published December 30, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Wakx / Creative Commons If you follow the problems with palm oil and deforestation in Southeast Asia you've no doubt come across Alan Oxley and his shilling for big timber--for which a group of scientists recently chided him, for massive misrepres... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published December 29, 2010 and has No Comments
photos credit Ganny Gozaly and dpavilion architects I do often wonder about container architecture; whether it is done because it is cheap, or whether it is done as an attention grabber. One certainly knows where the Indonesian firm dpavilion architects stand; they call their building Contertainer, and tell the Contemporist it is "an amalgam of two words: container and ...
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published November 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Oil palm fruit, photo: fitri agung / Creative Commons In a big boost for the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certification standard, the Netherlands has committed to only using sustainable palm oil by the end of 2015--and becomes the first nation to do so. Dutch businesses are Europe's largest imp... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published October 28, 2010 and has No Comments
This one's probably a bit insider-info for most TreeHugger readers, and I admit I'm partially to blame for it, but bear with me because it's if you care about rampant greenwashing and deforestation it's important: A group of prominent scientists has issued an open letter challenging the objectivity of World Growth International , challenging the group's and its leader ...
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published September 23, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Neil Palmer/International Center for Tropical Agriculture via flickr Or tuck into your bowl of Cheerios happily knowing that doing so won't be helping General Mills contribute to killing orangutans and other endangered species, nor trampling on indigenous rights. After pressure from and consultation with Rainforest Action Network , the Minneapolis-based food giant has committed to obtaining 100% of ...
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published August 30, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Forest Peoples Programme Take this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying rainforests as it rapidly expands. A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme details the damage.... Read the full story ...
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published August 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Another interesting twist in the ongoing saga of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and how to slow them: As Mongabay reports, a new report by the World Agroforestry Centre shows that because so many of the nation's emissions from deforestation actually occur outside of places officially designated as forests, the UN REDD program may actual reduce emissions in ...
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published August 13, 2010 and has No Comments
Logged forest on left, unlogged forest on right... photo: Wakx via flickr Conventional political wisdom on rainforest degradation is that once you've logged an area once, or even twice, removing the largest most valuable trees, the forest becomes degraded to the point that biodiversity losses make it not worth protecting. In Borneo, often the land is turned over to ...
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published July 8, 2010 and has No Comments
Responding to Greenpeace's recent report (a screengrab of which is above) on the wholesale destruction of Indonesian rainforest by Sinar Mas Group affiliate Asia Pulp & Paper , Walmart issued a press statement Wednesday expressing shock that it would be singled out in the report, as it has been in discussions with the environmental group on ways to improve ...
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published July 6, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Patrick Barry via flickr Greenpeace is again pointing a finger the international companies responsible for Indonesian deforestation, and the international brands aiding and abetting them through purchasing their products. This time it's the Sinar Mas group and their subsidiary Asian Pulp & Paper clearing forest and Walmart, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, KFC, and other well-known consumer names that ...
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