Swedish forests grow by a total of 110 million cubic metres a year, and the net reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a result of Swedish forestry and wood production, is 60 million metric tons a year.
This is equivalent to the entire carbon dioxide emissions for the whole of the...
Feb
23
In the dry climate of southern Spain’s agricultural cork belt near Seville, a German couple are trying to turn back the clock to a traditional way of farming.
In 1996, Hans-Gerd Neglein and Ernestine Lüdeke bought a 600-hectare (1483 acres) cork and livestock farm, in a bid to create a...
Feb
21
By Michael Grabell – ProPublica
This story was adapted from “Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History” which will be published Tuesday by PublicAffairs.
A common criticism of President Obama’s $800...
Jan
31
The previously profiled beach cleaners, Danielle and Sara, led me to Mark Armen, who’s doing something so cool with his business degree that I had to write about it.
Incidentally, this train of people I’ve been profiling – Sara telling me about Danielle telling me about Mark –...
Jan
17
Part IV in a series exploring the potential impact of NuStar Energy’s proposed oil terminal expansion on the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius.
Part I: Tarnish on the Golden Rock: Will the Tiny Caribbean Isle of St. Eustatius Surrender to Oil Multinationals?
Part II: Residents fear the...
Jan
02
Every day, we use materials from the earth without thinking, for free. But what if we had to pay for their true value: would it make us more careful about what we use and what we waste? Think of Pavan Sukhdev as nature’s banker — assessing the value of the Earth’s assets....
Dec
14
Green stamps raise awareness to save resources. Credit USPS.
Walking out to the mailbox often brings a broad smile of delight when we retrieve cards, packages, photographs and news from family and friends. Tossing the undesirable direct advertising into the recycle bin, we’ll step inside and sit...
Sep
01
This Sunday at 8 p,m. EDT*, CNN will present The Battle for Blair Mountain: Working in America, a special, one-hour documentary on the heated controversy over the mountaintop removal method of coal mining at Spruce No. 1 in West Virginia.
Hosted by Soledad O’Brien, the program explores the...
Aug
12
