Dogwood Alliance, as you know, is a proud proponent of clean, renewable energy, forest conservation and efficiency, and taking responsibility for our planet. One of the ways you can help create a movement of environmental consciousness is through our friends and partners at Eco Arts Awards, where you can get creative and express your love for the earth through your art.
It’s almost time to harvest hops for beer brewing, a favorite pastime here in the South, and in the true fashion of celebrating all things ‘hoppy’, our partner, Terrapin Beer, will be hosting their 4th annual Hop Harvest Festival to benefit Dogwood Alliance!
Originally published in the Raleigh News & Observer. Written by Dr. Andrew George. There are some obvious ironies in logging trees, shipping them to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and burning them in European power stations under the guise of “green energy.” In fact, the most recent data show that burning whole trees is worse (per unit of energy) for the environment than burning fossil fuels like coal.
Dogwood supporter Alan White’s Letter to the Editor of the Charlotte Observer on the export of NC wetland wood turned to pellets for Europe to burn for electricity.
Guest blog post from By Dr. Robert J. Cabin, Professor of Ecology, Brevard College on the potentially disastrous effects of wood pellet exports to Europe on our valuable Southern US wetland forests.
