Spotted Owl

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Way Back In The Day, I was driving up the Redwood Highway when I overtook a logging truck which had a bumper-sticker that said: "If you don't think you need forest products, wipe your a _ _ with a Spotted Owl." Even though I am an environmental fundamentalist, I thought this was hilarious, because the loggers have a point: The Left almost never offers practical solutions to many of the issues they protest.
Paper made from wood pulp is inferior to paper made from many other plants. Rice, cotton, flax, kenaf, bamboo and hemp all make paper that is superior in quality to paper made from trees. These plants are also truly "renewable resources," because they grow much faster than trees, and are more productive. One acre of hemp makes as much paper as four acres of trees. And what's wrong with plastic? Plastics are extremely useful. Plastic made from oil is toxic and persistent. Plastic made from plants will biodegrade, and can be composted.
I am not sure how growing hemp, which is non-psychoactive, can be illegal in a free, capitalist country, especially when we desperately need new sources of revenue, as well as "job creation." Prohibiting someone from an economic opportunity sounds like restraint of trade. But while that's being worked out, the CVPFPC could start producing toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, tissue, diapers, and other products from bamboo and kenaf.
The CVPFPC will provide training in bio-dynamic agriculture, biomass production, paper making, producing plastic,fiber, and oil from plants, marketing, and business administration. A business model that is worker-owned and managed will avoid most of the problems that plague our manufacturing sector today.