Archive for July, 2006

TFF Proposes Localized Carbon Trading and Mitigation Program

The Forest Foundation at a recent Healthy Environment Durham meting proposed to help establish a local carbon mitigationand trading system, that would benefit local organizations and environment, and could link with larger state-wide or global systems. In this way investments would stay local and increase multipliers within our own economy.

Dying Forest: One year to save the Amazon

Time is running out for the Amazon rainforest. And the fate of the ‘lungs
of the world’ will take your breath away. (The extent to which the collapse of the Amazon will affect the world’s climate is detailed in Tim Fannery’s The Weathermakers)
Report by Geoffrey Lean in Manaus for the Independent