Not exact matches
We're
at the bottom of the pack and almost every
other week another coal mine or
forest product mill is laying off workers, eliminating shifts or closing down altogether.
According to the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC),
forests at home and abroad are being destroyed to make toilet paper, facial tissues, paper towels and
other disposable paper
products.
One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and
other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building
products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as
Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and
other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade
products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be
at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.
Variations of these and
other practices are
at the center of Life Plans, many of which aim to cultivate indigenous economies built on the harvesting of non-timber
forest products such as Brazil nuts and acai, or the sale of handicrafts and the development of ecotourism strategies.
The public trust doctrine has not been widely discussed in Canadian case law with the only significant mention being by the Supreme Court of Canada in British Columbia v. Canadian
Forest Products Ltd., 2004 SCC 38
at para. 74 where Binnie J. acknowledged that «The notion that there are public rights in the environment that reside in the Crown has deep roots in the common law» (however, the majority decision ultimately took a conservative approach to not allow the Crown to succeed in a general claim for damages for «environmental loss» [caused by a negligently undetected controlled burn of slashing and
other waste by a logging company] in the absence of a statutory scheme permitting such a claim).