Archive for the 'forests' Category

Indonesia’s Forests Are Burning

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Indonesia’s forests are burning. In the movie Burning Season, which showed yesterday at the DC Environmental Film Festival, you see fires destroying massive swaths of land—as much as 72% of their forests have already been lost. Watch some clips from the Q&A yesterday: When Europeans colonized the US, they immediately began removing forests to clear [...]

Kimberly-Clark Announces Major Victory for Forests this week

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Kimberly-Clark has set a goal to source all of its paper goods from sustainably-forested or recycled wood. That means the next time you buy any paper product from them—even their flagship brand Kleenex—you’ll know that even trees can get victories these days. Here are the details: By the end of 2011, Kimberly-Clark will ensure that [...]

Saving Rainforests and the REDD Program

Friday, July 24th, 2009

An article published in Mongabay goes deep into the international issues surrounding REDD, or “reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation,” a program that seeks to make forests economically valuable as living entities. The shocking image to the right shows deforestation-induced erosion in Madagascar from October 2004. Without a plan to stop the deforestation of our [...]

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