Forests

Encouraging news in Bolivia

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Here’s a report about a cross-governmental program called REDD that is actually working. There are issues, naturally, but this process of becoming conscious and changing our habits/viewpoints is going to be tough as we know. Article

Deforestation in SE Asia caused by logging

Monday, March 31st, 2008

I’ve been trying to find some good news to post, but alas have not run across anything worthy.Here is a good article on the major causes of destruction of tropical forests in Asia. excerpt: according to the UN’s Economics and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP), “Logging is undoubtedly the primary cause of degradation and indirectly [...]

Measuring a forest ‘breath’

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

A local scientific study of a pine forest’s carbon ‘respiration’. A small part of the concept that our planet is a living-breathing organism in the bigger universal sense. from chiefengineer.org

Contradictory goals in Bali sounds familiar

Friday, February 1st, 2008

It seems as though there are other countries whose politics and business goals seem to be at loggerheads with one another. In the downhill run to catch up with the runaway train of traditional capitalism, our human-centered political rickshaws have got to stop stumbling. Here’s a very thorough treatise on some of the issues that polarize. http://www.redpepper.org.uk/article1008.html

Don’t forget the Rainforests

Friday, February 1st, 2008

It seems as though the once-dear campaign for rainforest consciousness and conservation has quietly been labeled “not important” by people. Certainly the media. Here’s a great post about the need to keep this still-very-alarming phenomenon close to the lens: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-there-is-a-way-to-save-the-rainforests-776113.html

Confirmed: Deforestation Plays Critical Climate Change Role

Friday, January 4th, 2008

From earlier last year, an important study that confirms what our common sense already knows: New research confirms that avoiding deforestation can play a key role in reducing future greenhouse gas concentrations. Scientists report in the journal Science that tropical deforestation releases 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon each year into the atmosphere.Read more