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Waste Veggie Oil Donations: A Sustainable Community Energy Program
The Forest Foundation (TFF) of Durham is accepting donations of waste vegetable oil (WVO) from local area restaurants as a part of its effort to promote and develop local, alternative, renewable and sustainable energy.
Compact Fluorescent Lights FAQ
Climate Change is a serious problem and Compact Florescent Lights (CFLs) are a great solution to reducing energy demand, mercury in the environment, the need to build more power plants and a host of other values. Not without their own problems, it is currently the least cost, best solution available.
October is C-r-a-z-y- State Fair (10th Year), Green Festival and much, much more!
Whew, October was nuts! Mary Katherine headed to DC for the Green Festival (our third year), and Marc held down the NC State Fair Booth – for TFF’s tenth year!
Moving Beyond the “Triple Bottom Line”
The goal of triple bottom-line thinking is to soften the ravages of capitalism and corporate controlled society, by shifting from “bottom-line” driven motivations of profit and greed, towards more benign models, inclusive of other, important societal values that have been excluded to date. This model, however, is also flawed and requires a more thorough review of its strengths and weaknesses.
Book Review: Last Child in the Woods
Last Child in the Wood is one of the most important books of our time that should be required reading for all parents, educators and public policy makers.
TFF Supports Successful Statewide Film Tour Educating North Carolinians
The week of July 16th through the 22nd, several North Carolina organizations take part in the “Kilowatt Ours” documentary film tour from Wilmington to Hendersonville.
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
Trip Report: Colombian Handicraft Development a Success
As an alternative vision to America’s War on Drugs, handicraft development can be an important part of an integrated model for sustainable livelihoods.
TFF Internships, Summer 2006
The Forest Foundation is offering four summer internships in fair trade, environmental education, web development and biodiesel operations, some with stipends and may result in full-time employeement.