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Popular Mechanics
May 2007
Simon Cooper |
Global Timber Smugglers--and How You Can Stop Them This multibillion-dollar black market business occurs in more than 70 countries, and contributes to the annual destruction of more than 32 million wooded acres. Here is a Guilt-Free Wood Buyer's Guide and Tips to Buy Safe Wood.   |
IDB America
July 2005
Roger Hamilton |
Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala. |
This Old House
C.J. Hughes |
Buying 'Green' Flooring Join the ranks of consumers who are driving the market for "sustainable" products by following these 10 options for the eco-minded remodeler. |
Salon.com
March 6, 2002
Jennifer Hile |
Hangin' with the 'tans in Borneo Deep in the Indonesian rain forest, our reporter braves tribal war to discover why orangutans may be driven to extinction by America's love for pool cues... |
Financial Advisor
September 2011
Ellie Winninghoff |
Go Hug A Forest Impact investors can foster change while earning handsome returns in one of the only asset classes where there's real growth. |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Could Environmentalists Learn to Love This Road? An asphalt strip through Brazil's Amazon rainforest is intended to anchor an economy based on a newer, gentler way to use the rain forest. |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Mark L. Clifford |
Cleaning Up Asians are starting to demand action on pollution -- and the region's governments are responding. |
TIME Asia
June 20, 2011
Brendan Brady |
Battle of the Jungle Sorng Rukavorn is one of 13 community forests in Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province -- spread over a total of 68,000 hectares -- being registered with climate-change groups as a bank of carbon credits. |
Fast Company
June 2008
Richard Behar |
Special Report: China in Africa (Part 2) In sub-Saharan Africa, the Chinese seem to be everywhere: clearing trees in Mozambique, drilling for oil in Sudan, digging in copper mines in Zambia, opening textile factories in Kenya, prospecting for uranium in Zimbabwe, buying cobalt in the Congo, laying expressways in Angola, and more. |
Reason
February 2006
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
The Age of Corporate Environmentalism Environmental activists across the nation bought their own ties and started dealing with corporations as almost-equal partners in planet saving. Businesses in turn learned that it's pretty easy being green. |
Outside
August 2005
Peter Stark |
The Tree Slayer What does a naive environmentalist discover when he buys his own forest? He's got to log it to save it. |
Scientific American
September 2009
Madhusree Mukerjee |
Conflicted Conservation: When Restoration Efforts Are Pitted against Human Rights Saving Earth might mean trampling indigenous societies |
Wired
February 2007
Michael Behar |
Reservoir Logs A submersible robot called the Sawfish can harvest healthy timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. |
Salon.com
June 9, 2000
Mark Hertsgaard |
The California chainsaw massacre Clear-cutting is tearing up forests in the nation's most environmentally aware state, and opponents blame the timber industry's ties to Gov. Gray Davis. |
National Gardening
April 2000
Alex Wilson |
Naturally Rot-Resistant Woods Though sometimes hard to come by, they are nature's answer to the problem of decay |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2006
Toccoa Switzer |
Money Does Grow On Trees Timber Investment Management Organizations provide excellent diversification, and inflation-hedging attributes to mixed-asset portfolios. The investment moves inversely to stocks and bonds with little correlation to commercial real estate. |
Fast Company
Alice Truong |
Jungle Bird Is Racing To Save The World, One Madcap Video Bombing At A Time The Englishman going by the moniker Jungle Bird was tossed in jail for 18 hours for being a crazy passionate deforestation activist. |
Mother Jones
December 2000
Sue Halpern |
Road Block To stop road building and logging in the world's largest temperate rainforest, Alaskans are trying to turn tourists into activists... |
Outside
December 2007
Eric Hansen |
Stumped Two gung-ho idiots try to demonstrate that the world's last great forest + chainsaws = awesome skiing. |
Salon.com
August 23, 2000
Mark Hertsgaard |
California could end clear-cutting A bill to make the practice illegal puts politicians in the hot spot between the timber industry and the increasingly tree-friendly public. |
Smithsonian
March 2007
Joshua Hammer |
Rain Forest Rebel In the Amazon, researchers document the way the native people have joined forces with an embattled chief to stop illegal loggers and developers from destroying the earth's most precious wilderness |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2011
Eric Dutram |
What's Driving the Timber ETFs? Have the natural disasters in Japan been sending these ETFs up? |
Mother Jones
June 2000
Ted Williams |
False Forests What's green, full of trees, and worse than a clearcut? Vast pine farms, which are rapidly replacing the woods with a new kind of Southern plantation. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2007
Jeremy MacNealy |
International Paper Turns Over a Greener Leaf? The paper giant aims to increase profitability and do more to protect the environment. Investors, sound crazy? |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2004
Tonya Vinas |
Boise Challenges Suppliers While supply-chain optimization hasn't generally focused on environmental responsibility, it does at paper, office supply and construction materials manufacturer Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Idaho. |
IDB America
January 2006 |
We Are Trying to Make Dreams Happen The governor of Brazil's Amazonian state of Acre is a passionate advocate of the rain forest and his people's economic future. Here's an interview with Jorge Viana on his government's innovative approach to preserving the rain forest. |
Registered Rep.
