Sentence examples for forestry initiative from inspiring English sources

Todd Paglia, the executive director of ForestEthics, said that his group took its concerns to the F.T.C. because it believed that the revised guidelines specifically cover organizations like the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.

In May, the groups claimed that a certification group originally formed by timber interests, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, was certifying timber products even when they had been harvested with destructive methods.

In his State of the State address last week, Gov. George E. Pataki said he would introduce an urban forestry initiative to plant thousands of trees in communities and parks across the state.

This week lawyers for ForestEthics, a nonprofit group dedicated to protecting forests, filed administrative complaints with the Federal Trade Commission and the Internal Revenue Service challenging the credibility of the rival label, known as the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, or S.F.I.

ForestEthics and Greenpeace charge that the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, or S.F.I., a group originally formed by big timber companies, defrauds the public by certifying that products carrying its label are harvested using only environmentally responsible practices.

But, in another chapter, he reports the chilling effect of a forestry initiative: "As they dangled millions of dollars in front of starving organizations, the funding group... stipulated that no one advocating zero cut, criticizing corporations by name, or producing ads that did so would be eligible".

Another time, he ignored a report — which was commissioned at significant expense from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company — on how the foundation could get involved in forestry initiatives.

To address this issue, social forestry initiatives emerged in the early 1980's and lasted until the end of the century (Leede et al., 1999).

To better understand and support community forestry initiatives, their associations and similar agrarian organizations should be viewed in dynamic rather than static terms, and the central role local participants play in adapting their own organizations recognized.

The results from this city-specific mitigation project will inform messaging campaigns aimed at engaging the city decision makers, industry, and the public in the green building and urban forestry initiatives.

Carbon forestry initiatives in Uganda raise questions of justice, given that people with comparatively negligible carbon footprints are affected by land use changes initiated by the desire of wealthy people, firms, and countries to reduce their more extensive carbon footprints.