The source of technological knowledge about Pinus to the Iberian-Latin American societyAnd a number of other conifers and some hardwoods trees, too...
PinusLetter was a written technical publication, digitally edited and distributed to interested parties of society through a mailing list or by direct access to the https://www.celso-foelkel.com.br website, and the later alternative remains to this day. The thematic/editorial production was shared between Professor Celso Foelkel and the main editor, Ester Foelkel, PhD. The conversion of the newsletter content to digital publications in the web was the responsibility of the talented webmaster Alessandra Foelkel. The fifty-eight editions of PinusLetter initially took place monthly, between January 2008 and February 2010, being after that, on varying frequencies until July 2020, the last published issue.
All fifty-eight editions were launched under the aegis of Professor Celso’s owned company Celsius Degree – Businesses in Knowledge Management, always counting with the close and welcome support received from ABTCP – Brazilian Technical Association of Pulp and Paper.
The editions and all their contents will remain available on Professor Celso Foelkel's website, for access by interested parties, and this availability has always been made public and free of charge, till now.
PinusLetter aimed to share and to develop knowledge about planted coniferous forests and their manufactured products within high concepts of technology, ecoefficiency, economy and sustainability. The main characters of this technical newsletter were the trees of the species of genus Pinus, but PinusLetter also housed contents on several species of conifers and hardwoods, all being selected thanks to their importance to the forest-based sector.
The objectives for creating, producing, and disseminating PinusLetter to the society were the following:
• To inform and to communicate, in an accessible and transparent way to the Brazilian, Iberian, and Latin American societies, topics that could be of interest to them about silviculture and forest products, having the genus Pinus as the focus.
• To respond to the demands for knowledge about the genus Pinus by interested parties: individuals, legal entities, wood-based companies, taking into account any nationality, although PinusLetter was published only in Portuguese.
• To support human resource development in the forest-based sector, especially for young professionals and beginners seeking knowledge in forestry, environmental issues, industrial pine products, and technical and business management. But doing this always with the focus on the scientific basis and on the concepts of ecoefficiency and conscious consumption and respect for nature's resources.
• To make available and to share in a free, public, and perennial format, as much as possible, important knowledge to be preserved to better inform those who may be interested in the published issues.
Considering the fulfilment of the initial objectives, PinusLetter has been converted into an especially useful technical publication on Pinus and other forest species. It is, till now, freely available and without any cost through this present address: https://www.celso-foelkel.com.br/pinusletter_eng.html. All the already released PinusLetter editions will always be available for downloading at this web address. Just click on the editions cited below to open each one of them, and if you like it, you have the chance to save to your computer. If you are interested in Pinus trees, forests and products derived from them, we promise not to disappoint you.
Please, also access the PinusLetter Retrospective/Archives where all the texts generated, from the first to the last edition, can be easily found. However, the suggested texts for navigation are all in Portuguese, and you may need the get support from a Website Translator, such as Google or any other.
We hope that this product, oriented towards knowledge dissemination, will be of your liking, and may deserve your prestige with your access to the texts we have produced.
An important issue, that I’m personally committed with myself to report to all readers, is that PinusLetter had a hard-life time during its not-so-long existence, but thanks to the help, generosity and financial support from friends, companies and associations, the results are here to be visited and shared, I hope for years ahead. Please, know all of our Sponsors and Supporters at the following page: https://www.celso-foelkel.com.br/pinusletter_apoio.html (in Portuguese).
Thanks to all readers for constant support to our cause and dedication. We expect to help converting Brazilian forestry and forest-based industry as world examples, as a legacy of quality and sustainability for future generations. We will achieve this with determination and with the support of scientific/technological knowledge, the same knowledge that we intend to help disseminate through PinusLetter.
Thanks for all and let us go to work.Celso Foelkel
Ester Foelkel
ATTENTION: To access any edition, just click on the text with the number or on the corresponding month
All editions are just available in PORTUGUESE
PinusLetter – Available editions:
Edition 01 - January 2008Edition 03 - March 2008
Edition 04 - April 2008Special Edition - PinusLetter Archives 2008: January 2009
Edition 23 - PinusLetter Archives 2008/2009: January 2010
Edition 30 - PinusLetter Archives 2008/2010: January 2011
Edition 38 - June 2012 - PinusLetter Archives 2008/2011
Edition 50 - April 2017 - PinusLetter Archives 2008/2016
Edition 55 - April 2020
Edition 56 - May 2020
Edition 57 - July 2020
