Sustainability Stories

In Alberta, Canada, high school students interested in natural resource management can spend a summer gaining skills and making connections through the Junior Forest Ranger program, operated by the province’s Ministry of Forestry and Parks. ... Read More

In March, our North Florida Mega Industrial Park welcomed its first tenant, AgroLiquid, a Michigan-based fertilizer manufacturer. The groundbreaking ceremony, where representatives from AgroLiquid, Weyerhaeuser and local, state and federal officials celebrated the milestone by breaking ground with green-bladed shovels, was the culmination of years of planning for the 2,622-acre mega park. ... Read More

Millions of kids across America face big decisions when they graduate high school, and one challenge common to many students in rural communities is whether they’ll need to move to a bigger city to find career opportunities. But what if that was a choice those kids didn’t have to make? ... Read More

Several members of our Weyerhaeuser team recently returned from Climate Week NYC. The annual gathering, held this year from Sept. 22 to 29, brings together business and sustainability leaders from across the public and private sectors to discuss the ongoing global response to climate change. The week of events coincides with the United Nations General Assembly and has become one of the highest-profile and most important venues for shaping international conversations around the climate crisis. ... Read More

Five years after the Greenhouse Gas Protocol launched an effort to extend guidance to carbon removals and land use, inviting the promise of a new global standard for forest carbon accounting, we still don’t have agreement or a clear path forward. Disagreements and differing approaches have scuttled progress toward building an effective consensus, and meanwhile the consequences of our inaction compound. ... Read More