Latest Reforestation Stories

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Maya Lin, the world-renowned artist and designer, will tonight debut her new media piece - Unchopping a Tree - at the Support REDD+ Gala in Copenhagen at COP15, hosted by The Coalition for Rainforest Nations and the governments of Gabon, Guyana and Papua New Guinea. The video is the latest iteration of What is Missing?, Ms. Lin's last memorial, and links deforestation prevention and sustainable reforestation with reducing carbon emissions and protecting...

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Wood Flooring Association has announced that it has joined forces with several prominent environmental groups in an effort to create a program that recognizes the environmental attributes of wood flooring. Working with the Forest Stewardship Council-US and the FSC Family Forests Alliance, the NWFA created the Responsible Procurement Program, which recognizes wood flooring companies that work to sustain our world's forest. To...

LAVAL, QC, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ - Uniboard, a North American leader of manufactured engineered wood products, is pleased to announce that its plant in Mont-Laurier, Quebec has been issued a Chain of Custody (COC) Certificate Multi-site by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) SW-COC 002726. "FSC certification is the industry's environmental gold standard and this achievement underlines Uniboard's ongoing commitment to sustainable business practices," said Lise Plante Product Manager, Panel...

VINELAND, N.J., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- To hear the claims that wooden pallet producers have clear cut, raped and pillaged their way through America's old growth virgin forests, stripping them of trees, leaving them bald and naked. Sounds like a horror movie. Scary, but fictitious. According to Michael Smith, C.O.O. of PALNET, a nationwide supplier of wooden pallets, "It's time to set the record straight because exactly the opposite is true." Smith explained the production process wooden...

TEMPLE, Texas, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Wilsonart Flooring is the first laminate flooring manufacturer to earn Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) chain of custody certification, ensuring that products marked with the recognizable FSC "checkmark and tree" ecologo were sourced from responsibly managed forests. Through the use of materials from well-managed forests and recycled sources, Wilsonart offers High Pressure Laminate (HPL) Flooring manufactured in the USA that provides a responsible...

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Wood Flooring Association has announced that it has formed the Forest Stewardship Council Procurement Group, whose mission is to explore, review and develop systems for private landowners to adopt FSC certification. FSC certification offers the highest assurance of environmental and social performance in the forest products industry. Demand for FSC-certified wood has increased dramatically during the past few years based on...

CHICAGO, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Green Carbon Corporation ("Global Green Carbon", "GGCC" or the "Company") announced today that it has completed a structured financing deal with Legends Capital. The proceeds of the funding are allocated to developing reforestation projects. Global Green Carbon is a world-wide developer of reforestation projects utilizing carbon credit financing. Global Green Carbon recently announced the acquisition of Andean Carbon Corporation, which is the project...

COHOES, N.Y., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Mohawk Fine Papers is the latest company to resign from the United States Chamber of Commerce over climate policy. "We believe that our continued membership in an organization that vigorously opposes sensible climate change policies is detrimental to our position as a business leader with a strong record in the areas of environmental innovation and climate protection," says George F. Milner, Mohawk's Senior VP, Energy, Environmental, and Government...

ROSWELL, Ga., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Kimberly-Clark Professional recently became the first away-from-home tissue products provider in North America to receive Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) chain-of-custody certification for a broad range of tissue and towel products. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091012/PH90239 ) These FSC-certified products are now available for purchase and the FSC label will begin appearing on product packaging this month. Customers purchasing...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Chegg.com, the number one online textbook rental company, has helped the environment by planting a tree for every book rented, sold or bought. Today, the company announced that it has planted over one million trees in 2009 through a partnership with the American Forests' Global ReLeaf® program. The tree-planting program demonstrates that Chegg not only gives back to students in the form of serious savings on their textbooks, but also gives back...