As the days get hotter, the number of Southerners standing up to protect and fight for forests increases steadily: it’s almost as if unrest is in direct proportion to the degrees on a thermometer. Summertime in the South conjures up images of being sleepy and slow-moving; and yet, the opposition to burning forests for fuel is livelier than ever.
Congrats to April Canada the grand prize winner of our photo contest! Dogwood Alliance collaborated with Our State Magazine to create a photo contest in which contestants submitted their best North Carolina Coastal photo.
During our last spring semester, six fellow students and I worked together on a UNC Capstone course project with Dr. Andrew George, focused on bioenergy in the Carolinas. Though we were all students of the same program, we had varying sub-interests within the bioenergy umbrella.
Dogwood Alliance has been greatly anticipating the arrival of our new Advancement Systems Manager, Kelly Ball.
In April 2016 the US Green Building Council (USGBC) announced a new pilot credit that rewards the use of wood certified under the timber industry-backed Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI).
