Following up from our earlier post, Nature Air, the world’s first certified carbon neutral airline, further highlighted Reforest the Tropics (RTT) on its blog by describing the history of the RTT applied research program and interviewing corporate and academic participants and observers. The authors described an interview they conducted with Professor Gordon T. Geballe of [...]
Archive for the ‘RTT in the Press’ Category
11 Feb
NatureAir Blog Features RTT
NatureAir, a passenger airline in Costa Rica, is the world’s first certified carbon neutral airline. Since 2004, NatureAir has helped protect and conserve over 500 acres of tropical forests in the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica. They also have the distinction of being Costa Rica’s first biodiesel aviation fueling company. NatureAir’s strong environmental credentials have [...]
7 Feb
RTT Plans Partnership with the Hotchkiss School
The Hotchkiss School is working to offset some of the carbon emissions associated with an upcoming conference, the 2009 Americas Region Round Square Conference. The conference, which focuses on issues of environmental sustainability, will be held at the school from April 20-25, 2009. Hotchkiss is raising funds from conference participants to plant a carbon-offset forest to be managed [...]
19 Jan
RTT Featured as Case Study in Peer Reviewed Article
An article just published this month in the journal New Forests features Reforest the Tropics (RTT) as a case study for reforestation as a model for climate change mitigation. In particular, the article highlights RTT as one of only two organizations surveyed that has proposed concrete climate change adaptation methods. The abstract of the article [...]
27 Sep
Dr. Barres Named Eco-preneur
Dr. Herster Barres, founder of Reforest the Tropics, Inc., was recently named one of ten eco-preneurs in Connecticut by CT Green Scene. Thanks to Heather Burns-DeMelo, editor of the blog, for this recognition. Read more about it here.
8 Sep
RTT Featured in the New London Day
The New London Day published a feature article Reforest The Tropics and its president, Dr. Herster Barres. The Day described the history of RTT as follows: Long before Al Gore went Hollywood, Barres, a retired United Nations forester, was focused on global warming. In 1993, he founded Reforest The Tropics, or RTT, a nonprofit organization [...]
9 Jun
Reforest the Tropics Receives Connecticut Sun’s “Community MVP” Award
The Connecticut Sun, currently the top-ranked team in the WNBA, honored Reforest the Tropics last week with its “Community MVP” award. The award recognizes RTT’s ongoing efforts to sequester greenhouse gas emissions and fight global warming. The Connecticut Sun play basketball at the Mohegan Sun Arena, which is located at the Mohegan Sun Casino. The [...]
25 Apr
Curtis Packaging Corp. and RTT Featured in Hartford Courant
The Hartford Courant featured Reforest the Tropics and one of our new partners, Curtis Packaging Corp., in a recent article entitled “Firm Donates Money to Plant Trees, Offset Its Carbon Dioxide.” The full article is here. The correspondent described the carbon offset project between Curtis Packaging and RTT as follows: Don Droppo Jr. joined the [...]
22 Jan
RTT in the New York Times
The New York Times recently mentioned Reforest the Tropics and its Director, Dr. Herster Barres, in an article focusing on a local chapter of GreenDrinks International, a social networking group of eco-minded professionals. Read the NYT article here. Also, read a related posting on CT Green Scene here. CT Green Scene is a green-minded web site [...]
16 Jul
RTT Wins Hybrid Car Race
An RTT-sponsored Honda Insight, pictured below, won Southeastern Connecticut’s first hybrid car race. Driver Scott Keller averaged a record-setting 74.9 miles per gallon during the race. Read more about RTT’s “Eco-Car” here. THE RTT ECO CAR: 2 ½ TONNES OF ANNUAL CO2 EMISSIONS, OFFSET IN A FOREST FOR THE LIFETIME OF THE CAR This Honda [...]
