Tag: Forestry - Page 4
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Ask Pablo: Is It Really Better To Recycle Paper?
Dear Pablo: I have a tough one for you: shall we recycle our paper? There are both the CO2 and the chemical aspects to consider, and there's arguments against recycling paper in each case.
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A Winding Path Gives a Bird's Eye View of an Urban Forest
"A Path in the Forest" is a 300' aerial walkway through a forest outside of Tallinn, Estonia's capital city.
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Winter Gardens Require a Special Kind of Gardening Knowledge
Dilettante gardeners love the spring and summer, real gardeners also love the winter.
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"The Lorax" is used to Hawk U.S. Forest Service "Discover the Forest" Campaign
The Truffula Trees from Dr Seuss' classic environmental tale -- soon to be a feature film -- inspired the new campaign.
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Massive Gnarled Tree Trunks Arrive at England's Oxford University
The eerie and mysterious traveling trees are part of the Ghost Forest Project, and will be touched by 101,000 English school childen.
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Derelict Docks in London Will be Transformed into "Pleasure Gardens" for the 2012 Olympics
The docks will be transformed into a 60,000 square meter waterfront park with wild and formal gardens, restaurants, cafes, art and cultural activities.
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Stay at Prince Charles' Historical Guest House in Romania
Kate and William didn't spend their honeymoon there, and Transylvania wasn't on the Lonely Planet's list of the 10 best places to go this year...but it's certainly on Prince Charles' radar.
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Dorchester Hotel Plants 80 Trees Around London for its 80th Anniversary
The favourite haunt of celebrities and royalty has teamed up with urban tree-planting charity Trees for Cities.
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand & Edward Norton Make the Case for Saving Our Forests in a Gorgeous Short Film
The short film "Of Men and Forests" pushes viewers to consider the threat facing the world's forests on a background of amazing images.
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In London Exhibit, Amazon Rainforest Photos Reveal Both Horror of Deforestation and Beauty of Unspoilt Regions
The exhibit promotes the Sky Rescue project, which aims to save one billion trees.
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Nitrogen Air Pollution is Fertilizing Tropical Forests
One more side-effect of air pollution that must be taken into account by scientists in their models and predictions.
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Breakthrough Technology Maps Rainforests In 3D, Including Carbon Storage
The technology from Carnegie Airborn University can map a forest from the air, detecting different species and even chemical compositions.
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Making Biofuels from West Coast Forests is a Bad Idea
A comprehensive study shows that turning forests into biofuels is not even carbon neutral in most scenarios.
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Whole Trees -- Pruned For Stunning Architecture & Better Forest Management (Photos)
Building with whole timber -- as opposed to milling it down into 'products' -- has lots of advantages, ranging from increased fire resistance (seems paradoxical but true), low embodied energy and carbon sequestration.
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20,000 People Allegedly Displaced in Uganda for UK Forestry Company's Carbon-Offset Program
With the spotlight turning this
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Rebecca Tarbotton on Pressuring and Inspiring the Opposition (Podcast)
The Rainforest Action Network tackles a whole lot more than rainforests, and Executive Director Rebecca Tarbotton is leading her organization to the front in a slew of fights. Her preferred tactic: "equal parts pressure and inspiration." To sway the
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Artist Andy Goldsworthy's 'Wood Line' Follows Rich History of San Francisco's Presidio Forest
More than a century ago, the U.S. Army began planting thousands of trees in San Francisco's Presidio as part of a massive forestation project, leaving a legacy of lush
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Building a Backwoods Getaway, Open to Anyone Who Can Find It (Video)
Whether built ten stories tall or to fit in a Brooklyn loft, tree houses are great getaways, where you can hide among branches and leaves, above the rest of the world. They're usually private places, but in the woods of Oregon, a
