Tag: Forestry - Page 10
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Amazon Deforestation Drops 46% In One Year
Despite the fact that logging rates in the Amazon skyrocketed in June, the figures put out by the Deforestation Detection in Real Time (DETER) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) say that it looks
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New Study Finds Kindle Greener Than the Printed Word
(Image: Geekbrief)The battle, no doubt, will rage on for some time over which is greener, e-books or the printed stuff. A new item of evidence, however, has been submitted: a report by the Cleantech Group has concluded that in a spine-to-spine lifecycle
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India Goes For Tree Planting Guinness World Record
I've never really been on to go in for Guinness World Record attempts, but this one's pretty cool: The UNEP highlights the latest effort to go down in history as having planted
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USDA Proposes 'BioPreferred' Label for Biobased Products
Wish there was a label for sustainable bio-based products? Well sit
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The Heat is On: Summer Fires Rage in Mediterranean
This summer has been literally blazing in Southern Europe, where forest fires in France,
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Talk About Old-School: New Study Shows the Mayans were Environmentalists 3,000 Years Ago
Photo: Flickr, CC They Practiced Forest Conservation for a While Young environmentalists might think "old school green" means hippies from the 1960s, but that's actually quite recent compared to what the Mayans were doing 3,000 years ago. A new study
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Moon Trees Commemorate Apollo 14 Space Flight
With a name like TreeHugger, how can we not write about moon trees? Don't run for the plant dictionary yet because they won't be in it. Moon trees is the name given to the trees grown from seeds that were taken to the moon on
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Will Barcoding Trees Save Tropical Forests? (Video)
In tropical forests across South America, Africa and Southeast Asia, over a million hardwood trees have had plastic barcodes hammered into them, with the hope that IDing the trees will help with sustainable forestry
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Repaying a Sultan By Replanting a Forest
One of Istanbul residents' favorite green spots, the Belgrad Forest northeast of the city, was--or so the story goes--burned down by Sultan Mahmut II in the late 1820s to flush out escaped members of the mutinous
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Hot Topic in Turkey: Forest-Fire Prevention
Summer is when Istanbul flings open its doors, when restaurants sweep off their rooftop
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GreenWood: Forestry Management Meets Skilled Craft to Create Sustainable Livelihoods
During my time in Ecuador in 2007, apart from reporting on Kallari chocolate, and interviewing Daryl Hannah and David de Rothschild, I also reported on EcoMadera, a company working hard to promote responsible forestry
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Put a (Wine) Cork in it!
Image Source: CorkTruck.com Dear Pablo: It seems that alternatives to traditional bottle corks are gaining in popularity but are they a more eco-friendly option?Today you can find wine closures ranging from the traditional cork to synthetic corks and
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Twittering for Trees and World Environment Day
Twitter is getting to be a great resource for charities and eco-activism, proven by the success of charity:water's twestival, earthtweet, and tweeting congress. Here's another great chance to use Twitter as a force of good. Plant
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Discovery Communications Founder John Hendricks Elected New Chairman of the National Forest Foundation
John Hendricks, the NFF's Chief Kimbell and Secretary Tom Vilsack. Photo courtesy Discovery Communications. Discovery Communications is loaded with tons of talented, bright minds (wink, wink) so it’s no surprise really that its founding father and
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Welsh Affordable Housing Concept Set to Be 'Overnight' Success
The idea, whether strictly legal or not, that land can be claimed by building a dwelling on it under cover of night is apparently shared by Turkey and Wales. Known as gecekondu, or "settled
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Shrinking Forests: The Many Costs
In early December 2004, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo "ordered the military and police to crack down on illegal logging, after flash floods and
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Greenpeace vs Kleenex: More Than a Feeling (Video)
Greenpeace Spoofs Kleenex Ads When I wrote about Greenpeace's assertion that soft toilet roll may be worse than Hummers, the post attracted a good deal of traffic. But of course it's not just folks wiping their butts on ancient forest that we have to
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The Rainforest Alliance Keeps Growing (Literally) Despite Recession
Rainforest living up to its name. Photo: Flickr, CC. When it Comes to Forests, Growth is Good A lot of companies and organizations are making fewer and smaller investments because of the current economic recession, so it's good to hear that despite that
