Greenpeace Art at Book Expo in New York

To tell an important story about forests and free speech, Greenpeace teamed up with artist Pamela Paulsrud, one of the creators of Treewhispers, to bring her installation to Greenpeace’s booth at the Book Expo of America. Has a tree ever inspired, energized, calmed or protected you? When we stop and reflect, most of us have at least one happy memory associated with trees. These are the stories that artist Pamela Paulsrud (and the late Marilyn Sward) spent the past 17 years collecting, to create the unique installation, Treewhispers.

These are the stories Greenpeace is sharing at BookExpo – the most important publishing industry gathering of the year – to highlight a serious threat to the ancient trees of the boreal forest. A company in Canada, called Resolute Forest Products, has been cutting down ancient parts of the forest -- acre by acre. And now the company is suing Greenpeace offices for hundreds of millions of dollars, in an attempt to stop us from speaking out against its destructive practices.