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If a Tree Falls in the Forest…

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

A couple weeks ago, I was up at my house in the Cascades, working on an article with a quickly approaching deadline, the type of article that required a great deal of attention and no small measure of quiet. Sure, birds chattered and trees swayed and water rushed along its rocky riverbed. But such sounds [...]

Tags: clearcutting, climate change, deforestation, forests, global warming, greenhouse gases, logging, National Geographic, Nature Conservancy, slash and burn, timber industry

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A Future Up in Smoke: But What About the Children?

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

In 2010, greenhouse gas emissions around the world rose by a record 5.9%. If these rates continue, we have a 50/50 chance that by the year 2100 the global average temperature will have increased by more than 4 degrees Celsius, a rise that could lead to loss of land, mass migrations, and bloody conflicts in [...]

Tags: Archbishop of Canterbury, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, Central Conference of American Rabbis’ Committee on the Environment, climate change, Dalai Lama, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Evangelical Climate Initiative, Fazlun Khalid, Genesis Farm, global warming, greenhouse gases, Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Joel Hunter, Karen Baker-Fletcher, Miriam MacGillis, Onondaga Nation, Oren Lyons, Pope Benedict XVI, Regeneration Project, Richard Cizik, Rowan Williams, Sally Bingham, Thich Nhat Hanh, Warren Stone

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If a Tree Falls in the Forest…

A Future Up in Smoke: But What About the Children?

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