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The Urban Open Space Foundation, the group behind the development of Madison's Central Park, is changing its name and has landed a contract with the U.S. Forest Service to help cities across the nation revitalize their urban cores.

College of William and Mary professor J. Timmons Roberts sees a day when a landowner would get paid for the ecological value of leaving his forest stand rather than cutting it down.

Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced that the company is further strengthening its sustainable paper procurement practices by setting industry-leading goals to increase the percentage of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified paper and post-consumer waste (pcw) recycled paper it purchases.

n order to increase productivity, forest practices have become more intense in recent decades. Forest fertilization increased by 800% in the southeastern United States from 1990 to 1999, and the total acreage fertilized in the Southeast exceeds the forest area fertilized in the rest of the world.

Last night I had dinner at the Irish Embassy in Beijing. The occasion was the departure of Joseph Kahn, the New York Times bureau chief (and Irish citizen), who is moving to New York to work as Deputy Foreign Editor for the paper. I have known Joe since the early 1990s, and China’s loss is my gain, since his couch will now be added to my list of free places to stay in Manhattan.

(Below is the second in a series written from China by IATP President Jim Harkness. ed note)

One of the big dilemmas of Chinese agriculture is the issue of scale. Traditional farming was mostly carried out by individual households on very small plots of land.