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• Ayen Enerji AS-AYEN on IST (Istanbul), power co-2 hydro, 2 windfarms-Caypinar + Korkmaz, also forest replanting
• Caraustar Industries- CSAR on NASDAQ, paperboard and plastic recycling.
• Concert Industries Ltd.- CNG on TSX.V, air-laid paper products - less effluent waste.
• Domtar Inc.- DTC on TSX, NYSE, EarthChoice paper. Huge paper producer that is making huge efforts in practices and products.
• Earth Sanctuaries-on Bendigo Stock Market, world's first listed conservation company. note: some financial troubles to start 2002.
• FedEx Corporation- FDX on NYSE, for changing all its envelopes to recycled paperboard source.
• Hitachi Construction Machinery Co-has sold 100 carbon-offset forestry machines.
• Home Depot- HD on NYSE, hardware, no lumber from old growth forest policy. , 2 year $380,000 grant to the Forest Stewardship Council to develop a global forestry registry that will help co's asure they purchase wood that is harvested in an environmentally responsible manner. Home Depot does not buy 'old growth' harvested wood, and this effort shows they have more interest in this.
• Kimberly-Clark-KMB on NYSE, August 2009 and Greenpeace agree to historic measures to protect Canada's Boreal Forest.
• Kinkos- does not use old growth forests in its paper products.
• Lowe's- LOW on NYSE, London, Pacific. hardware, no lumber from old growth forest policy.,
• Maple Leaf Reforestation-MPE on TSX, grows seedlings in greenhouse in China for reforestation.
• (Precious Woods)-(PRWN on SWX Switzerland), (-)indicates one needs to do ones research- sustainable forest management in 3000Km2 in Brazil, and Costa Rica. In Costa Rica the co reforests pastureland with teak trees. Teak in it's natural growth state is spread out- Teak as grown on the new Costa Rican treefarms that look like orchards is harmful to the soil as a concentration of fallen teak leaves acidizes the soil excessively (apparently nature has a reason for naturally spacing teak trees with large distances inbetween). This info from a farmer and others in Costa Rica who are not in favour of the concept of growing Teak in plantation style land use systems because of what it does to the soil.
• PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund- PRT.UN on TSX, forest seedling growing business.
• Rio Tinto has a [2005] 750,000 tons/year Ilmenite (TiO2) mine in Madagascar that involves cutting down some of the last rainforest in Madagascar. The issue is well presented on the website. Would need to be a mining engineer/geologist to know if there were no better sources of TiO2 available globally, and more of a specialist on TiO2 to understand if tearing down a rainforest could be justified environmentally.
• RONA, FSC lumber, 2008
• Staples, to phase out paper products made from wood from endangered forests.
• Straight Plc-STT on AIM London, supplies recycle containers, recycles pallets.
• Tamil Nadu Newsprint + Papers Ltd-531426 on BOM, wood-free bagasse-based paper, 28MW wind.
• Unilever Plc-on London, US, agreed with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in their call for a moratorium on deforestation for palm oil.
• WorldWideGreen-not on markets, can invest in teak tree reforestation. not sure if this is plantation style 'reforestation' or not, see-Precious Woods note.

LINKS

• 56 Japanese banks-April 2009, 'Regional Bank Federation for Protecting Japanese Forests', plus Japanese forest conservation summit in December 2009 in Kyoto.
• Paying For Ecosystems-an environmental scheme now being trialled in Vietnam, one in the Dong Nai River Basin and the other in Son La province.
• Carbon Positive-Forest Carbon resource centre, Forest Carbon Standards.
• CIFORreport on investors losing billions on environmentally destructive pulp mills by Consultive Group on International Agricultural Research on ens-newswire.
• Citigroup, world's largest bank, 2004 determines to not finance the destruction of old growth forests anywhere in the world.
• FACT Net-Forest, Farm, and Community Tree Network
• FFDP-Forest Footprint Disclosure Project, annual Global Forest Footprints Report, includes info on forests torn down to make room for biofuel crops.
• GCS-Global Conservation Standard. Conservation Credits for carbon reservoirs, commercial environmental easement programme.
• HSBC has a forest loans review policy. but: Global Witness-reports, spring 2007, that involvement in IPO of Samling violates these guidelines. Turns out Samling is being sued by 2 groups in Malaysian courts- locals vs forest co., and subs Barama had in January 2007 its' FSC certification suspended.
• i-tree tools-urban forestry analysis + benefits assessment tool. computer program from Google that calculates CO2 absorption rate of an entire eco-system and amount of carbon sequestered.
• Malua BioBank-rainforest conservation project in Sabah, see also Malua Wildlife Habitat Conservation Bank
• Map of last forests-Greenpeace info about remaining forests.
• Nature Conservancy-live nest-cam of bald eagle chick.
• PulpWatch
• Rainforest Portal-campaign to end ancient forest logging
• RAN-Rainforest Action Network
• Resources for the Future- Global Forest Carbon Mechanism, global market for forest carbon assets.
• REDD-The Forest Dialogue's Initiative on Forests and Climate Change summary at Worldwatch Institute
• Toyota- afforestation initiative of thousands of hectares of land.
• WBCSD-report available: Ecosystems Publication, 2 Feb 09.
• WBCSD-report available: Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-based Products Guide and Resource Kit, 4 Feb 09.
• WBCSD-report available: Valuing the Priceless, 12 Dec 08.
• WWF-World Wildlife Fund
• WWF-report available: Amazon could prosper thanks to emission payments, be lost without, 10 Feb 09.
• note that there is a triple greenwashing kerfuffle happening now regarding FSC certification standards/greenwashing which in Clayoquot Sound certifies controversial 'conservation economy' logging of old growth rainforest [kerfuffle 1. Q. how does one 'sustainably' log 900+ year old trees? A. one can't -unless wait 900 years for a second cut -which makes the term 'conservation' in the Ecotrust's 'conservation economy' ideas a greenwashing concept in Clayoquot Sound -whereas it no doubt is a good idea elsewhere] timber as FSC certified whereas [kerfuffle 2. -] hardware stores that claim in good faith to have 'no old growth lumber' policies depend on FSC certified lumber to be truely no old growth cut lumber. [kerfuffle 3. -] Various environmental groups are putting pressure on FSC to return to the integrity of original FSC standards, with no old growth lumber certification returning to truly meaning no old growth lumber.

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