What is a forest? This answer may vary depending on the person answering: − For the forestry industry, it's timber − For climate change negotiations, it's tons of stored carbon − For nature merchants, it's the place where air, water, biodiversity, and ancestral knowledge are produced […]
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The Citizen Forum for the Future of Guayaquil's Dry Forests, which will be held at Casa Grande University on June 19, aims to provide a forum for discussion and analysis among local stakeholders interested in the management and conservation of the canton's dry forest remnants. The meeting will articulate the various […]
"The Tree Factory" by Miguel Gillaranz is the first ecological novel of the 21st century; a book somewhere between fiction and essay. Its protagonist, Clara, has a grand dream in the form of a project: to plant a million trees. It introduces ecological concepts such as climate change, the environmental footprint, and […]
Favorite tree of the author of The Silence of the Forest. Daniel López (Dinho), a member of the Espol volunteer group, poet, and nature lover, shares a new work. The silence of the forest, in the words of its author, is a gift to nature. I wonder, as I look at the forest: What secrets does each plant hold? What mysteries do its trees […]
Writers from around the world, including Günter Grass (Nobel Prize winner in 1999), J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter), and Chilean author Isabel Allende, are actively committed to recycling, pressuring publishers to print their books on recycled paper. It is estimated that sales of the book in Canada alone will generate […]
