Executive Director, Danna Smith, is a finalist for the honor Outstanding Conservationist at Wild South’s 6th Annual Roosevelt-Ashe Conservation Awards.
Dogwood’s Danna is Up for a Conservation Award
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Our Forests. Our Strength.
Ending the Rush to Burn
Burning the forests that are supposed to be our best defense against climate change to protect us against climate change has to be one of the most ridiculous ideas I’ve ever heard. Yet over the last few years, Europe has wholeheartedly embraced this false solution to climate change, and we’ve seen a dramatic increase in logging in the Southern US to fuel European demand. Along the way, the US South has become the largest wood pellet export region in the world.
Biomass Victory in Vermont – Are the EPA and the South Listening?
The Vermont Public Service Board denied the North Sprinfield Sustainable Energy biomass plant a certificate of public good on the basis of greenhouse gas emissions.
UK Government Investigates Wood Pellet Industry in US South
Last week Dr. Anna Stephenson, a scientist from DECC, flew from London to Raleigh, North Carolina to begin a two week investigation of the forest and climate impacts associated with the UK’s increasing reliance on imported wood pellets as a fuel source for generating electricity.
Conservation Groups Convene to Combat the Exploding Wood Pellet Export Industry in the South
Dogwood Alliance convened a meeting for Dr. Stephenson with a number of conservation groups concerned about the exploding wood pellet export industry in the South and the impacts on forests, climate and our rural coastal communities.