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A huge swath of Canada’s northern Boreal forest will be permanently protected from tree harvesting and mining as part of a plan to combat climate change, the Province of Ontario’s premier Dalton McGuinty announced Monday.

The ultimate question: How can we make money off of our forests without destroying them? Answer that, and we will have the answer to many of our environmental, social, and even economic problems.

This seems to be a bit old, but I haven't found it here in hugg.com and I think it's a nice article. "Arborist Loren Westenberger moved a 125-ton 100-year-old live oak, 120 feet from the center of the lot where an addition to the Church of Scientology is being built in Clearwater, Florida.

Look at what Branch Hill Tree Farm does. As a non-profit tree farm, this is their goal: "Our mission is to purchase land, to produce quality products on the land, to share the land, and to protect the land.

To teach through these acts sound forestry and conservation and agricultural practices.

To educate others of the need for these practices by sharing the joys which the manage land's multiple uses provide."

Activist organization Nature Canada wants a fully funded, fully supported Environment Canada and Canadian Wildlife Service.

"The kitchen is littered with quart mason jars full of various colors and smells, the fridge is home to some finished products and ongoing ferments (like sourdough starter) and our small basement holds a crock of developing sauerkraut."

According to the World Bank ’s Global Environment Facility, a big loophole in the Kyoto Protocol is making it harder to protect dwindling forests and stave off global warming.