Each year, about 15 million acres of forest is turned into wood products, a total of more than 300 million since the 1990s. That’s about twice the area of Texas.
The current cost of replanting this enormous area is about $100 billion.
We’d all like to make this happen, since trees are such an effective combatant against greenhouse gas emissions, and thus climate change, but isn’t there anything that can be done to bring down the costs?
Check this out:
When I was told that the writing services I was performing for my client American Diversified Energy needed to conform to their stylebook, I was somewhat shocked. Who has their own? ADE is a very professional organization, and they certainly have the right to do whatever they want in this regard, but this isn’t the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, right? The Associated Press Stylebook is the default for U.S. publications, and it actually never dawned on me that someone would direct me otherwise. (more…)
There is a reason that “reduce” comes first here, i.e., if you don’t use something in the first place, you don’t have to worry about what happens to it downstream.
It is for that reason that this plan to reduce the consumption of plastics is such a great idea.
Blueland, you just got a brand new customer.
From former Labor Secretary Robert Reich:
A new poll released today asked this straightforward question: (more…)
Most of us probably have a lower assessment of humankind now than we did a few years ago.
Until recently, it was possible to believe that our society was on a path to becoming more civilized. Outside of events that could be regarded as isolated aberrations, like the Third Reich or Serbia in the 1990s, one could say that we were starting to learn to treat one another better, that racism was in decline, that healthcare for all might someday become a reality, and the world was becoming a cleaner and more just place to live. (more…)
I’m fairly certain that the meme on the left here was not written as a joke, but I sure got a chuckle out of it.
Unless you’re in third grade, your friends are already quite familiar with the concept of climate change. (more…)
As reported by Bloomberg, Robert E. Murray, the U.S. coal baron who pressed the Trump administration to help save America’s struggling miners, placed his company into bankruptcy as demand for fossil fuel continues to weaken. (more…)
Here’s a fabulous video in which the presenter offers a crash course on the particle physics associated with nuclear energy. Once this is under our belts, we’re in a position to understand the value of thorium, and essential design of the liquid floride thorium reactor. (more…)
The word on the street for the past couple of years has been that Saudi Arabia is continuing to sell oil on the world market, but moving to renewable energy, largely solar, for its own use domestically. But when they cancelled the largest renewables project ever announced, $200 billion worth of solar panels stretching across hundreds of square kilometres of the Saudi Arabian desert, people started wondering how sincere all this really is. (more…)
Amazon and sustainability. These two words have always felt odd beside each other — and they still do. There is only one reason why Amazon.com encourages people to ship bottled water and single servings of Cup-O-Noodle halfway across the country: Because the needs of capital win out over the needs of the environment every time. (more…)
