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Reviving Rainforests: Your Help is Needed

S. Jacob Scherr | Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact

Read More: Rainforest, Nrdc, Costa Rica, Save the Rainforest, Habitat, Endangered Species, Osa, Reforestation, Impact News
S. Jacob Scherr

Last year, NRDC launched its Revive a Rainforest campaign to restore forests in Costa Rica. With the help and generosity of our many online supporters, the first stage of our Revive a Rainforest campaign was a true success.

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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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The Movie Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecuador, Oil Industry, Human Rights, Chevron, Joe Berlinger, Rainforest, Crude, Environment, Texaco, Amazon, Pablo Fajardo, Green News
Tracy L. Barnett

Many have heard of Chevron-Texaco's contamination of the Amazonian rainforests. Joe Berlinger's film, Crude, brings the battle to bring them to justice to life in a way words cannot.

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Why the Rainforests Could Cost us the Earth

Tony Juniper | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Prince's Rainforests Project, Climate Change, Video, Rainforest, Global Warming, Green News
Tony Juniper

If we are to have any chance of keeping the global average temperature increase below two degrees, then it is essential that the world find a way to stop the continuing clearance of the tropical rainforests.

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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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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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Akuntsu Tribe: Just 5 Members Remain

The Independent | Guy Adams | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Language, Akuntsu, Akuntsu Tribe, Extinction, Ururu, Rainforest, Tribal Rights, South America, Brazil, Indigenous People, Amazon, Civilization, Funai, World News

They are the last survivors: all that's left of a once-vibrant civilisation which created its own religion and language, and gave special names to eve...

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How Green is Your Palm Oil?

Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Forest Destruction, Rainforest, Climate Change, Fertilizers, Organic-Certification, Palm Oil, Deforestation, Processed Foods, Organic Palm Oil, Natural Home, Natural Home Magazine, Sustainability, Green News
Robyn Griggs Lawrence

Used in everything from cookies to lipstick, palm oil is now common ingredient in many everyday items. Unfortunately, its popularity has led to extensive destruction of tropical rainforests.

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UN's Forest Protection Scheme At Risk For Crime And Fraud

The Guardian | John Vidal | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Prince Charles, Carbon Markets, Carbon Emissions, Rainforest, Carbon Trading, Un Climate Summit, Redd, Conservation, Sustainability, Un, Forest Protection, Prince's Rainforest Project, UN Climate Change, Greece, Tom Cruise, Foreign Policy, Green News

Experts on all sides of the debate, from international police to politicians to conservationists, have warned this week that the scheme, called Reduci...

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Hey, World Leader! See You in Copenhagen...

Gabriel London | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Copenhagen, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, Rainforest, United Nations, Politics News
Gabriel London

The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will be the kind of event, not unlike those awe-inspiring, world-uniting Olympic Games, that only comes around rarely.

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Grizzly Bear Extinction

Giles Slade | Posted 11.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Salmon, Rainforest, Grizzly Bear, Winter Olympics, Vanciouver, Kwakiutl Tales, Franz Boaz, Robert McKee, Macleod's, Green News
Giles Slade

After four years of terrible salmon runs, Grizzlies' numbers appear to be declining. People are beginning to wonder if the bears are joining the salmon in an ongoing species extinction.

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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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A Goal for Copenhagen: Keep the Focus on Enforcement

Peter Lehner | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen, Fundecor, Governance, Nicaragua, Rainforest, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Costa Rica, Green News
Peter Lehner

There's no silver bullet that can resolve the carbon emissions problem in Copenhagen, but there are steps that can be taken to help developing nations strengthen their institutions and, with that, enforcement.

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Corruption and Money Vs. The Environment

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Peru, United Nations-Global Compact, Land Rights, Garcia, Rainforest, Environment, Ghana, Oil, Reporters Uncensored, Indigenous, Foreign-Mining, President, Rutv, World News
Reporters Uncensored

Our main topic this week will be corruption, within governments and multinational corporations. 

Corrupt practices are impacting the environment and devastating indigenous communities.

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What to Do With a Cantankerous Caiman and Other Exotics That No Longer "Fit" In

Mary Ann West | Posted 08.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Tarp, Exotic Animal Trade, Exotic Animals, Sugar Gliders, Rainforest, Parrot, Charla Nash and Travis the Chimp, Conservation, Black Market, Ct, Everglades, Toddler Strangled, Alligators, Boa Constrictor, Python, Anaconda, Connecticut, Beardsley-Zoo, Florida, Albino-Burmese-Python, Stamford, Chimpanzee, Caiman, Paca, Dep, Green News
Mary Ann West

Connecticut's Exotic Animal Amnesty Day received a total of 135 exotic and potentially dangerous pets within the course of only a few hours.

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Say It Ain't S'Obama

Hart Bochner | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Tongass Forest, Tongass Logging, Charles Hurwitz, Alaska, Rainforest, Alaska Logging, Green News
Hart Bochner

The Obama Administration's decision today to open Alaska's Tongass National Park for logging is, in my opinion, the first major blunder of their tenure.

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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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Latin America's Green Parties Take Matters Into Their Own Hands

Posted 07.20.2009 | Green

Read More: South America, Brazilian Green Party, Green Parties, Latin America, Rainforest, Foreign Affairs, Latin American Green Parties, Environment, Environmentalism, Argentine Green Initiative Party, Brazil, Green Party, Amazon, Advocacy, Green News

By Marcela Valente | Inter Press Service BUENOS AIRES, Jun 19 (IPS) - Fed up of waiting for existing parties to take up the cause of sustainable de...

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Mount Mabu: Undiscovered African Rainforest 'Discovered On Google Earth' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Google Earth, Africa, Rainforest, Mozambique, Mount Mabu, Google Earth Mountain, Green News

Scientists are hailing the discovery of a patch of rainforest in northern Mozambique as one of the most significant finds in years. ...

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The Prince's Rainforest Project on this World Environment Day

Stefan Roberts | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Prince Charles, Prince's Rainforest Project, Deforestation, Rainforest, World Environment Day, Green News
Stefan Roberts

This World Environment Day I have been drawn to the Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project -- a new awareness campaign set up by Prince Charles with support from a number of famous faces.

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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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One Way To Preserve The Last Great Places? Endow Research Stations

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Nature, Ecology, Rainforest, Biodiversity, Conservation, Science, Evolution, Wilderness, Animals, Savanna, Environmental Protection, Africa, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

$3 million to endow a research station in perpetuity, to secure the continued flow of knowledge and to rest easy that passionate people will be around to advocate for many voiceless species? That's the bargain of the century.

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