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Haiti “For Profit” Sustainable Agroforesty Program Bears New Fruit in Wake of Hurricane Matthew
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Haiti “For Profit” Sustainable Agroforesty Program Bears New Fruit in

Andrew Burger April 18, 2017

Having achieved an initial goal of engaging local smallholder farming communities in planting 5 million trees, Haiti's Smallholder Farmers Alliance and Timberland continue down an extraordinary path that's helping smallholder farmers in southwest Haiti recover from Hurricane Matthew and promoting revivial of smallholder farm cotton production in Latin America and the Caribbean.Read More

Environmental Advocacy Under a Trump Presidency
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Environmental Advocacy Under a Trump Presidency

Thomas Schueneman November 10, 2016

Election 2016, the morning after Wednesday morning, coming to grips with a Trump presidency: The slow motion wreck that was election 2016 has finally ended, the smoke has cleared, and now we find ourselves in a very strange place. Not where we wanted to be. We should take the time to mourn the loss we feel, […]Read More

President-Elect Trump, the U.S., Climate Change and Sustainable Development
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President-Elect Trump, the U.S., Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Andrew Burger November 10, 2016

Environmental, climate change and renewable energy industry participants and proponents are gearing up for four long, lean years in the wake of Donald Trump's surprise U.S. election victory. They're not abandoning all hope, however; and Trump could pull an even greater surprise if he does an about-face and embraces Obama's legacy of helping build U.S. renewable energy and clean tech industries that are bringing back middle-class U.S. jobs and spurring investment, innovation and entrepreneurship in ways that benefit US and global society in multiple ways.Read More

Mexico’s First Wood Fiberboard Plant Highlights Controversy Over UN FAO Definition of Forests
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Mexico’s First Wood Fiberboard Plant Highlights Controversy Over UN FAO

Andrew Burger September 27, 2016

Drawing on local eucalyptus plantation it owns, Proteak Uno's new medium density fiber board plant highlights the ongoing controversy revolving around industrial forestry and its contributions to achieving key national and international environmental, climate change and sustainable development goals.Read More

Why the World Needs More Corporate Transparency
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Why the World Needs More Corporate Transparency

Richard Matthews May 26, 2016

There are powerful social, environmental and economic implications associated with transparency. Corporations are not the only ones that should be concerned about transparency; governments, employees, consumers and the whole of civil society all have a stake. Transparency is about open access to an organization’s activities and this has implications for everything from climate change to the bottom line. Starbuck’s CEO […]Read More

The Future of Sustainable Development: A Citizen Journalism Project
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The Future of Sustainable Development: A Citizen Journalism Project

Thomas Schueneman April 12, 2016

Beacon is a crowdfunding platform for journalists. For more than two years Beacon has supported hundreds of worthwhile projects, adding a perspective to journalism free from the internet echo-chamber or vagaries of the advertising business model (here’s one we recommend and support). We’ve just launched our own campaign on Beacon to help fund a series of articles […]Read More

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