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Foreign Aid and Trade: A Balanced Approach to Promote Greater Food Security

Eva M. Clayton | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Farming, Global Food Crisis, Hunger, World Hunger, Agriculture, Palm Oil, Food Security, G8 Summit, G8 Conference, Impact G8, G8, World News

This G8 summit was, yet again, a missed opportunity for international leaders to make a real commitment to long-term food security and support for African and developing world farmers.

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MOM: A Mother's Day Gift for the Whole Family

Pamela Poole | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Indonesia, Palm Oil Production, Orangutans, Malaysia, Endangered Species, Borneo, Palm Oil, Orangutans Endangered, Impact News

To lift your spirits, celebrate Mother's Day, and give your kids the priceless, lasting gift of eco-consciousness and civic responsibility... Why not spend a day at the zoo celebrating motherhood?

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Orangutan Emergency in Indonesia: The Edge of Extinction

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Orangutan, Indonesia, Palm Oil, Cargill, Rainforest, Forests, Extinction, Tripa Rainforest, Orangutan Indonesia, Tripa Peat Swamp Forests, Orangutan Extinction, Sustainable Palm Oil, Green News

The extinction of the world's great apes, taking place in remote rainforests and seemingly out of our control, is much closer than you might imagine -- and the solution is nearer still.

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Bad Ideas Contaminate, While Good Ideas Are Contagious

Pat Mitchell | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Skoll World Forum, Brazil, Sustainable Palm Oil, Palm Oil, Palm Oil Production, Impact News

This is what happens when good people come together, whether in real-time or online, with a strong purpose and with intention to change what needs to be changed to create a more sustainable peaceful, prosperous planet for all.

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Taste Test: The Best Natural Peanut Butter

Kitchen Daily | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Jif-Peanut-Butter, Taste Test, Skippy, Peanut Butter, Palm Oil, Natural Peanut Butter, KitchenDaily News

"Natural" peanut butter is loosely defined as a product that does not contain partially hydrogenated oil, the trans fat-laden ingredient that makes cl...

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Will Orangutans Become Extinct Before the Conservation Community Gets Its Game on?

Jamie Bechtel | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Women, FSC Certified, New Course, Protected Areas, Orangutans, Environment, Conservation, Bushmeat, Borneo, Jamie Bechtel, Natural Resource Management, Deforestation, Palm Oil, Green News

Visiting orangutans in the wilds tops my bucket list and it is clear I am running out of time. Nearly 700 orangutans were just slaughtered by local villagers in Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo.

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Obama Pushes Huge Free Trade Deals to Wednesday Vote

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Tunafish, Panama Free Trade Agreement, World Trade Organization, Colombia Free Trade, Tariffs, Free Trade, Occupy Wall Street, Disaster Capitalism, Korea Free Trade Agreement, Palm Oil, Barack Obama, Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Politics News

These trade agreements achieve a rare trifecta: it's hard to imagine a single initiative that at one time could so infuriate anti-corporate activists, labor unions, and environmentalists at the very moment these disparate movements are finding solidarity and support in the streets.

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New Policy Baking For Girl Scout Cookies

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Christian | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Rainforest Action Network, Girl Scout Cookies, Girl Scouts, Greenpalm, Video, Union of Concerned Scientists, Rhiannon Tomtishen, Girl Scouts USA, Roundtable-on-Sustainable-Palm-Oil, Environment, Girl Scouts Cookie Campaign, Madison Vorva, Palm Oil, Project Orang, Green News

What started as a research project to earn a Girl Scout Bronze Award has become a five-year-long campaign by two Michigan Girl Scouts. Rhiannon To...

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Who's Been In The Girl Scouts Cookie Jar?

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Embezzlement, Fraud, Girl Scout Cookies, District Attorney, Video, Forgery, Orangutans, Diamond Ring, Girl Scouts of America, Palm Oil, Ny Post, Grand Larceny, Nbc, Business News

Former finance director of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, Yaasmin Hooey, has been charged with stealing $310,000 from the nonprofit organ...

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Girl Scouts Pledge To Reduce Palm Oil In Cookies

MSN.com | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Girl Scouts Palm Oil, Girl Scout Cookies, Girl Scout Cookies Palm Oil, Sustainable Palm Oil, Girl Scouts, Palm Oil, Food News

A five-year campaign by two Michigan girls to make Girl Scout cookies more environmentally friendly has prompted the youth organization to curb the us...

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5 Ideas for Biofuels That Will Change the Energy Conversation

Susanna Murley | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Butanol, India, Biomass, Corn, Brazil, Trash, Algae, Ethanol, Emissions, Top 5, Palm Oil, Coal, China, Green News

Some Girl Scouts say palm oil in their cookies are leading to deforestation. Cookies, schmookies, the real question is: should we could we put palm o...

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Indonesian Forest Plan May Be Breakthrough on Climate Change

James Bacchus | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Redd, Sustainable Palm Oil, Indonesia, Tropical Forests, Climate, Palm Oil Production, Global Climate Change, Indonesian Forest Plan, Climate Change, Rainforests, Palm Oil, Forests, Deforestation, Global Warming, Green News

Although little noted thus far in the U.S., Indonesia has just announced the details of a program intended to diminish forest destruction and thereby reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are the main cause of climate change.

