Forests
Forests includes up-to-date articles on forests, forest policy, deforestation, and sustainable forestry products. We examine industry efforts to reduce paper use through recycling and through the growth of electronic documentation.
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Yellowstone Clean-Up Plan, Horizontal Drilling, Sewer Debt
The Environmental Protection Agency has given Exxon Mobil until July 17 to revise its Yellowstone River remediation work plan to change how the company ...
Body Shop Sustainability Leader Discusses FSC
Interview with Simon Henzell-Thomas, Head of Sustainability, Body Shop International at the FSC General Assembly 2011.
Weyerhaeuser Absolute CO2 Down, Intensity Up Since 2000
Weyerhaeuser has reduced its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent since 2000, but its GHG intensity increased by about 20 percent ...
Mattel Bows to Greenpeace Pressure on APP Packaging
Mattel has pledged to create a sustainable procurement policy and directed suppliers to put a freeze on purchases from Asia Pulp & Paper, ...
Conservation International Discusses Carbon Market Opportunities, Challenges
Conservation International Executive VP Jennifer Morris sees interesting opportunities in the area of forest carbons, which are emissions released from ...
Earth Day Briefing: 3M, Macy’s, Office Depot, Lowe’s
Companies have been announcing environmental initiatives left, right and center this week (and that's on top of the selection we already ran last ...
Honest Tea to Plant 50,000 Trees
Honest Tea is partnering with the National Forest Foundation to plant 50,000 trees for the "Bag to Tree" campaign, which ...
Real Sustainability Isn’t a Coin-Toss
We must preserve the rainforest and support economic opportunity for the world’s poor. It’s shocking when anyone suggests that emerging ...
Paper Companies to Cut GHGs 15% by 2020, Raise Recycling to 70%
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) has announced goals to increase the paper recycling rate to over 70 percent and reduce greenhouse gas emissions ...
Allstate, Office Depot, Five Others to Drop Sustainable Forestry Label
Aetna, Allstate and five other companies have made commitments to stop using the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) eco-label, a non-profit has announced.
ForestEthics said ...
Luminant Tree Plantings at Mining Sites Top 30m
Luminant is planting more than 1,426,300 seedlings at mining sites, the power company has announced.
The latest plantings, including pines, oaks, dogwoods and mulberries, will ...
McDonalds to Buy Only Certified Palm Oil by 2015; Unveils Initiative for Beef, Coffee
McDonald’s has committed to source only palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil by 2015, the company has announced.
The goal is part ...
Kellogg’s to Back All Palm Oil With Green Certificates, in Industry First
Kellogg Company has become the first U.S. food company to back 100 percent of its global palm oil use with certificates designed to reduce ...
Staples Launches Rainforest Alliance Paper
Staples is launching its first brand of paper certified by the Rainforest Alliance.
The line of paper, Domtar EarthChoice Office Paper by Staples, will be ...
Paper Company UPM Cuts Electricity and Heat Use
UPM has cut its electricity and heat consumption by about nine percent per paper ton in the past two years, the €8.9 billion timber, ...
Sime Darby Proposes African Palm Oil Plantations
Sime Darby, the world’s largest public palm oil producer, has proposed a $2.5 billion plantation that it says will meet high environmental standards.
Mohd ...
Palm Oil Giant Agrees to Protect Forests
The world’s second-largest palm oil company has agreed a standard for conservation of Indonesian forests and peatlands, according to non-profit The Forest Trust (TFT).
TFT ...
Coca-Cola Signs Waste Pledge; Biofuels Fail Standards; Forests to be Leased
Coca-Cola, Kraft and Procter & Gamble are among the latest companies to join voluntary U.K. pledges to reduce packaging and waste.
The companies signed the ...
10 Trends Driving Action on Climate Change in 2011
Nobody expects the incoming Congress to take dramatic action on climate change, just as nobody was surprised that the international leaders meeting in Cancun ...
Initiatives to Reduce Paper Use, Improve the Bottom Line
This is the time of year when many contemplate New Year’s resolutions, and “How I can be better tomorrow” plans and promises. ...
