Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
To help consumers learn more about sustainable forestry, and ideally make better decisions when purchasing items derived from forestry products, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has launched a new microsite designed to explain the raison d’être of sustainable forestry, SFI governance and basic principles, and the meaning of the SFI ...Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Over at Dead Tree Edition, our friend Mr. Tree (if that is his name) turns the microphone over to Frank Locantore, Project Director of the Green America Better Paper Project, to discuss the highlights of a new study (pdf) commissioned by the National Geographic Society and conducted by Environ that ...Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
Here’s a good question for your next cocktail party: how many chopsticks can you get one tree? Turns out, the answer is 4,000, but as this article in the Washington Post last week pointed out, that’s not enough to keep up with the demand for disposable chopsticks, which consumes up ...Monday, March 18th, 2013
WhatTheyThink’s Going Green has joined forces with Two Sides to help address the “perceptions” that paper destroys forests, that electronic media are “greener” than print and paper, and that recycling is the solution to all environmental ills. “Whose woods these are I think I know...” Well, maybe not. According to a ...Monday, February 11th, 2013
WhatTheyThink’s Going Green has joined forces with Two Sides to help address the “perceptions” that paper destroys forests, that electronic media are “greener” than print and paper, and that recycling is the solution to all environmental ills. Over at Two Sides UK, a link to a short paper from a Stanford ...Thursday, February 7th, 2013
As they say, “take only pictures and leave only footprints.” As for the former, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has announced that they are now accepting entries for the 2013 SFI Forestry Photo Contest, open to professional, amateur, and pro-am photographers. Awards will be given in six categories: Biodiversity Conservation (must be ...Monday, February 4th, 2013
WhatTheyThink’s Going Green has joined forces with Two Sides to help address the “perceptions” that paper destroys forests, that electronic media are “greener” than print and paper, and that recycling is the solution to all environmental ills. Via Two Sides UK, WWF’s new Living Forests Report says, in part, “By 2050, ...Monday, December 3rd, 2012
WhatTheyThink’s Going Green has joined forces with Two Sides to help address the “perceptions” that paper destroys forests, that electronic media are “greener” than print and paper, and that recycling is the solution to all environmental ills. A 2009 study found that, in the Western U.S. alone, “tree mortality rates have ...Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
No, not from the print and paper industries—but from drought conditions brought on by climate change. As the New York Times Green blog points out, there is mounting evidence that forest die-backs—tree deaths—result from “hydraulic failure,” or the inability for a tree to get enough water. That is, drought or ...
