by Working Forest | May 13, 2015 | Archives
British Columbia has experienced a significant increase in wildfire activity in the last decade, and if predictions from government fire scientists come true, we can expect to see further increases in burned area and cost in the coming decade. With each catastrophic...
by Working Forest | May 12, 2015 | Archives
For a company that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Canadian pulp mills to become the second-largest pulp and paper producer in Canada, Paper Excellence (PE) doesn’t talk about itself much. The company’s owner, 35-year-old Jackson Widjaja, who lives in...
by Working Forest | May 12, 2015 | Archives
A large forest fire in northern B.C. is growing as firefighters struggle to contain the out-of-control blaze that has forced dozens of people from their homes. Crews worked through Sunday night to dampen the wildfire, which by Monday afternoon had expanded to consume...
by Working Forest | May 12, 2015 | Archives
Apple is sending three messages: to customers, to investors, to China. Apple is not the greenest company in the world. In fact, although it made Fortune’s 2014 list of 50 Best Global Green Brands — at No. 22 — it ended up with a negative performance/perception gap:...
by Working Forest | May 12, 2015 | Archives
35,000 Ecuadoreans will volunteer to plant over 350,000 tree seeds on 16 May, breaking a Guinness World Record in the process. Seeds will be planted across the country, in a massive reforestation effort confirmed as unprecedented by Carlos Martinez, director of the...
