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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Letter to the editor: forest certification Kathy Abusow of Sustainable Forestry Initiative responds to Grist's green-buying tips	Grist	12 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Here is a letter to the editor from Kathy Abusow of Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc., written in response to our article featuring tips for buying green products and avoiding greenwashed ones. ----- Dear Editor: I am writing in response to an article that your website ran titled 'Is It Really Green?' It was disappointing to read your statement about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standard® (SFI®). The fact is, SFI is an independent nonprofit organization and ...
Topics: consumerism, deforestation, green living, greenwashing, logging (all these topics)

Sears of Joy Sears and KMart will phase out PVC, Wal-Mart accused of eco-naughtiness		13 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:36 PM on 13 Dec 2007 Big-box behemoths Sears and Kmart have agreed to phase out nasty plastic PVC from all products in their 3,800 stores. While admirable, the announcement merely makes those stores the lemmings of PVC abandonment; IKEA, Wal-Mart, and Target have all previously agreed to go PVC-free. In other big-box news, the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency has accused Wal-Mart of sour ...
Topics: business, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, logging, news, shopping, toxics, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Sex! Violence! Sitting in a Tree! Story of tree-sitting activist Julia Butterfly Hill headed to big screen		06 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Sex! Violence! Sitting in a Tree! Story of tree-sitting activist Julia Butterfly Hill headed to big screen Celebrated activist Julia Butterfly Hill, author of the memoir "The Legacy of Luna," is heading for the bright lights (and sudden fame, subsequent substance abuse, rehab, appearance on "The Surreal Life," and rehabilitation by hot indie filmmaker) of Hollywood. Hill, you may recall, protested Pacific Lumber ...
Topics: green living, logging (all these topics)

Certifiably Insane? Wood-labeling program less green than it appears	Jeff Shaw	23 Feb 2004	Main Dish
If you've got plans to undertake a woodworking project -- building a deck, say, or a fancy new china cabinet -- you're probably not going to figure a plane ticket to Burma or Humboldt County, Calif., into the budget, even if you'd like to be sure that the wood you'll use has been harvested sustainably. Hence, the rise of green labeling: a convenient way for consumers to put their money where their value ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, Forest Stewardship Council, green living, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Certifiably Insane? Timber Industry's Sustainable Forestry Initiative Falls Short		23 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, logging, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics)

Citigroup Hug Citigroup Adopts Green-Friendly Policies		22 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Citigroup Hug Citigroup Adopts Green-Friendly Policies After four years of pressure and protests from the Rainforest Action Network, the world's largest financial institution announced today that it will adopt a comprehensive corporate policy stressing eco-friendly investment. Citigroup will carefully assess financing requests for projects that might adversely affect natural habitats and will not finance any l ...
Topics: business, green living, logging, rainforests (all these topics)

Pack Your Trunks California's Timber Appetite Spells Trouble for World's Forests		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Pack Your Trunks California's Timber Appetite Spells Trouble for World's Forests As California strives to protect its own forests, rising demand for wood in the state is fueling logging far afield, in Oregon, the southeastern U.S., Canada, and even Europe. According to a new report by the state Department of Forestry, California imports about 75 percent of its wood and paper products. The problem is ...
Topics: California, Canada, green living, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Crying Shaman		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Crying Shaman A new oil pipeline that will run from the Russian region of Buryatiya into China is being hailed by industry officials and government leaders as a major economic boon, but many local residents beg to differ. Construction of the pipeline will involve bulldozing land and felling trees -- environmental problems anywhere and ...
Topics: Asia, China, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, green living, logging, national parks, wilderness (all these topics)

Bunk Rock On sustainable bunk beds	Umbra Fisk	14 Nov 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I've been looking for a sustainably harvested bunk bed for my five-year-old son for quite some time now. I have found only one company, Pacific Rim, that makes such an item. It seems like a great company, but it doesn't have exactly what I'm looking for. When I search online, all I read about are "super low, unbeatable prices," rather than the really important details, like whether it's any good for our planet. Do ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, logging (all these topics)

Bread and Butterfly		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bread and Butterfly Like a lot of Americans, millions of monarch butterflies spend their winters in Mexico. Trouble is, the Mexican government has been unable to protect the monarch's forest habitat from illegal logging. Reasoning that illegal logging stems from necessity -- the 200,000-odd largely impoverished people who live in the Monarch ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, green living, logging, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Wood Picker		20 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Wood Picker Eric Gellerman is making furniture out of old-growth Douglas fir, 150-year-old white oak, and Indonesian teak -- and getting kudos from environmentalists for doing so. Gellerman is cofounder of The Wooden Duck, a furniture store in Berkeley, Calif., that salvages wood to craft its wares. The environmental benefits range from the obvious -- the company does ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, green living, logging, South Africa (all these topics)

Hey Good Lookin', What Ya Got Cookin'?		27 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Hey Good Lookin', What Ya Got Cookin'? Nearly all residents in Villaseca, Chile, cook with solar power --pretty nifty in a country where firewood is a big source of energy, contributing to a steep loss in old-growth forests each year. Villaseca in sunny northern Chile has only 300 residents, but proponents of the solar technology hope the gizmos will spread across the region. Pedro Serrano, an environ ...
Topics: green living, logging, South America, water pollution (all these topics)

The Deep Six	Donella H. Meadows	12 Oct 1999	Global Citizen
Months ago, the United Nations decided to make an event out of the fact that the human population meter would soon click over another billion. They picked an arbitrary date -- October 12 -- and declared it the Day of 6 Billion. What kind of event should this be? A day of repentance? A celebration? In a world of soundbites, what's the right tone here? Six billion, oh woe? Six billion, yippee? Six billion. But who's counting? My guess is that " ...
Topics: green living, health, logging, marine life, population (all these topics)

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