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Cecilia Martinez, Senior Policy Fellow with IATP's Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy, speaks at IATP's climate justice event in October 2010.

New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn today announced "FoodWorks New York," a new effort by the city council to produce a comprehensive plan to use the city’s food system to create jobs, improve public health and protect the environment.

While we can't say we've ever seen a forest we didn't think was beautiful, certain forests around the world are known to cause jaw-dropping, picture-snapping, and spontaneous philosophizing.Huffington Post

A new study has found that while some countries have expanded their forest cover in recent decades, it has been at the expense of poorer neighbouring countries.ABC Science (Australia)

Many imminent problems facing the world today, such as deforestation, overfishing, or climate change, can be described as 'commons problems.' The solution to these problems requires cooperation from hundreds and thousands of people. Such large scale cooperation, however, is plagued by the infamous cooperation dilemma.

Dovetail Partners has initiated a project to evaluate and quantify the carbon storage benefits of products made from urban trees. The project is supported through a grant awarded by the Wood Education and Resource Center, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, U.S. Forest Service.Dovetail Partners, Inc.