Publication archives

Mar 28, 2008

Private forest makes a nice tax shelter (WA)

Clearing a few trails and cleaning up storm damage was about all the Amber-Oliver family ever did to maintain their wooded 20 acres in Stanwood. That's changing after they signed up for a forest stewardship class that could potentially save them thousands and help them make their forested land healthier and more beautiful.
Mar 27, 2008

China regrets Australian probe into Chinese toilet paper

BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) - China's Ministry of Commerce voiced regret on Thursday over Australia's initiation of investigation into the alleged dumping and subsidizing of toilet paper imported from China.
Mar 25, 2008

This volunteer experience is brought to you by Wal-Mart, Cargill, Pepsi-Cola…

IATP Senior Fellow Mark Muller is working in a volunteer program in Honduras through July. He is blogging periodically on his experiences there.
Mar 23, 2008

The Emerging Water Crisis in the U.S.

by
Shiney Varghese
In the U.S. we are experiencing areas with too much water or outright drought. Each crisis gives us yet another opportunity to examine and challenge the issues we need to find solutions for: unfettered development, water intensive energy production, inefficient agricultural water use.
Mar 21, 2008

Tiny fly could aid the might hemlock (OR)

A tiny, exotic pest that is devastating forests of hemlock trees from the Carolinas to Maine has so far confounded scientists' efforts to check the destruction.
Mar 21, 2008

$6 million research lab will produce ethanol and other biofuels from grasses and biomass (NY)

A former agricultural engineering, power and machinery lab at Cornell is being gutted to make way for a state-of-the art Biofuels Research Laboratory that will convert perennial grasses and woody biomass into cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels and will occupy the entire east wing of Riley Robb Hall by January 2009.
Mar 20, 2008

Conference hears of need for clear rules on carbon (Canada)

In Indonesia, tropical forests are being levelled and replaced with palm oil plantations to produce eco-friendly biofuel. And in North America, research shows a forest that grows for 80 years to biologic maturity locks up less carbon than one harvested every 40 years on an economic rotation where the carbon is stored in building products.
Mar 20, 2008

One month to go before UNCTAD XII

In 2008, the United Nations (UN) has chosen to hold its major trade and development conference in Africa. Ministers from all around the world will meet in Accra, the capital of Ghana, starting April 20.