On April 28th, the Arbor Day Foundation awarded Dominion Power’s Project Plant It! one of its 2012 Arbor Day Awards. The irony here of course is that while Dominion is planting trees and reportedly “sparking a love of trees in children,” the company is gearing up for the wholesale burning of forests for electricity…
North Carolina based forest protection organization, Dogwood Alliance, was denied entry this morning to the Sustainable Operations Summit even though the group had been invited to attend by the conference organizers. It was soon discovered that the refusal of admittance came as a result of a request from Yum!Brands/KFC, whose Chief Sustainability Officer, Roger McClendon, is speaking on a panel at today’s conference.
Major shake up at ArborGen, the company trying to release GE Eucalyptus in the Southern US. Groups opposed to release include Dogwood Alliance, Global Justice Ecology Project, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club and more.
Can the Team Embrace Their New Star’s Strategy and Make the Sweet 16? Or Will They Continue to Hack and Slash to an Early Exit?
