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If You Want To See The Future Of Global Greens, Visit Brazil
Posted by Business Insider: None Given on April 15th, 2011
Business Insider: Brazil is ground zero for global greens. Home of the largest and richest rainforest system in the world, Brazil is where the fight for biodiversity and the fight against deforestation will be either won or lost.
At the Copenhagen Summit, Brazil played a key role in failed negotiations that killed the Green Dream of a universal treaty to stop global warming.
And as I learned this week, Brazil is the country whose creativity and ingenuity is changing the terms of the global climate and food debates...
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Avon commits to greener palm oil
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 15th, 2011
Mongabay: The beauty products giant Avon will purchase enough GreenPalm certificates to meet 100 percent of its palm oil use.
The move means that Avon can claim all of the palm oil it is purchasing is going to support the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body that sets social and environmental criteria for palm oil production. GreenPalm certificates, which represent physical palm oil certified under the RSPO, allows companies to bypass supply-chain complexities and financially support sustainable...
Drought grows more dire in Southwest, farms hit
Posted by Reuters: Carey Gillam on April 15th, 2011
Reuters: Conditions for crops and livestock are growing more dire by the day in the U.S. Southwest as drought continues to grip the region.
Texas is a tinderbox, pastureland for hungry cattle is drying up, and prospects are deteriorating rapidly for wheat, corn, cotton and other crops.
"Conditions are just deplorable right now. One hundred percent of the state is currently in some form of drought," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples told Reuters.
The threat to cattle and crop production...
Former Cambodian poacher turns gamekeeper
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 15th, 2011
AFP: As a hunter roaming the remote forests of eastern Cambodia, Lean Kha shot animals from dozens of endangered species, including tigers, bears and elephants.
But the repentant former poacher is now putting his tracking skills to good use as a wildlife ranger in Mondulkiri Protected Forest, which Cambodia hopes will become an eco-tourism hotspot.
Over nearly three decades, the 50-year-old shot hundreds of creatures as he tried to eke out a living in poverty-stricken Mondulkiri province, a sparsely...
The finitude of forests
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 15th, 2011
Economist: The finitude of forests A scheme to save the world’s rainforests still seems too good to be true
AS THE heavens open, the canopy offers scant protection from the downpour, so the orang-utans tear leaves off the trees to make pathetic little umbrellas to hold over their heads. It is an endearingly human gesture but, as a means of keeping dry, almost entirely futile. And it is not just the rain that makes these creatures seem so helpless. The relentless destruction of their tropical-forest habitat...