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My Grandmother Invented Girl Scout Cookies, And Today She'd Be Ashamed

Josephine Carothers | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Ethel Jennings, Girl Scout Cookies, Girl Scouts, Sustainable Palm Oil, Palm Oil, Palm Oil Production, Food News

Knowing my grandmother, whom we called "Angel," I can say this: Today, Ethel Jennings Newton would be ashamed of the destruction her inventiveness is causing in the lives of those powerless to stop it.

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Girl Scouts Continue Campaign For Palm Oil-Free Cookies

Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Girl Scout Cookies, Girl Scouts Palm Oil, Girl Scout, Girl Scouts, Girl Scout Cookies Palm Oil, Girl Scouts of America, Palm Oil, Food News

It's been a rough couple of months for the much beloved Girl Scout cookie. Girl Scouts and high school sophomores Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva...

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How Two 15-Year-Old Girl Scouts Are Changing a Giant Food Conglomerate

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

When Kellogg's announced that it is moving to limit the deforestation caused by the palm oil it uses to make Girl Scout cookies, it represented an enormous achievement for two 15-year-old girls from Michigan.

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Dancing With Devils

Scott Poynton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Golden Agri Resources, Social Media, Responsible Sourcing Guidelines, Palm Oil, Nestlé, Tft, Green News

We don't need governments or the UN to regulate these exceptional transformations, we just need to dance with the "devils" and help them to move their businesses and supply chains over the sustainability bridge to a better place.

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Of Thin Mints and Orangutans

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Girl Scouts, Tropical Forests, Orangutans, Food, Endangered Species, Rainforests, Animals, Deforestation, Palm Oil, Kathy Cloninger, Wildlife, Green News

When Girl Scouts Madison and Rhiannon found out that their group's famed cookies contained palm oil, the cultivation of which destroys the habitat of endangered wildlife, they sprung into action.

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Green News Report: February 22, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co2, Natural Disasters, Green Jobs, Ray Kurzweil, Epa, Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Drought, Libya, Infrastructure, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Electric Cars, Scott Walker, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Overfishing, Tea Party, US Chamber of Commerce, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Energy, Clean Energy Jobs, Wisconsin, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, New Zealand, Budget, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Palm Oil, Barack Obama, Girl Scout Cookies, New Zealand Earthquake, Koch Brothers, Grand Canyon, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Uranium, Green News, Sustainability, Food, Koch Industries, Toxic Waste, BP Oil Spill, Oceans, Extreme Weather, Refugees, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Deadly ea...

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Green News Report: February 10, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Floods, Co2, House of Representatives, Natural Disasters, Epa, Agriculture, House Energy Committee, Chevron Ecuador, Coal, Climate Scientists, New Jersey, Saudi Arabia, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change Denial, Chevron, Forests, Global Warming, Energy, Clean Energy Jobs, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Biden, Carbon Tax, Food, High Speed Rail, Natural Gas, Food Prices, China, Stephen Johnson, Salmon, Green Jobs, Regulation, Native Americans, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Water Crisis, Dick Cheney, Drought, Electricity, Indonesia, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Electric Cars, Gop, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, Deforestation, Oregon, Chris Christie, Ibm, Exxon Mobil, Subsidies, Palm Oil, Virginia, Energy Efficiency, Bush Administration, BRAD BLOG, Peak Oil, Snow, Green News, Toxic Waste, Extreme Weather, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Bush EPA ...

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Top Five Ways to Protect Rainforests in 2011

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Protection, Indonesia, Indigenous, Rainforest, Oil, Community, Book, Cargill, Coal, Palm Oil, Paper, Amazon, Congo, Green News

Many of us live thousands of miles away from Brazil, Indonesia and the Congo Basin, where the last stands of tropical rainforests still exist. It's ea...

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Biofuel's Bumpy Road: The Trials and Tribulations of Algae, Palm Oil, Bioelectricity And More

treehugger.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Algae, Green Energy, Biofuels, Bioelectricity, Palm Oil, Green News

The biofuel craze passed a while ago and more sober assessments of their promises and problems took over, but that doesn't mean by a long shot that th...

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Worth Watching: Green

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumerism, Patrick Rouxel, Rainforest, Burger King, Green, Orangutans, Sinar Mas, Documentary, Animals, Film, Monkeys, Deforestation, Palm Oil, Movies, Movie Reviews, Documentary Film, Green News

By focusing in on one orangutan named Green, filmmaker Patrick Rouxel concentrates our compassion and concern. Green is ill and injured after her lush rainforest home is flattened.

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Four Year-Old Maddy Cerra Raises Awareness About Endangered Orangutans

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maddy Abela, Orangutans, Australian Orangutan Project, Maddy Cerra, Palm Oil, Deforestation, Slideshow, Endangered Species, Impact News

When Maddy Cerra caught sight of an endangered species photo at school, she insisted that orangutans like the one in the picture needed her help. The...

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Orangutan Genocide Continues in Indonesia

Deborah Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indonesia, Borneo, Cites, Sumatra, Activism, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Palm Oil, Orangutans, Extinction, Conservation, Green News

This highly sophisticated species whose DNA is 97 percent similar to homo sapiens will be the first great ape to become extinct if urgent action is not immediately taken.

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What's in Your Food that is Destroying Rainforests?

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rainforest Action Network, Indonesia, Rainforest, Cargill, Green, General Mills, Palm Oil, Global Warming, Green News

Almost half of all consumer goods sold in grocery stores contain palm oil, a thick, long-lasting oil that is sourced mainly from tropical nations like Indonesia and Malaysia. Its use is widespread and increasing around the world.

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