Norway has announced plans to nearly double its carbon tax on the nation’s offshore petroleum sector to create a £1 billion fund to help combat the effects of climate change, including in developing nations. In a draft budget released this week, gov…
Tags: · carbon tax, climate mitigation, effects of climate change, forest conservation, Norway
There are many ways to celebrate Mother’s Day. Cut flowers, breakfast in bed, brunch at her favorite restaurant, a chick flick night. All these fit the day — and you can even take your mom along!
A magnolia looks and smells great. (Your tree won't be this big.)
Tags: · Arbor Day Foundation, birds, butterflies, ethical eating, fair trade chocolate, forest conservation, Mercy for Animals, Mother's Day, Native Plants, planting trees, shade trees, sustainable goods, tofu scramble, Trees
The 2009 Big Book - Collector's item?
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If anything makes as big a thud on your doorstep as the Yellow Pages books, it has been the JC Penney semi-annual “Big Book.”
But the retailer has decided that that thud has outlived its impressiveness and is taking a heavy toll on marketing costs and forests, announcing today that it will no long print the giant catalog. Instead, JC Penney will dedicate its resources to specialty catalogs and online services.
Explained the press release: “The discontinuation of “big book” catalogs aligns with JC Penney’s ongoing commitment to promote the sustainability of forests and other natural resources, and builds upon its legacy of operating in an ethical and socially responsible manner.”
Tags: · Big Book, Catalogs, corporate consumption, forest conservation, J.C. Penney, marketing, Paper reduction, saving paper, sustainable practices
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It seems fitting that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s first 100 percent recycled text books are a series for K-5th graders called “Go Math!”
Because the math (and the science) tells us that the earth is warming and we’d better figure out how to recycle, reuse and reduce or plan to jettison the planet in a big spaceship in the not-distance future.
The “Go Math!” series will be available in spring 2010 and has already been adopted by the state of Florida. The company estimates that the green textbooks will save 40,000 trees and 8 million gallons of water in Florida alone. It will reduce carbon air emissions by 3.8 million pounds and eliminate 1 million pounds of solid waste, according to HMH.
Tags: · digital learning, electronic textbooks, forest conservation, Go Math!, green textbooks, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Recycled Paper, textbooks, textbooks made from recycled paper
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