Sports Illustrated plants trees.
Every time a customer subscribes to or renews three subscriptions to the same address we will plant a tree. This is a promise from the American publishing company Time Warner, which publishes Sports Illustrated, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek and Time.
The EU supports mini-sawmillseve
EU is allocating € 2.3 million for a project in Guyana to develop the local industry around the mini-sawmills. Sawmills based on chainsaws are being used by locals in the forest and the project is expected to reduce poverty by, among other things, increasing refinement and improving safety.
Who will become Logging-Champion?
The Chainsaw-World Cup, World Logging Championship (WLC) is held in 2010 in Zagreb, Croatia, in late September. The world's best professional loggers meet for three days and compete in five events to appoint a world champion.
The preparations can be followed on the Husqvarna’s WLC-blog, who also reports directly from Croatia during the competition.
The championship is held every two years, and is divided into five events: Tree felling, fitting another chain, bucking by combined cuts, precision bucking and limbing. Every contestant must participate in all five disciplines and are assessed both individually and as a national team.
Visit Husqvarna Loggers Blog
2011 to be Year of the Forest
The United Nations has declared 2011 the "International Year of the Forest". The purpose of the campaign year is to raise awareness and promote sustainable forest management. So far, thirty countries have reported their intention to participate, including Germany and the U.S.
Visit UN Forum of Forests
Durapulp - The paper lamp (VIDEO)
After the widely talked-about paper chair “Parapu”, DuraPulp was exposed at this year's furniture fair in Milan, Italy. DuraPulp is the first desk lamp completely made from paper. Before this, paper has been used only in lamp shades. Now an entire fixture is manufactured in the renewable material. This thanks to LED technology combined with the research on new uses of wood pulp, which has been conducted by the Swedish design company Sodra Innovation.
Visit Sodra Innovation and see what can be done by paper pulp
