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Gifford Pinchot

By on September 13, 2010 in Sustainability Efforts in History, Uncategorized

“The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.”

“Conservation is the foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, lands and minerals, for the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time.”

Gifford Pinchot’s love for being in the woods led him to become Chief of the Division of Forestry in 1898. He first graduated from Yale, but when no school in the United States had a Forestry degree went to Nancy, France to learn more on the subject.  When he returned to the U.S., he worked at Vanderbilt’s Biltmore Forest Estate and was involved with the National Forest Commission where he traveled to the west looking for possible forest reserves.… Read the rest

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Lower Your Pet’s Carbon Footprint

By on July 22, 2010 in Sustainability General

by Jennifer Lefebvre

For so many of us, our pets are a part of our family.  We feed them, pamper them, and treat them very well.  And, if you are a responsible pet owner, on your daily walks, you make sure to clean up after Fido’s bathroom breaks; maybe even being green by using your old grocery bags to scoop it up.  But have any of us ever stopped to think about the impact that particular bag of poop has on the environment? 

The U.S.… Read the rest

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