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April 7, 2011

The Fight Over International Climate Investments

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April 4, 2011

Green gasoline

Petrochemicals from biomass without using excess water from the start-up Anellotech. An early-stage company spun out of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, plans to commercialize a catalytic process for converting cellulosic biomass into five of the chemicals found in gasolin.

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March 31, 2011

The Rites of Spring

Like robins, Sun Belt baseball and daffodils poking their heads up from the soil, it seems to be a rite of spring for advocates of the Forest Stewardship Council and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative to go after each other about the relative credibility of each other’s forestry standards.

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March 30, 2011

Forestry Group Aims to Boost Sustainability Practices

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03.27.11

New studies sully reputation of biomass as clean and green

Simpson Tacoma Kraft would seem like one of the greener power plants. It boils water by burning sawdust, bark and wood shavings from saw mills and pulp mills, funneling the resulting high-pressure steam into a turbine to generate electricity.

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March 28, 2011

Fortune 500 Companies Drop Misleading Eco-Label

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March 28, 2011

More Thoughts on Foreign Investments in Timberland

My last post generated a couple of comments that referenced FIRPTA (Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act) and the likely impact that the law would “keep Asian demand in U.S. timberland muted”. The law has been around since 1981 so I thought that I would take a look at what the impact of foreign investment on timberland has been to date.

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March 15, 2011

IETA Launches Publication Series and Two New Papers on REDD+

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March 13, 2011

The American Carbon Registry (ACR): REDD Methodology Modules

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March 15, 2011

Forest Rules

There has been good news recently for America’s national forests, and some that could have been better.

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