The Gold, The Silver, The Bronze
and The Green?
No matter the oft-cited reports of China’s toxic environmental record, the world’s most populous country is proudly putting decidedly green final touches on its preparations for the Olympics, which spring to life August 8th. read the full story
On Paper Podcast:
Episode 003
Form meets function in this interview with Matt Grigsby, CEO and Co-founder of ecolect.net, the largest, freely accessible sustainable materials library on the net. In our third installment of On Paper, host, David Crew explores the topic of sustainable design, who’s doing it and how.
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America takes a stand for business
and the planet
From Vietnam to Brazil, from China to Africa, blowing the whistle on Illegal logging has proved difficult and all too often, dismally ineffective. Meanwhile, the decimation of forests for paper and other timber-based industries has resulted in a disastrous acceleration of species loss and increased greenhouse gases. Just this month, Vietnam reported illegal, freshly downed logs being smuggled straight from the forests onto passenger trains to be sold to manufacturers. read the full story
