Forest Issues
"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." -Gandhi
Headlines
- 07/26/10 - Herbicide Spray Raises Concerns in Shirley Area
- 07/09/10 - Walmart Among Top Brands Blamed for Rainforest Harm
- 07/08/10 - Court Asked to Stop Planting of Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Trees
- 06/10/10 - Call on Office Depot, Office Max and Staples to Reject Paper from Genetically Engineered Trees!
- 05/21/10 - What Brands Can Learn From Greenpeace's Viral Campaign Against Nestlé
- 05/20/10 - Forest Activists Denounce Corruption of Forest Stewardship Council's Sustainability Label
- 05/18/10 - Nestle Announces it Will Stop Using Ingredients like Palm Oil that Drive Deforestation
- 05/11/10 - Nature Loss 'to Damage Economies'
- 05/05/10 - New Report: Cargill's Problems With Palm Oil
- 04/27/10 - Can Biochar Help Save the World?
- 04/05/10 - Nestle Drops Palm Oil Supplier Destroying Rainforest in Indonesia
- 04/02/10 - What’s Killing the Great Forests of the American West?
- 03/23/10 - A Deforestation-Based Diet: Seven Foods That Are Destroying the World's Forests
- 03/16/10 - Seeing the Forest Through the Trees
- 02/10/10 - Palm Oil Deal 'A Threat to the Rainforest'
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GNA Platform
Press the politicians to support:
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A ban on unsustainable logging on U.S. public lands and in tropical rainforests, and a restoration of carbon sequestering wetlands and forests.
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An immediate and ongoing crash program to convert the U.S. economy to clean energy, implement major energy conservation measures, and transfer clean energy technologies to other major greenhouse gas producing nations, so as to drastically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Featured Website
The Faceless Ones -This melodramatic mini-film navigates it's way from the Exxon-Valdez to Pontius Pilate and back to old-growth forests with a linguistic flair.
The Lorax