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An Open Letter to Chevron's New CEO

Michael Brune | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Rainforest Action Network, 350.Org, Rainforest, Big Oil, Climate Change, Ecuador, Oil, Clean Energy, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron, Chevron Ecuador, Oil Companies, Green News
Michael Brune

These two issues -- climate change and the environmental and human rights impacts of Chevron's operations -- are likely to define your tenure as Chief Executive Officer. How will you respond?

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Do We Want To Be The Generation That Destroyed Ourselves?

Trudie Styler | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Sting, Copenhagen 2009, Rainforest, Ecuador, Trudie Styler, Amazon Rainforest, Rainforests, Rainforest Foundation, Copenhagen, Green News
Trudie Styler

As we go forward to Copenhagen, the signs are not good. In the face of the greatest crisis our world has faced for generations, too many powerful people are behaving with shocking irresponsibility.

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Displacement Of Local Peoples As Coporations Buy Carbon Offsets

Mother Jones | James Ridgeway | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevron, American Electric Power, General Motors, Carbon Offsets, Corporations, Sustainability, Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous People., Amazon, Climate Change, Green News

THERE IS ANOTHER vexing question inherent in preserving forests: What happens to the people who use the land? Efforts to protect biodiversity in the d...

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Remote Amazonian Villagers Obsessed With TV, Soaps And Soccer

GlobalPost | Seth Kugel | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Television, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Villagers, Rainforest, Brazilian Television, Brazil, Amazon, World News

By Seth Kugel PRIMAVERA, Amazonas state, Brazil -- This riverfront fishing and manioc-farming community, four hours by motor-powered canoe from the...

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Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Ecuador, Texaco, Cancer, Toxic Waste, Chevron, Rainforest, Oil Companies, Amazon Rainforest, Home News
Kerry Kennedy

I had heard about what has been called "Chevron's Chernobyl in the Amazon" for years. But nothing could prepare me for the horror I witnessed this week in Ecuador.

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Chevron Corporate Espionage Campaign Backfires; Makes The Insider Look Like Peter Pan (UPDATED)

Howard Glaser | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevron, Charles James, Big Oil, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon Rainforest, Pollution, Chevron Human Rights, Green News
Howard Glaser

When it comes to corporate conspiracy tales, The Insider's recounting of Big Tobacco's skullduggery in covering up the addictive qualities of nicotine set a high bar.

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Amazon Tribe Teams Up With Google To Save Rainforest Home

sfgate.com | James Temple | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Google, Amazon Tribes, Amazon Rainforest, Tribes, Rainforest, Green Technology, Amazon, Google Earth, Green News

The chief of an endangered Amazon tribe will unveil today the product of an unusual partnership with Google Inc. that pairs high tech with indigenous ...

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Anthony Bourdain: Coolness Factor Wearing Thin

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Anthony Bourdain, Larry King, Amazon Rainforest, Vegetarianism, Cnn, Green News
Nikolas Kozloff

Here's the problem which Anthony Bourdain and other blissful carnivores choose to ignore: the world-wide cattle industry is linked to destructive deforestation and their climate destiny.

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Local Leaders on a Global Stage

Kevin George | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Jane-Goodall, Governor Ted Kulongoski, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Environment, Global Climate Summit, Climate Change, Oceans, Amazon Rainforest, Deforestation, Climate Bill, Green News
Kevin George

These are just of few of the characters on the global stage whom I met - and who shared their stories of their paths on the road to Copenhagen.

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Quiet Voices from CGI: Those that Fight the Epic Battle in the Ecuador Rain Forest

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Chernobyl, Clinton Global Initiative, Joe Berlinger, Cgi, Rainforest, Ecuador, Chevron, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon, World News
Michelle Kraus

As they marshal the forces of good at the Clinton Global Initiative to help alleviate the atrocities leveled against the people and lands of Ecuador, let the games begin.

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Trudie Styler Invites Chevron Workers to the Movies

Michael Brune | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Amazon-Watch, Rainforest Action Network, Chevron, Crude, Rainforest, Ecuador, Celebrity Activism, Trudie Styler, Oil, Climate Change, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon, Green News
Michael Brune

Just because your CEO is entangled in one environmental and human rights controversy after another doesn't mean you can't care about the planet, does it?

