Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Forest’

If a Tree Falls in the Forest

No comments December 4th, 2009

I wonder if anyone has stopped to take a look at the relationship between how much time the individual average small – medium enterprise owner (or employee for that matter) places thinking about carbon emissions / footprint / global warming versus the financial future of their families in times like this. Let’s be honest. When your personal financial back is against the wall because of the rising costs of doing business, brought about by an economy that the government of the day struggles with daily, or your job is in peril bought about by the hardship of the financial Read more

Can’t See the Forest From the Trees

No comments December 4th, 2009

I always pondered on this saying and don’t think I really understood what it meant until today where I fully experienced this through a situation that presented itself for me as a perfect learning opportunity. I was driving looking for an address.”I think I know where I am going,” my sister calls me on the cell phone. Here we are talking about our plans, our dreams and our future or should I say she was, because all of a sudden I find myself lost while she is talking up a storm as to “how on fire she is” with our dream. For the past year, we have worked Read more

Why the Idea to Recycle Paper is a Necessity for the Forest Preservation

No comments December 4th, 2009

Paper production is far from representing an easy process as for one tone of paper, ninety-eight tons of wood and other materials are needed. We can’t recycle the same paper indefinitely, theoretically we can reuse paper for about six times at the maximum, but within every new paper manufactured lot, there are fresh fibers added too; so, practically we recycle newer and older fiber at the same time. Federal laws say that paper can contain between 10% and 100% recycled material. However, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggests that 50% should be fresh and 50% recycled; and Read more