Over the past 2 decades, since the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, we have witnessed the launch of many initiatives to stop deforestation. Despite the good intentions of each approach tried, we have continued to lose an area the size of New York City every other day to deforestation. These activities account for 17% of global greenhouse gas emissions โ more than the entire global transportation sector. Code REDD plans to harness the economic activities that create deforestation as tools to fight it.
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Five for Friday: Great Green Blog Posts for the Week (6/18/10)
Friday’s quickly turning into a link-a-palooza here at sustainablog between Five for Friday and the Green Business Blog Carnival… but we’re happy to give out the love to our fellow [ … ]
Five Green Holiday Gifts that Keep on Giving
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Building Bridges: A Bull Market in Green Guilt isn’t Sustainable
The stock market is down, unemployment is up, and the political class is falling all over over itself trying to take action (or, at least create the appearance of taking [ … ]
10 Ways that Social Media and Sustainability Line Up
The mega-trends of social media and sustainability share plenty of the same DNA. The Arnold Palmer is an exceptional beverage. It takes two individual beverages, iced tea and lemonade, each [ … ]