May is such a wonderful time of year. The beauty of nature unfolds in such abundance. Sometimes the best reminder to protect our planet happens when we get outside in these warmer months and connect with it. One of the world’s most well known organisations helping people witness, appreciate and protect wildlife is World Wildlife […]
Read Moreby Mike Tidwell, Executive Director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network There has been some confusion recently about a proposed piece of legislation in Annapolis called the “blackliquor bill” (HB 1102). Tragically, this bill came one vote shy of passing, even though it would have ended a huge loophole in state law forcing Maryland’s electricity ratepayers to give […]
Read MoreBy Todd Paglia, Executive Director of ForestEthics. Originally published on their blog, The Root Word. —- A phony logging industry “eco-certification” entity funded by Weyerhaeuser, Plum Creek, International Paper, Sierra Pacific and other US logging companies attempted last week to bully ForestEthics into silence. Sorry, SFI (the so-called Sustainable Forestry Initiative), we’re not going to stop […]
Read MoreAs a young man, there was a book that inspired me deeply. Reading it helped spark a personal transformation. I went from paralyzing information overload and eco-anxiety to raising my hand to volunteer to help create change. And from there, onto a path of leadership in advocacy for justice, public health and wild nature. The […]
Read MoreVancouver: Canopy, a leading forest conservation group, today announced its withdrawal from the once praised Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA), endorsed by forest industry and environmental groups to protect Canada’s Boreal forest. After almost three years since the agreement was announced, not one hectare of Canada’s Boreal forest has been protected. Canopy has determined more […]
Read MoreWe are delighted to welcome the Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB) into our network. Europe’s biggest environmental organisation, with more than a million members, the RSPB is dedicated to saving threatened birds and wildlife across the UK and overseas. It is part of the global partnership, Birdlife International, and its membership will undoubtedly […]
Read MoreOur paper efficiency project webinar, or ‘PEP talk’, was held successfully on Wednesday 10 April 2013, at 3pm. If you missed it you can see it online or download the slides here. There is an accompanying factsheet: Paper Utility Factsheet. Why not check out our other paper efficiency tools? Overview You know you need to […]
Read MoreToday marks a pinnacle moment in Dogwood’s campaign to protect Southern forests from the impacts of industrial forestry for paper production. Since our humble beginnings in 1996, Dogwood Alliance has been openly critical of the paper industry’s impact on Southern forests. After all, the South is the world’s largest paper-producing region. And at the forefront […]
Read MoreJakarta, Indonesia – The much-touted new deforestation policy of controversial paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) will save almost no forests in its main base of operations, Sumatra, Indonesia, a new report by NGO coalition Eyes on the Forest has concluded. APP and Sinar Mas announced the policy in February as “an end to […]
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