Historical Perspective on Deforestation... and Chopsticks
by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada 
on 09.25.06
While old-style broadcast journalism is mostly a one-way street, the new media is more of a conversation, and that's one of the things that make it great. That's why we're happy to see that our friends at Mental Floss have decided to bounce off our old post about chopsticks (it's a classic) and use it as a launching pad for this great post about the history of deforestation, from 6000 BC to the 2004 Nobel Prize. Check it out, you might learn a few things. ::D’forest for d’trees
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