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
- 08/22/08 - Non-Organic Companies Slammed for Destroying Rainforests to Source Palm Oil
- 08/19/08 - Big Green Groups Sell Out Forest Protection Activists in Idaho Struggle
- 08/14/08 - Corporations Become Prime Driver of Deforestation, Providing Clear Target for Environmentalists
- 08/12/08 - New Paths Toward the Loss of Our Public Lands
- 08/03/08 - The Oceanic Crisis: Capitalism and the Degradation of Marine Ecosystems
- 07/28/08 - The Forest Products Industry in Public Education
- 07/02/08 - Oil and Gas Drilling on Public Lands Reaches New High
- 06/16/08 - Steal a Tree Go to Prison; Steal a Forest Meet the President
- 06/02/08 - Is the Forest Stewardship Council Greenwashing Wood Products as Sustainable by Certifying Monoculture Tree Plantations?
- 05/31/08 - Destroying Nature: Libertarianism and Unregulated Free Markets
- 05/30/08 - Interference by Major Brazilian Soybean Producer Holds up Release of Deforestation Numbers
- 05/18/08 - Tropical Rainforests are Planet's Lungs
- 05/15/08 - Global Call to Stop the Planting of Genetically Engineered Trees
- 05/11/08 - Pine Beetles Ravage Canadian Forests: Toxic Synergy of Climate Change & Greedy Industrial Forest Practices
- 04/28/08 - Here's a Bad Idea: Biofuel Gas from Trees
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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