The Sahel region is the front line in the struggle between an ever threatening Sahara Desert and efforts to maintain and extend the fertility of West African soil. But local farmers have a secret weapon – the gao tree. By letting these indigenous trees, which are perfectly adapted to the region’s conditions, flourish among their crops, the farmers have been ...

As we struggle to reduce the footprint of our modern way of life, we are faced with many dilemmas, but none more regularly than when it comes to buying food.

How many times have you heard someone say as they pick up their Sunday newspaper, “Boy, I wonder how many trees were cut down to make this?” It might be the New York Times, or London’s Sunday Times, or any major newspaper in the world that now falls with a thud on the doorstep, or requires almost two hands to ...

A note from Australia’s minister of the environment to Zerofootprint founder and CEO Ron Dembo.

The most familiar plea made by environmentalists warning us of the immanent disappearance of this or that species is a question: how will we explain the absence of the polar bear, or the manatee, or a certain species of eagle, to our children?

It ...

Below is a letter to founder and CEO Ron Dembo from Forest Ethics, urging him and others to take a stand against the catalogue industry, which needlessly consumes so many trees. We can all join this campaign.

The Audubon Society released a report about North America’s declining bird population. The news isn’t good. We are killing one of nature’s great legacies.

The report, released last week, received a dismissive yawn from the Canadian and American main stream press. Their collective ...