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.
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. ...
Projected Global OTC Market for Forest Carbon Offsets to Hit $65 Million by 2015
The global forest carbon offset market is projected to grow from $42.0 million in 2010 to $65.1 million in 2015, according to the latest ...
Greenpeace: Sears, Best Buy, Other Big Brands ‘Failing Our Forests’
Sears, Best Buy, Toys R US, Home Depot, and Harlequin are "failing our forests" according to the “2010 Boreal Marketplace” annual report from Greenpeace.
The ...
LEED Rejects Alternative Wood Certification, Sticks With FSC
Wood approved by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) will continue to be the only lumber allowed in LEED-certified buildings, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) ...
Georgia-Pacific, Environmental Groups Partner to Protect Southern Forests
Georgia-Pacific (GP) has implemented a new forest policy that will save millions of acres of Southern Forests. The company says it will not purchase trees ...
In Packaging Sustainability, Half a Tree is Better than None
On my way to work every morning, I pass a tree which appears to have suffered a lightning strike, and I admit ...
How e-Invoicing Can Save a Small Forest
At many companies, accounts payable (AP) departments are responsible for processing invoices and interacting with suppliers, ranging from small “mom and pop” businesses ...
Burger King Dumps Palm Oil Supplier over Land-Use Practices
Burger King will no longer buy palm oil from Sinar Mas or its subsidiaries after an independent audit showed one of the company's subsidiaries, ...
