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[Jennifer Marohasy] Jennifer Marohasy: The Price of Woodchip: I would also like to add that it is probably not the prefered option to export woodchips, but if there is no industry locally that wants the product, you are left with a choice of taking it or leaving it. Bearing in mind that some of the best sawn material is sourced from olgrowth as well, and as all of you know it is very difficult to manage selective harvesting in wet forest, due to the difficulty in regenerating eucalypts under a canopy, and managing the risk of fire from the high fuel loads generated from the logging slash.

[frogblog] frogblog » The Emissions Trading Scheme: time for your thoughts: Is there a market, say for native wood, which equates to the volume of the market for radiata pine, which would provide an economic platform to encourage investment in this type of farm? Radiata is popular because of its speed to maturity and consistency of demand, if (for instance) Rimu does not have such a ready market, and your tax on tax makes radiata uneconomic, we would end up with less tree mass than we currently have, reducing our carbon absorbing capability.

[Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent] Halloween and the nanny state | Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by ...: This, coupled with the emergence of American cotton as a superior type (due to the longer, stronger fibers of the two domesticated native American species, Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense), encouraged British traders to purchase cotton from plantations in the United States and the Caribbean. This was also much cheaper as it was produced by unpaid slaves.

[articles by Chris Lang] Plantations, poverty and power: Section 2 « chrislang.org: The company claims not to have any impact on native forests in Thailand, conveniently forgetting that in 1990 company employees were caught red-handed clearing forest to make way for eucalyptus plantations.[187] Advance Agro’s plantations have been one factor leading to the deforestation of large areas of eastern Thailand. Other factors include road building (partly built during the war in Indochina to link bases for US troops with the port at Chon Buri and also to access Cambodia’s forests), and promotion of large-scale industrial agriculture by the government with support from the World Bank.

[FRIDE english] A delicate business / articles / Broker - Broker: According to Ruth Pearson, the cheap labour provided by women is not only a matter of low wages in developing countries, but above all a matter of what their wage does not cover in terms of ”˜social reproduction’. In the West, working women can generally rely on income support from the government, usually in the form of child benefit and maternity leave, and they benefit from various health care programmes before, during and after pregnancy.

[Grist - Climate & Energy] On the oddity of privatizing nature | Grist: Backcut, there are at least several native species of trees which rely on fire to spread their seeds. They will drop their seeds when their lower portions are burned, as for their seeds to take advantage of the cleared vegetation and .

[Thinking Made Easy] Thinking made Easy: According to Kushairi and Rajanaidu (2000), various planting materials are also being produced by the industry in order to meet the industrial and market needs for oil palm. These include the development of dwarf palms, production of high unsaturated oil with increased iodine content, production of high lauric oil as well as development of oil with increased carotenoid value.

[The Chapter 18 Project] Introduction to Chapter 18 | Thomas L. Friedman: Across the tropics, sugarcane, pineapple and other plantation crops have decimated native ecosystems. Sadly, these and other (here comes palm oil) crops have been subsidized, exploited, and often, abandoned, leaving vast fields of opportunistic and invasive non native species that serve as pools of spreading, aggressive plants that hammer the last of the remaining ecosystems.

[Senator Shafer's Blog] Senator Shafer’s Blog » Deer Baiting: There is now no reason at all to hunt…we do not need the food from wild animals any longer…The only reason hunting still exists is for pure pleasure…But pleasure of what…killing a defenseless being…Oh yea…that is a real sport…tracking down and killing a defenseless being….and most of the hunters out there are not even skilled enough to kill what they are shooting at so we have so many wounded animals out there that die a long and slow death…As far as baiting…I can not think of a more cowardice act…Our children and grandchildren will look back in disgust at this one day.

[The Daily PCIJ] The Daily PCIJ » Blog Archive » Didipio villagers appeal SC ruling ...: Those holding FTAAs like Climax-Arimco, are allowed to recover their pre-operating and property expenses .The Death Penalty Law is debated on ethical, moral, philosophical and other grounds but the Mining Act’s deadly and devastating effects on communities for generations are very real and actual ”” a whole-sale death sentence on Filipinoss .

[The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss] The Weekend Retirement Test Drive: Groundhog Day and the Rest of ...: Part of the process I’m going through right now is setting up my own company and looking at the patent process. I spent several hours continuing my on-going research in these areas, brainstorming on the name I’m going to use, and adding a new element to the product’s design (Mindjet is Amazing for this btw).

[Recent Comments on Mises Economics Blog] Why Are Wages Low in Developing Countries? - Mises Economics Blog: Any honest farmer even with a tractor and all farm machinery could not have outcompeted the plantation owner due to simple reason of unfair labor conditions. In such situation no matter what an honest farmer does, no matter how well he treats his paid workers, gives incentives, he will always be on the loosing end of the "free" market competition...

[patrick.net] patrick.net » Blog Archive » Top 1% own half of everything: I don’t know what happened to the hard working immigrant spirit since last week I heard on NPR that only about half the kids that start High School in Urban schools graduate and about half the kids that actually “graduate” can’t even do 8th grade level math.

[Jennifer Marohasy] Jennifer Marohasy: Alan Ashbarry: Back to serious logging er blogging, what has me wondering is why TCA posts don’t ever refer to Commonwealth data that underpins their RFA process. In fact it underpins a probable international carbon trading system where we could well be asked to promote wood retention in trade offs as opposed to staying in the cheap chips rat race down south.

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