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Forestry management practices, from forest floor to paper manufacturing, can have a significant effect climate. Sustainable, climate-conscious forestry represents a complex, interlocking system of ecological and environmental considerations that can impact such critical issues as maintaining forest health and productivity, safeguarding biological diversity, preventing industrial pollution and adapting to climate change.
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The third annual report on how companies are disclosing their impacts on the world's forests ranks global leaders by sector.
The third annual review from the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project finds that many more big companies are starting to measure and report their forest-related impacts and risks, but Big Oil as an...
The Victoria's Secret catalogs are known for stirring up many thoughts, but forest preservation usually isn't the first one that comes to mind -- though ForestEthics thinks it should be.
The second full day of the 2011 Greenbuild conference brought a steady flow of news, with Marriott Hotels earning LEED volume certification for three of its brands, a challenge to the USGBC's 2012...
ForestEthics ranks credit card, telecom and insurance companies on their paper use and policies.
In its more than 25 years of existence, The Conservation Fund has applied an agile, entrepreneurial model to buying and conserving ecosystems, while also leaving space for economic activity in...
The new feature on the company's website allows customers to see the environmental impact of their orders and learn about what it takes to make paper.
Wildfires in the U.S. are growing larger and more severe, and preventative measures aren't cheap. Can carbon money come to the rescue?
The Alliance for Green Heat wants the U.S. to take a hard look at wood, a low-cost and low-carbon way to heat homes.
Activists from the Rainforest Action Network are targeting The Walt Disney Company for a slack paper-buying policy that allows children's books to be printed from rainforest-destroying pulp.
The war over wood product certification labels may be raging among forestry and green building advocates but the White House is trying to steer clear of the controversy in staging its annual...
The new Guide to Corporate Ecosystem Valuation (CEV) helps companies understand the benefits of the ecosystem services their companies depend on.
The chief executive of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative responds to the latest developments in the controversy over rival certification standards for the sourcing of wood and paper products.
With its first combined CSR report, the American Forest and Paper Association aims to boost the industry's paper recovery and recycling rates while cutting emission and increasing energy...
With this week's news of seven major companies dropping their support for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, a war of words has heated up between SFI and the Forest Stewardship Council, the...
The controversy over wood certifications standards fired up again today with an announcement from the advocacy group ForestEthics that Office Depot, Symantec, wholesale business products...
New Leaf Paper and Office Depot will soon take consumers on a virtual carbon trail of New Leaf's 100 percent recycled paper in hopes of encouraging them to think and act sustainably.
The Forest Footprint Disclosure's second Annual Review singled out the Drax Group, J Sainsbury Plc, Marks and Spencer, and British Airways for their work proactively addressing the business risks...
After a lengthy and contentious review, members of the U.S. Green Building Council -- the organization behind the LEED rating system -- rejected a proposal that would have opened the door to wood...
Deforestation and outdated farming methods combined generate more than 30 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, which is why financing mechanisms aimed at tackling both are hot topics as UN...
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