crates | June 29, 2007
Not too many years ago, a French company after comparing satellite images said that Washington state had cut relatively more forest than had been cleared in the Amazonian rain forest. This came at a time when alarms were being spread around the world concerning the rate at which the rainforests of that area were disappearing. Weyerhaeuser (“the tree growing company”) responded indignantly by [...]
Category: Ecology |
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Tags: biodiversity, Clear cutting, environment, forest depletion, Global Warming, logging, nature, species diversity, tree farms, Weyerhaeuser
crates | April 13, 2007
I traveled to Seattle yesterday on the bus ($3.00) and returned on the commuter train ($4.00). The trip on the train was new for me and is by far the preferred method. It travels down the Green River Valley through the countryside which is now bright green with new Spring leaves. I haven’t been through [...]
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Tags: environment, flowers, Seattle Pike Place Market, tulips
