Tag: Forestry - Page 9
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Help For Haiti Earthquake Aftermath. Giving Green.
Photos: Deforestation, (OGL Haiti) and Earthquake (AFP Twitpic) UPDATE There is a good post on Worldchanging about how to follow the Haitian earthquake online. "early reports suggest that thousands are likely to be reported dead. Major landmarks,
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Willie Smits on Regrowing the Indonesian Rainforest and Harvesting Biofuels
Image: Casajuntoalrio Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems
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Jane Goodall on Why She's REDD-Faced: Copenhagen's Big Market-Based Plan to Keep Forests Alive (Video)
Though it's likely to be lost in the bombast and disappointment around a messy framework, there may be at least one tangible result from the Copenhagen summit: REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, is essentially a
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ForestEthics' 2009 List of Naughty or Nice Catalog Culprits
ForestEthics reckon that American mailboxes are inundated with more than 100,000,000,000 pieces of junk mail annually. Such is the volume of US junk mail that it amounts to 33% of all mail delivered. Worldwide. Yet 44% is said to go in the bin
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Making Chairs. By Hand. With Greenwood. (Video)
Using 16th, 17th and 18th century hand tools, such as an adze, draw knife, spoke shave, side axe, and in-shave, Richard Hare crafts 100% handmade chairs and fine furniture. Even his pole lathe is human powered, as the
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From the Forums: Is Bamboo the Enemy?
outside the box has a problem with bamboo: Somewhere in Asia they are laughing their asses off,"Americans will buy anything if you just say it's green and
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Madagascar Legally Exports Illegally Logged Rosewood
A new poster jointly produced by researchers in Madagascar and the US graphically depicts how politically turmoil in Madagascar during 2009, coupled with poor political decisions have allowed for the legal export of illegally logged rosewood. Little is
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Forest Carbon Management: Let's Brainstorm The Trade-offs
Often lately when I post numbers, and especially if I offer a definitive analysis on climate, I get blasted by some of you data-drivens, and endure a few silly
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Google Launches Deforestation Tool to Make Trees More Valuable Alive Than Dead
Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, has launched a new way to monitor deforestation.
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Dell Ships Netbooks in Bamboo Packaging
Image: Dell Competition to be and look green in the personal computing industry is reaching a fever pitch. Debates rage over which companies are raising the bar and which are baiting and switching. Packaging, to be sure, is a big piece of the puzzle.
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October Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
Istanbul residents came out loud and strong this month as part of the
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Conclusions of the 2009 World Forestry Congress
Photo: Paula Alvarado. As we mentioned last week, from October 18 until 23 Buenos Aires was host of the XIII World Forestry Congress. With less than two months to Copenhagen, climate change in the center of political discussions, and forests being a
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WFC 2009: Zero Deforestation by 2020 a Utopia; Net Deforestation Reduction, not that Much
TreeHugger is at the World Forest Congress, which is taking place in Buenos Aires until October 23. With forests being a key element in the fight against climate change, deforestation taking 13 million hectares of native woods
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What Remains After the Continued Leveling of Appalachia
One of the most advanced eco-systems in the world is being systematically destroyed as we speak leaving behind more devastation than the Exxon Valdez and Three Mile Island
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Readers, Send Us Photos of Fall Foliage!
Did you hike amidst the maples in Maine's Acadia National Park? Watch the autumn colors of oak leaves in Ontario? Visit Vermont's birches and beeches for their biggest tourist
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Team Earth Uses Social Networking to Save Tropical Rainforests (Video)
Social networking and social media are proving to be among our most powerful tools for mobilizing people to action. Twitter has helped groups engage followers for good causes, such as charity: water's twestival,
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Eliminating Eucalyptus to Aid Ethiopia
Today Ethiopia is classified as having over 70% severe desertification, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). While there are several reasons, one major one is thanks
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17 Wooden Watercraft: from Ships to Surfboards (Slideshow)
When you consider that Earth's surface has been calculated to be over 70% water, and about 30% of the planet's dry land area is forested, it's easy to see why humankind has harnessed one resource to travel across another.
