Publication archives

Oct 11, 2007

The Fight to Save Congo's Forests (Africa)

At the heart of central Africa's great rainforests lies Kisangani, a small city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) some 1,300 miles from the mouth of the Congo River. The town began as a Belgian trading post, Stanleyville, and was Conrad's model for Kurtz's inner station in Heart of Darkness.
Oct 11, 2007

Independent Research Finds FSC to be Most Effective Certification Option for Sustainable Forest Management

In a new report released October 4, 2007 Montreal-based management consultants EEM Inc. shows Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) to be the most effective certification system for achieving sustainable forest management in Canada. The report was released by environmental publishing advocates Markets Initiative.
Oct 11, 2007

Group looks at restoration of forest land (MT)

Since 2002, six of 11 Western states have set records for the amount of acreage burned in a single season. California has done it twice. That's despite the fact that California fields one of the largest fire departments in the world. Every year, the state spends $3.1 billion to fight wildfires. Welcome to what Jerry Williams calls the West's "new reality."
Oct 9, 2007

Green Chemistry Joins College Curriculum

Terry Collins sounds like the world's most dour pessimist. The Carnegie Mellon University chemistry professor paints a bleak picture of the Earth's future, a planet damaged by global warming and ravaged by toxins, with a population sickened by poisonous chemicals.
Oct 8, 2007

G110 Declaration on the Doha Round, 9 Oct 2007

Declaration by the ACP, African Group, NAMA11 and small and vulnerable economies (SVEs) on the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotatiations, reinforcing the development dimension of the Doha Round.
Oct 8, 2007

Radio Sustain: October 8, 2007

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R. Dennis Olson
Special U.S. Farm Bill issue: Daryll Ray, Dennis Keeney, David Wallinga and Dennis Olson all weigh in on the status of the 2007 Farm Bill.
Oct 4, 2007

Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands Approves Merger to Expand Harvest Practice Certification Throughout the Northeast (Maine)

On September 20, the Executive Board of the Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands (TCNF) voted to expand its pioneer efforts in the area of forest harvest practice certification in Maine to collaborate with and include similar efforts throughout the Northeast. States currently active in the collaborative effort are Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Oct 4, 2007

Forest Service withdraws plan to log owl habitat (OR)

The U.S. Forest Service agreed Tuesday to withdraw plans to log spotted owl habitat that burned last year in the Central Oregon section of the Cascade Range. The settlement came in a lawsuit brought by conservation groups opposing plans to log 190 acres of the Deschutes National Forest outside Sisters that burned in the Black Crater fire.