Dogwood Alliance staff member Andrew Goldberg has been selected as a 2014 Kinship Conservation Fellow, one of only 16 environmentalists chosen from around the world. As a Kinship Fellow, From June 29 to July 30, the 2014 cohort of Fellows will take part in an exceptional learning community that prepares them to successfully implement innovative strategies in the field.
When Dogwood Alliance staff and interns visit Columbia Forest Products mill, where partner Jim Sitts showed the group how the company incorporates sustainability, FSC and the Carbon Canopy Project into its lumber practices.
June 19th and 20th marked the Spring 2014 meeting for Carbon Canopy, Dogwood Alliance’s forest carbon offsets initiative. Carbon Canopy is an innovative project that incentivizes forest conservation to create lucrative carbon sinks for landowners and valuable offsets for environmentally conscious businesses looking to reduce their footprint. Partners and stakeholders convened to discuss the state of Carbon Canopy’s mission and goals and to refocus the project’s direction.
Dogwood Alliance extends our sympathies to the Interface family with the loss of their great sustainability pioneer, Ray Anderson.
On May 12, 2011, 35 people representing several of the nation’s top companies, including publishing giants Hearst, McMillan, Scholastic and Hachette, along with financial mega-companies Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase, gathered for a Carbon Canopy Corporate Roundtable in New York City.
