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An Ethical Guide to Toilet Paper

The Environmental Blog

When they are cut down, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. The logging industry is one of the most environmentally destructive forces humans have unleashed on our planet. Recycled toilet paper offers the same product but has far less negative impact on the environment.

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Can burning biomass be sustainable?

Low Impact

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. The volume of timber products commercially recycled as woodfuel in the UK almost quadrupled between 2011 and 2018 when it reached 2.1

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Hope in the Midst of Despair - An Environmental Success Story

Green Market Oracle

During this time we made significant progress on a number of environmental fronts including asbestos, acid rain, DDT, open-air nuclear tests, endangered species, toxic waste, waste recycling, leaded gasoline, ozone, pollution, mercury emissions and SLCPs. Fish and Wildlife Services in Denver crushed six tons of illegal elephant ivory tusks.

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5 Government Initiatives from Around the World That Are Helping Reduce the Impact of Climate Change

Green Tech Challenge

The problem of global warming crosses geopolitical lines and boundaries, and thus must be addressed by humanity as a whole. The government essentially intends to hold manufacturers and retailers more responsible for disposing of and recycling their products.

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8 positive environmental stories from 2021

AGreenLiving

While there were previously protections in place, former president Trump had exempted the area in his last few months of office, which opened the door for building roads, logging and other damaging activities. This area is home to 800-year-old trees, Indigenous people and 400 species of wildlife and fish. It stores more than 1.5

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

Most scientists increasingly lament the overcrowding found throughout Western forests and call for ecological thinning — the selective cutting of smaller trees and undergrowth — typically followed by intentional fires to reduce the fuel load and recycle nutrients. The revenue from saleable logs helped offset restoration costs.

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Fifty Shades of Greta

Green Market Oracle

Cruz has logged more than 160 dives since the age of 10 and has been shooting underwater photographs since he was 12. She launched her own chapter of Fridays for Future after she realized that the strong rains and long droughts that hurt her family’s crops could be attributed to global warming. Everything we need.