1st Greening Asylum Forest

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

America is home to some of the oldest, tallest and most beautiful trees in the world, like the California state tree – the California Redwood, and the Tennessee state tree – the Tulip Poplar.  From sea to shining sea, awe-inspiring trees fill our national forests. Many species of deciduous trees and various types of evergreen trees thrill us with their imposing majesty, and inspire us with breathtaking beauty. This summer millions of people will visit our country’s 155 national forests to enjoy the many recreational opportunities those forests provide.  As a renewable Read more

Thrown away or ripped up a piece of paper lately? Printed or photocopied one too many copies? Had some snide and smug colleague say “you’re killing the rainforest!” Thought that they might be right and you should stop using so much paper and maybe buy a Sting album. Well, don’t. Both of them are nonsense. There is of course an element of truth in the above remark, in the same way that if you stop breathing then there will be (slightly) more air to go around. The basis of this greatly over-used maxim really treats that trees are cut down to make paper, which is Read more