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Tag Archives: Deforestation
iPads and Kindles are better for the environment than books? Come again?
Brian Palmer (aka Slate’s Green Lantern) writes that “iPads and Kindles are better for the environment than books.” If the Lantern has taught you anything, it’s that most consumer products make their biggest scar on the Earth during manufacture and … Continue reading
Posted in Forestry, Sustainability, Technology
Tagged Deforestation, ebook readers, ebooks, eReaders, Forestry, Sustainability, Technology, The illusion of preservation
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Deforestation: causes and cures
Cute, clever, incorrect. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations’s Forest Resource Assessment for 2005 uses the word “alarming” 20 times to describe the trend lines for deforestation. And, a commonplace inference is that forests are rapidly … Continue reading
Sounding the alarmed, are the world’s forests 80% fragmented?
Ignorance is the parent of fear” – Herman Melville Willful Sturm und Drang A statement crafted to alarm you: “…80 percent of the world’s intact forests are already gone.” – Tzeporah Berman, co-founder of ForestEthics. But it could have come … Continue reading
Posted in Forestry
Tagged AGW, anthropogenic global warming, Climate Change, Deforestation, Forestry, The illusion of preservation
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You’re pulling my Yang. Ten dead-on reasons for using dead tree stuff.
Some anti-logging activists have latched onto a fact like mistletoe on a branch; it looks green but it’s hurting the trees rather than helping. The fact: Trees remove carbon dioxide from the air, and via photosynthesis combine the CO2 with … Continue reading
Posted in Forestry
Tagged AGW, anthropogenic global warming, Climate Change, Deforestation, environment, Forestry, Sustainability, The illusion of preservation, WTF
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California’s Deforestation Due to Wildfire
This is a map of the National Forests in California. These forests comprise about half of the forestland in California. The Forest Service graphic below shows the results of the 2000-2009 fire season in California. About 1% of California’s fires … Continue reading