Showing posts with label deforestation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deforestation. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Greenpeace wants you to think how many trees it takes to make chopsticks next time you order Chinese food!

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Greenpeace launched last year a campaign in China to call attention to the urgent need for forest conservation in China. One of the main iss...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

Greenpeace is using Ken and Barbie to protest against Mattel's relationship with APP

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What do you think of Barbie? Well, no matter what you have in mind, