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A new way to treat wood has trees back in the limelight: a hardwood’s reliability that even a rain forest mahogany tree can love.

Check out the world’s first heavy traffic road bridge made from Accoya® wood. The bridge, located in Sneek in the Netherlands, is “the first wooden bridge in the world that can support the heaviest load class of 60 tons”. At this week’s Wall Street Green Trading Summit, a panel on forestation introduced a new way of [...]

The longer I am here at the Wall Street Green Trading Summit, the less this feels like anything to do with environmentalism. At some point, when does off-setting stop being feasible, and when does carbon reduction become the name of the game?

The summit is over for today, but I wanted to throw some concluding thoughts out after an afternoon spent discussing good business models for producing alternative energy and for overhauling our current electrical grid.

Excuse Me, Waiter? What Year is this Carbon?

We’re coming at you live with special Red, Green, and Blue coverage from New York’s very own Wall Street Green Trading Summit.

Photo source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adreamer_awd/90778278/Start the countdown! Less than 24 nail-biting hours remain until the start of what is potentially the biggest party the world has ever seen, and you’re invited. Starting Saturday morning, the Live Earth concert series will host more than 100 music artists (including Madonna, Metallica, Dave Mathews Band, and The Police, just to name a few) for 24 hours on 7 continents and as many as 2 billion people

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