Sample Letter

Ask your favorite magazine to switch to Better Paper!  You can find the publisher's name and the magazine's address in the magazine masthead or by visiting their web sites. We've provided the following templates to help you articulate the importance of environmental paper to subscription, newsstand, alumni and association mags.

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Dear              ,

I’ve subscribed to               since              , and I'm always glad to receive it in the mail. This past issue, I flipped to the masthead to determine if the magazine was printed on environmentally responsible paper, and was dismayed to find neither a percent recycled footnote nor an FSC logo.

As an environmentally conscious consumer, I prefer to spend my money on magazines that work to minimize their environmental impact—and with the growing number of magazines that regularly print on recycled paper, it's becoming easier and easier for me to find magazines that fit that bill. Some of my favorite recycled paper titles include              ,              , and              . It is heartening that these magazines recognize the pressures they are placing on our forests and have taken steps to reduce their footprints. I hope that I can count on your magazine to at least investigate the possibility of switching to recycled paper.

The Better Paper Project of Green America can help you in this process by providing free technical assistance and research tools to aid your exploration of environmentally responsible paper options. Please visit www.BetterPaper.org to read about how you can make the switch to recycled paper and sustainable production processes.

With the simple action of visiting a Web site, you can start on a path that will dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions while preserving our rapidly shrinking forests!

Sincerely,

Dear              ,

For years I have enjoyed picking up               at the  grocery store / bookstore / newsstand , but it wasn't until this past issue that it occurred to me to flip to the masthead to determine if the magazine was printed on environmentally responsible paper. I was dismayed to find neither a percent recycled footnote nor an FSC logo.

As an environmentally conscious consumer, I prefer to spend my money on magazines that work to minimize their environmental impact—and with the growing number of magazines that regularly print on recycled paper, it's becoming easier and easier for me to find magazines that fit that bill. Some of my favorite recycled paper titles include              ,              , and              . It is heartening that these magazines recognize the pressures they are placing on our forests and have taken steps to reduce their footprints. I hope that I can count on your magazine to at least investigate the possibility of switching to recycled paper.

The Better Paper Project of Green America can help you in this process by providing free technical assistance and research tools to aid your exploration of environmentally responsible paper options. Please visit www.BetterPaper.org to read about how you can make the switch to recycled paper and sustainable production processes.

With the simple action of visiting a Web site, you can start on a path that will dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions while preserving our rapidly shrinking forests!

Sincerely,

Dear              ,

I'm a(n)               graduate, class of              . I'm always happy to receive  alumni magazine title , so I can read about the inspiring things my fellow graduates are doing across the country and around the world. This past issue, I flipped to the masthead to determine if the magazine was printed on environmentally responsible paper, and was dismayed to find neither a percent recycled footnote nor an FSC logo.

As an environmentally conscious consumer, I try to spend my money on magazines working to minimize their environmental impact, so it makes me uncomfortable that my alumni magazine doesn't fit that bill. Printing on recycled paper reduces your water, energy, and virgin fiber consumption, which makes it an easy way to limit waste and pollution, while protecting forests. I hope that I can count on my alma mater to carefully consider its impact on climate and forests and at least investigate the possibility of switching to recycled paper.

The Better Paper Project of Green America can help you in this process by providing free technical assistance and research tools to aid your exploration of environmentally responsible paper options. Please visit www.BetterPaper.org to read about how you can make the switch to recycled paper and sustainable production processes.

With the simple action of visiting a Web site, you can start on a path that will dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions while preserving our rapidly shrinking forests!

Sincerely,

Dear              ,

I’ve been a member of               since              , and I'm always glad to receive  association magazine title  in the mail. This past issue, I flipped to the masthead to determine if the magazine was printed on environmentally responsible paper, and was dismayed to find neither a percent recycled footnote nor an FSC logo.

As an environmentally conscious consumer, I try to spend my money on magazines working to minimize their environmental impact, so it makes me uncomfortable that an association I belong to prints a magazine that doesn't fit that bill. Printing on recycled paper reduces your water, energy, and virgin fiber consumption, which makes it an easy way to limit waste and pollution, while protecting forests. I hope that I can count on  association magazine title  to at least investigate the possibility of switching to recycled paper.

The Better Paper Project of Green America can help you in this process by providing free technical assistance and research tools to aid your exploration of environmentally responsible paper options. Please visit www.BetterPaper.org to read about how you can make the switch to recycled paper and sustainable production processes.

With the simple action of visiting a Web site, you can begin on a path that will dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions while preserving our rapidly shrinking forests!

Sincerely,