Earlier this month over 100 countries celebrated World Environment Day, the date set aside by the UN to encourage the protection of our shared planet. This year’s World Environment Day theme was similar to that of Earth Day 2018 – “Beat Plastic Pollution”.
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Known as the world’s largest environmental movement, Earth Day is just around the corner. And while the 2018 Earth Day theme is End Plastic Pollution, a central focus continues to be combatting deforestation.
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Most of us are familiar with the "farm-to-table" concept, which seeks to provide consumers with greater traceability of the food they eat. Springing from the public’s desire to know more about where the items they use really come from, along with those products’ wider impacts, movements like "farm-to-table" have become mainstream. So much so, they have become fodder for parodies like...
Drones are everywhere these days and quickly becoming the new future of forestry. Long piloted by the military, today they are used commercially by the agriculture, construction, real estate, and law enforcement fields.
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Sustainability: A Lifeboat for Surviving the Silver Tsunami
Domtar, like many North American manufacturers today, faces a challenge - one that currently lurks like a monster wave on the horizon, yet will inevitably arrive in the near future.
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Domtar's Windsor Paper Mill continues to support the local community with new innovation making this the intersection of tech and forestry
This year, millions of Canadians celebrated the country’s sesquicentennial, that is, the country’s 150th anniversary. That means the Confederation that unified modern-day Canada happened way back...
Imagine 131 million pounds - or the weight of 150 Boeing 747-400s ready for takeoff - well, that’s the amount of waste Domtar has kept out of landfills since 2013.
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It’s a little-known fact that more than 87 percent of forestland in the southeastern United States is the property of private woodland owners. And of this amount, nearly 2/3 is held by individuals and families – people like you and me.
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