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- How to Build a Better Home
Fact Sheet - A new approach to homebuilding saves trees and energy -- and makes for economical, comfortable homes.
- Know the Forest and the Trees: A Consumer's Guide to Buying Wood
Fact Sheet - Whether you are building a deck or just buying a nightstand, your purchase can have an impact on forests and people thousands of miles away. Your money could support a sustainable community initiative on the rainforest's edge--or it could contribute to continued impoverishment of families in Latin America or deforestation in Southeast Asia.
- Reforming the Paper Industry
Guides - The pulp and paper industry is one of the most environmentally damaging industries in the world. Find out how you, through individual purchases or through your business, can help transform this bad actor into a more sustainable industry.
- A Shopper's Guide to Home Tissue Products
Guides - Help save forests by choosing environmentally preferable alternatives.
- Great Bear Rainforest
Photo Album - On Canada's Pacific coast lies one of the Earth's largest remaining tracts of temperate rainforest: the 8-million-acre Great Bear Rainforest. Once threatened with intense and destructive logging, the Great Bear's future now seems brighter after the announcement of a historic conservation agreement and the resulting protection of 5 million acres of the rainforest. These photos illustrate the amazing diversity of the Great Bear's ecosystem and the wildlife that call it home -- and testify to environmental activists' power to shape history.
- Paper Industry Laying Waste to North American Forests
News - Top U.S. manufacturers, such as Kimberly-Clark, are harvesting old-growth trees, destroying key habitat to make tissue paper.
- In the Canadian Boreal Forest, a Conservation Ethic at Work
Interview - After fighting successfully for years to keep destructive logging, hydropower and mining projects out of their traditional territory, the people of Poplar River are now working to secure permanent protection for their boreal forest homeland.
- The Truth About Kimberly-Clark's Forestry Practices
Fact Sheet - Kimberly-Clark, one of the world's largest producers of tissue paper products, responded to emails from NRDC activists with a letter expressing the company’s commitment to sustainable forestry. Here NRDC responds to Kimberly-Clark's claims.
- Good Wood: How Forest Certification Helps the Environment
FAQ - Forest certification is a seal of approval for wood and paper products, allowing consumers to use their buying power for good.
- Forest Facts
Fact Sheet - Half of the Earth's forests are already gone, and growing demand for wood threatens those that remain. On this page you'll find more facts on destructive and wasteful logging and construction practices, as well as facts on how the pressure on forests can be relieved through sustainable forestry.
- The National Forest "Roadless Area" Rule
FAQ - Questions and answers about the most significant forest conservation measure in U.S. history -- and the Bush administration's plan to dismantle it.
- The Boreal Forest: Earth's Green Crown
Photo Album - Canada's vast boreal forest is among the largest intact forest ecosystems left on earth, and must be preserved. This feature tells its story in words and pictures.
- The Canadian Boreal Forest
Fact Sheet - A quick primer on Canada's boreal forest -- the natural and cultural qualities it possesses, the problems it faces, and the solutions that could save it for future generations.
- An Interview with Chief John Miswagon of the Pimicikamak Cree
Interview - As leader of the Pimicikamak executive council since 1999, Chief John Miswagon has directed an international environmental and human rights campaign to protect his people and traditional territory from a devastating hydroelectric project dating from the 1970s, which is now threatening to expand its operations.
- Hydro is Breaking Our Hearts
Opinion - An opinion about hydropower development in Canada's Boreal Forest, from NRDC senior attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, July 15, 2004.
- Kennedy Calls for Halt to Hydro Dam Projects
News - A news account of NRDC senior attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s summer 2004 visit to Manitoba's boreal forest, first published in the Winnipeg Free Press, July 15, 2004.
- What Is Clearcutting?
Fact Sheet - Intact, healthy forests play a large role in supporting all forms of life on earth. Clearcutting means the felling and removal of all trees from a given tract of forest. Clearcutting destroys an area's ecological integrity in a number of ways.
- The Birds of Hawaii's Hakalau Forest
Photo Album - Hawaii's Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge protects endangered birds and their rainforest habitat. This photo gallery contains images of nine of Hakalau's unique forest birds.
