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When Trees Attack: Woman Impaled by Falling Limb

Trees are not always our friends. Just ask Sonny Bono… oh, wait, you can’t. Because A TREE KILLED HIM. Well, you can ask Michelle Childers, the woman who miraculously survived being impaled in the neck by a wayward tree limb that was hell-bent on destruction.
Childers was enjoying a leisurely drive on a rural road in [...]

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Growing Chair: From the Forest to Your Living Room

Instead of cutting trees down to create chairs, why not create chairs made from living trees? That’s the idea behind the ‘Growing Chair’, an attempt to make trees and plants grow into chairs that can be harvested and brought straight from the ‘field’ to your living room.
Designer Michael Bussein describes his vision:
The Nature Manifesto
Having evolved [...]

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The 5 Best Kinds of Tree-Free Paper

Try as we may to cut back our use of paper as much as possible, we still need to use it from time to time. Luckily, you don’t have to be responsible for cutting down trees in order to do so. Planet Green has compiled a list of the 5 best types of tree-free paper, [...]

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Global Warming Caused Death Rate of Forests in West to Double

The forests of the West, from New Mexico to British Columbia, are becoming one of North America’s most potent signs of global warming. The death rate of old-growth forests across the West has doubled in recent decades, and planting new trees simply isn’t keeping up with the speed at which forests are losing trees to [...]

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Which is the Greener Christmas Tree: Faux, Fresh Cut, or Potted?

Does buying that new, freshly cut live Christmas tree contribute to deforestation? Is buying an artificial tree made of petrochemicals worth the reusability benefits? Is buying a live potted tree really the best option? Eco-conscious consumers readying their homes for the holidays have these kinds of questions swirling through their minds as they try to [...]

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More Pine Forests Succumbing to Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation

The bark beetle problem extending from New Mexico to British Columbia is getting worse, turning the region’s signature pine forests from green to rust red. Montana has already lost a million acres, and the news in Colorado and southern Wyoming is even worse. In Montana’s capital city, Helena, loggers are racing to cut down infected [...]

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