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The Gotham Palate salutes Il Buco for supporting the Amazon Rainforest with its second annual Earth Day Fund-Raiser.
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To honor Earth Day (April 22), il Buco will reduce its customers total LUNCH bill by 15% for one week. In turn, il Buco will donate, out of its pocket, the 15% saved by its guests.
All proceeds will go to protecting the Amazon Rainforest through the International... Read Full Story
Earth Day, April 22, 2009 and the top 10 Earth day Songs. Earth Day was founded back in 1970 and falls on April 22nd in America each year . The holiday has grown in popularity over the decades and continues to do so with hightened attention on global climate change. Earth Day is now even celebrated by "light green" environmentalists who may not wear patchouli and attend protests, but do volunteer for clean ups, donate to environmental causes and make renewed pledges to live more gently... Read Full Story
“Going Green” has turned into big business for many. With the world consciousness becoming more aware of our destructive direction as a society, more businesses are turning to eco-friendly solutions to not only help the world, but also to help their reputation. Many have gone so far as to use green incentives to enhance their product offerings. Regardless of the motive, the result is definitely something desired by more and more people every day. We, as consumers, will buy products... Read Full Story
It was the day before Halloween but it seems that representatives of the forest industry in Quebec did a little trick or treating on Thursday at the parliamentary commission studying the health and future of the province’s forests. As usual, Louis-Gilles Francoeur of Le Devoir had the story first, reporting yesterday that what forest companies want is to cut trees and do little else—not replant the forest, or maintain roads or fight fires or any of the things they’ve been supposed to do in... Read Full Story
Cutting down forests is environmentally sound? Well, it depends how you do it and what you use its products for, it seems. A new initiative by the forest industries in Quebec, supported by scientific reports, argues that replacing steel and concrete in construction would go a long way toward more ecological construction projects. The idea is that well-managed forests are renewable and become carbon dioxide sinks, while both concrete and steel use large quantities of non-renewable resources... Read Full Story
Sometimes serendipity brings a book into my life which opens the door to memory. Such a book lately has been Roger Deakin's Wildwood: a Journey Through Trees , which I discovered, quite by chance, in an Oxford bookshop on my mother's 84th birthday. Roger was a remarkable man--among other things a founder of Common Ground (which links nature and the environment with culture)--whom the Guardian described as belonging 'to that tradition of topographical and literary writers who had one foot in... Read Full Story
Ingredients for the perfect reading tree : 1 climbable tree;1 cushion;1 comfortable fork with branch footstool and trunk backrest;1 unputdownable book;enough green leaves to hide under. These days I prefer a slung hammock, but when I was (shall we say more agile?) climbing trees with a book was my perfect escape from weeding the strawberry beds, or lugging bales of straw and slopping buckets of water over countless fields, or any other undesirable job my parents could dream up for an idle... Read Full Story
Beeches are the quintessential Hampshire tree, and, if I am honest, my favourite. Spring for me is epitomised by the sight of that first mild sunshine of April shining through the new tender leaves of beech, slightly indented at the edges and still with the fur of their birth upon them. I love the smoothness of their greeny silver trunks, and the way their roots buckle and rear out of the earth in a glorious, chaotic muddle of growth. These are the dryad trees, elegant formed and whispering... Read Full Story
Sustainable management of nature's forest and woodland resources is of prime importance to the health of the planet it's bio-diversity and consequently the future of mankind
The interdependence between all forms of life on the planet means that conservation of our forests and woodlands is essential for the preservation of human kind. Through care and management we can make good use of this sustainable resource for future generations.
How many of us really understand the real cost of the... Read Full Story
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has just released State of the World’s Forests 2009 (English, Spanish), the latest update of its annual overview of forest resources worldwide. While it does not shed significant new light or offer new data on forest cover and the state of deforestation in Latin America and the Caribbean [...] Read Full Story
