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Broadly defined, social marketing is the practice of applying traditional, commercial marketing techniques with the goal of influencing the behavior of the target audience. Most commonly, the intent is to achieve a positive social impact. To date, there has been scant use of social marketing for the purpose of influencing forestry-related behaviors, although potential benefits…

Good info on MTR in Tennessee from Chris Irwin at the awesome United Mountain Defense:: UMD has found several streams with high phosphate readings beneath new clear cuts and strip mines in several quads in tennessee. Literally we hit streams with phosphate readings off the chart on our Lamottes test. … No one from OSM…

Kimberly-Clark, P&G, Georgia-Pacific get failing grades Major tissue and toilet paper manufacturers received failing environmental grades from the conservation group WWF on Wednesday for not doing enough to prove their timber comes from sustainable sources. While the paper giants are increasingly aware of the need to address unsustainable forest exploitation, illegal logging and land rights…

While this goes on: From iLoveMountains.org tip-o-the-hat to United Mountain Defense

A terrible fire has broken out in Apex. Best wishes and a safe return to our friends in the area. UPDATE: Good news. Early reports seem to indicate that everyone is alright!

Linkies 10-06-06: HIGHTOWER EDITION Everyone needs to meet our nation’s most popular populist Jim Hightower: Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find…

My town turned a corner this week. By a vote of 4-1 the Boone Town Council passed a measure that limits enormous ugly apartments from being built on steep slopes. Seems smart doesnt it? Well, developers threw every weapon that had, including vicious personal attacks, at the Town Council. I once ran for that office,…

tip-o-the-hat to Hillbilly Savants! ROANOKE, Va. – Black lung disease is posing a greater threat to coal miners in far southwest Virginia, and scientists aren’t sure why. A report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the number of cases of black lung disease is rising in Lee and Wise…

This work greatly increases the chances that we will be able to save Blair Mountain, one of our most historic treasures, from the coal companies who have an MTR permit applied for Blair Mountain. Learn more about Blair Mountain, and see it in Google Earth at the National Memorial for the Mountains… “You can’t put…

[ Georgia ] Close to home, the Georgia Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation is fighting the good fight. This past May, Nathan Klaus, a wildlife biologist with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, found a mature American chestnut on Pine Mountain in Harris County . The tree was subsequently hand-pollinated by members of the…