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...preserve rain forests is to inject value into their maintenance [Dec. 15]. But paying for avoided deforestation will only work if the financial incentive outweighs the alternatives. Paying for avoided deforestation can best be achieved by rewarding sustainable forestry. This adds further economic incentive (the price of the timber) to the pot and ensures the preservation of the resource, providing jobs and income. A global price of carbon internalized into the cost of goods and services will further discriminate in favor of sustainably grown wood. John White, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, TIMBER TRADE FEDERATION, LONDON

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honoring Obama | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...days of loss and uncertainty, there is particular comfort in the once-a-year hymns, the green-bean recipe you don't really like but would still miss at Thanksgiving, the recurring commitments that remind us what's certain, what's fleeting. Timber and stone, flesh and blood may change--a grandfather dies, a house burns down--but the traditions survive; they are made of love and longing for what we value, and so we hold them close and take them wherever we go. They are wonderfully portable, as anyone who has ever improvised a Thanksgiving in someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Listen to the Kids | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...Kyoto Protocol only recognizes industrial projects - such as a rich country paying to improve energy efficiency at a power plant - or programs to actively reforest land already cleared. It doesn't recognize avoided deforestation - also known by the acronym REDD, for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. With timber and biofuel plantations so valuable, that means "rain forests are worth more dead than alive," says Andrew Mitchell, director of the Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of forestry institutions. But a handful of pilot projects, like the one in Noel Kempff and others in nations such as Belize, Indonesia and Madagascar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Banks: Paying Countries to Keep their Trees | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...likes of Smashmouth and Sugar Ray that he bumps disturb my studying and make me want to vomit up a Beanie Baby. I usually hear Piper leave for dinner at around 6 p.m., and he almost always comes back chatting with a friend, speaking in a cool, sophisticated timber that he definitely does not use when he’s on the phone with his mom. Their discussion is usually centered on the same thing: some girl named Janie. Or Jamie? Jenny? Either way, they’ve mentioned that she’s got an incredible laugh...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: True Tales of a Sinister Hipster | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...treat its citizens more humanely. Economic sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union are undercut by the eagerness with which China and other Asian countries do business with Burma's generals. Although one of Asia's poorest nations, Burma holds a wealth of natural resources like timber, natural gas and precious stones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma Crackdown Reflects Junta's Insecurity | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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