Striking a green balance in cutting Canada's boreal forest
"Who wants to live in a world of constant tension between environmental and economic interests, when we all know that our future is making a whole cloth of those interests?"
– Avrim Lazar, of the Forest Products Association of Canada, quoted in The Christian Science Monitor on a landmark deal between environmentalists and timber companies for conservation and sustainable forestry in Canada’s boreal forest.
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