Having transformed the practices of some of the largest corporations in the world, Dogwood is on the leading edge of international, national and regional efforts to advance environmental and social justice through forest protection in the US South.

We have a dedicated and talented staff with a wide range of skills, all focused on our mission. Protect Southern Forests. We all play different roles, have different strengths, support and encourage each other. We also have an excellent board and many community partners committed to our mission. We have staff focused on engaging with groups who oppose false biomass energy solutions to influence European policy makers, staff engaged with communities in South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina who work to amplify their voices and stand with them in opposition to when the biomass industry plans to expand their polluting and damaging factories.

We have transformed the practices of some of the largest consumers of paper in the world including Staples, Office Depot, OfficeMax, FedEx Office, United Stationers, Unisource, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Universal Music Group, Sony Home Entertainment, and, most recently, McDonald"s and KFC/YUM!Brands. We have convinced three of the top five paper producers (Domtar, Georgia-Pacific and Resolute) in the world"s largest paper producing region to change the way they do business in the woods, increasing protection for over 90 million acres of Southern forests. In 2007, working in partnership with Staples, we initiated the Carbon Canopy Project, an innovative collaborative of large consumers and producers of paper, forest landowners and conservation organizations working to expand forest conservation and FSC certification on private forestlands in the Southern US. In 2009, our work began to expand beyond addressing the impacts of paper production to address a new potential major threat — the burning of wood to produce energy as a replacement to fossil fuels.