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WATCH: Trailer For Crude, Film About The Chevron Vs. Ecuador Legal Battle

Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: Amazon Rainforest, Chevron, Crude, Ecuador, Joe Berlinger, Impact News

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger's new documentary, Crude, explores the fierce $27 billion legal battle raging between oil giant Chevron and the indigenous peo...

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Sex, Lies, and Videotape: Chevron's Spy Games Unraveling

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Corruption, Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility, Ecuador, Environment, Corporate Social Responsibility, Chevron, Indigenous Rights, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon, Green News
Paul Paz y Miño

Given the overwhelming scientific evidence against the company, a potential $27 billion judgment possibly a month out, news of the "scandal" was seen by many as a fourth-quarter Hail Mary, if not something more sinister.

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I Fought the Law and the Law Won

Jeffrey B. Swartz | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Timberland, Amazon Rainforest, Greenpeace Brazil, Timberland Greenpeace, Greenpeace, Deforestation, Brazil, Green News
Jeffrey B. Swartz

Deforestation in the Amazon is not okay. But -- how is it our problem? We're a U.S.-based bootmaking business -- sympathetic to the cause, but certainly not responsible for it. Right?

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Nike Fights Deforestation, Won't Use Leather From Amazon-Bred Cattle

AP | STAN LEHMAN | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Amazon Deforestation, Amazon Leather, Nike, Brazil, Environment, Nike Leather, Amazon Rainforest, Greenpeace, Amazon, Green News

SAO PAULO (AP) - Sportswear giant Nike Inc. announced Wednesday that it will stop using leather from cattle raised in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, sayi...

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Supermarket Suppliers Destroying Amazon Rainforest

The Guardian | David Adam, Environment Correspondent | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Uk, Meat Companies, UK Supermarkets, Rainforest, Brazil, Beef, Green, Supermarkets, Cattle, Amazon Rainforest, Deforestation, Amazon, Green News

Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive dest...

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The Uprising in the Amazon Is More Urgent Than Iran's: It Will Determine the Future of the Planet

Johann Hari | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Amazon Oil Companies, Amazon Rainforest, Oil Companies, Oli Companies Amazon, Ecuador, Amazon, World News
Johann Hari

Will we allow a small number of rich people to make a short-term profit from seizing and burning resources, at the expense of our collective ability to survive?

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World Bank Withholds (Some) Funding for Deforestation

Rachel Cernansky | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Amazon Rainforest, Deforestation, Brazil, Meat, Beef, World Bank, Eating Matters, Environment, Green News
Rachel Cernansky

According to a Greenpeace report, Brazil's cattle sector "is the largest driver of deforestation in the world, responsible for one in every eight hectares destroyed globally."

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Watch Earth Disappear In Time-Lapse Videos

Wired, NASA | Posted 07.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Amazon Rainforest, Aral Sea, Deforestation, Dubai-United Arab Emirates, Green News

This is a big week for viewing the effects of humanity on Earth from above -- in addition to a documentary film coming out this Friday, Wired has used...

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The Amazon Rainforest is More Important than Electric Cars

Levi Novey | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Rainforests, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Deforestation, Rainforest, Deforestation, Amazon, Ecuador, Peru, Electric Cars, Neil Young, Guyana, Brazil, Green News
Levi Novey

Since the Amazon Rainforest is so important, we must ask ourselves: "Why have we (or at least the media) become so bored of discussing the Amazon and deforestation?"

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Making Something Out of Nothing

Matthew Owen | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green

Read More: New York Times, Climate Change, Rainforest, Biodiversity, Secondary Rainforest, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Carbon Emissions, Conservation, Amazon Rainforest, Global Warming, Jungles, Green News
Matthew Owen

We need to take every meaningful step possible to offset climate change and there is no better way to do so than protecting endangered rainforests.

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Merriam-Webster's Word of 20...12: "Avoided Deforestation"

Matthew Owen | Posted 01.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Merriam-Webster, Cool Earth, Avoided Deforestation, Rainforest, Deforestation, Amazon Rainforest, Green Living, Green News
Matthew Owen

Reaching for my crystal ball, let me be the first to tell you -- today -- what Merriam-Webster's word of 2012 will be: "Avoided Deforestation."

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