Showing posts with label forests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forests. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

5 Reasons a Tree Farm is Not a Forest

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This is a guest column by Brent Hardy of Extra Space Storage . On a recent trip to visit family in Georgia, I noticed a familiar illusion as...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

The New Treehuggers? Check my article on Triple Pundit about the Forest Footprint Disclosure's new report

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Here's an update on an article I published on Friday on Triple Pundit on a new report presenting the latest efforts of large corporatio...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

My article on Triple Pundit about the help SFI certification gets from Maine Governor Paul LePage

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Here's an update on a new article I published today on Triple Pundit with the latest news on the new battleground between SFI and FSC c...
Friday, September 16, 2011

SFI is losing another battle against FSC with seven companies deciding to stop using it

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ForestEthics announced earlier this week that seven companies, including five Fortune 500 companies has joined a growing corporate movement...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Greenpeace wants you to think how many trees it takes to make chopsticks next time you order Chinese food!

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Greenpeace launched last year a campaign in China to call attention to the urgent need for forest conservation in China. One of the main iss...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

Green news from the pulp and paper industry in North America

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I read two interesting stories this week with a promise for a better future for the forests and the paper industry in North America. The fir...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

Avoided Deforestation Partners wants to make living trees more profitable than dead ones

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"One ton of carbon dioxide is presently trading on European markets at about £10. A hectare of rainforest stores about 500 tons and the...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Is it a REDD Christmas? not really, not yet.

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Santa's red suit got me wondering if there's any kid out there who asked Santa to do something about the REDD mechanism and put life...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Everything you always wanted to know about forestry carbon credits - A special interview with Paulo Lopes of Carbon Clear

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Today the U.N. Climate Change Summit (COP15) gets underway and no matter how optimistic you are about these talks, I think it's an excit...
Monday, November 9, 2009

Is REDD going bad? Is it going to enable conversion of natural forests into industrial plantations?

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Last month we had a 3-part series on the potential and risks of forest-based carbon credits following the growing discussion about the Defo...
Monday, October 26, 2009

The potential and risks of Forest-based carbon offsets: part 3 - REDD: how it can actually work?

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On the first part on our series on forest-based carbon credits we talked of the potential of this concept as we saw on the example of Canop...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

The potential and risks of Forest-based carbon offsets: part 2 - Noel Kempff and the Greenpeace report

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On the first part of our series about forest-based carbon credits we talked about the potential of this model and presented the example of ...
Monday, October 19, 2009

The potential and risks of Forest-based carbon offsets: part 1 - the Carbon Canopy

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This week we're issuing a 3-part series that will cover one of the most interesting issues in the green market. It's getting more an...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

More on FSC on Green Talk Radio

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I love the Green Talk Radio with Sean Daily. He always brings interesting people of the green world to his show and it's a great way to...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Paying to keep the trees in the Amazon alive - it ain't that simple as it might look like

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We talked here many times about the concept of paying landowners to keep their trees standing and not cut them down. This idea is gaining mo...
Monday, June 29, 2009

Will the new Climate Bill help protecting forests or become a source of income for timber companies?

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The Climate bill passed in the House last Friday . It might not be only a new era in fighting climate change, but also the first time when i...