Bioenergy Day Recognizes Sector’s Contributions to Forest Health, Rural Jobs Across America
(Solutions from the Land) Today, we join stakeholders around the country in observance of National Bioenergy Day, recognizing the importance of using domestic biomass for a wide variety of applications, including renewable energy, heating and cooling, and biobased products, to improve forest health, mitigate climate change, create jobs and strengthen communities in rural America.
Solutions from the Land (SfL) and its renewable energy platform, 25x’25, join a wide range of other groups that are demonstrating today that sustainable use of biomass is among important, holistic solutions that mitigate the effects already being seen in U.S. forests due to climate change. Using excess biomass resources that are produced from existing forest management activities – as well as wastes from the forest products sector – supports forest health while reducing wildfire risk. And it should not be forgotten that all of these activities create economic opportunity for beleaguered rural America, generating local jobs and boosting economic activity. READ MORE
Over 120 groups from around the world declare large scale forest biomass energy a dangerous ‘delusion’ (Dogwood Alliance/Globe Newswire)