July 6, 2012
Jennifer Popovec |
Knock on Wood Timber REITs, now unloved, anticipate strong demand, increased revenues |
Outside
August 2003
Dan Buettner |
Groundbreaker A plan to save Guatemala's Mayan cities with a park and a posh eco-lodge has enviros and locals boiling |
Outside
June 2003
Douglas Gantenbein |
We're Toast Last summer, U.S. wildfires cost $1.6 billion to stop and claimed the lives of 23 firefighters. The expense and sacrifice did nothing to solve the problems of overgrown forests, misguided policies, and misspent resources. We need to get serious about rethinking the role of flame in the woods. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Mar/Apr 2006
Sherri Alms |
A Win/Win Proposition The Blandin Foundation championed inclusivity across sectors to promote healthy forests and communities -- and along the way won the 2006 Paul Ylvisaker Award for Public Policy Engagement. |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Tomorrow's Amazon In the far western Amazonian state of Acre, a group of idealists is inventing a pragmatic, hard-nosed way to protect the rainforest. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Good Wood Plum Creek is a well-managed timber REIT, but should investors still pile into this hot sector? |
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Thomas J. Straka |
Does Your Client Own Timberland? - Part I Over ten million individuals and families own timberland. Is it a neglected aspect of your client's portfolio? |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2011
Jeremy Myers |
A Hard Asset to Buy for This Market Buy the land and get the business for free. |
Outside
March 2005
Bruce Barcott |
As a Matter of Fact, Money Does Grow on Trees With an anti-environmental backlash inflicting one defeat after another on conservationists, a band of maverick economists is riding to the rescue with a startling revelation about the true value of our natural resources: Follow the money, and you end up in a very green place. |
Science News
March 17, 2007 |
Science Safari: More Than Monarchs This website raises awareness of devastating impact illegal logging has on the Monarch Butterfly population. |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Machines in the Garden A state in Brazil's Amazon enlists laboratories and industrial parks to help protect its forests. |
Reason
May 2002
Brian Doherty |
Freeing Forests Privatizing land management: it was just a suggestion in one paragraph of President Bush's proposed 2003 budget, but it has already generated many pages of controversy... |
Wired
August 21, 2007
David Wolman |
Eco-Capitalists Save Mother Nature By Charging for Her Services David Brand, founder and director of a forestry investment business, is buying forests now to make money in the future from their existence. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Greg Peterson |
Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2002
Lorna Pappas |
Branching Out Investors are taking notice as Seattle-based REIT Plum Creek Timber Company grows into one of the largest land owners in the nation... |
Salon.com
December 1, 2000
Douglas Cruickshank |
The cowardliness of their convictions Score another one for environmental activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill, as an ugly attack on the tree she saved illuminates her strengths and promotes her cause... |
Salon.com
January 11, 2001
Anthony York |
Baked Alaska? Fearing a return to the days of James Watt, green activists mobilize to spike Bush's environmental nominees... |
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Thomas J. Straka |
Does Your Client Own Timberland? - Part II Over ten million individuals and families own timberland. Is it a neglected aspect of your client's portfolio? |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2006
Jada A. Graves |
Branching Out Timber REIT analysts and executives agree the future is boundless for this segment of the real estate industry, and that timber is now in a position to stand on its own as a sector, due to its individuality and growth potential. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2004
Bill Mann |
A Tale of Timber and Love Recent earnings at Plum Creek Timber, a Seattle-based real estate investment trust, have been pretty spectacular, as demand for timber from homebuilders and other construction remains high. |
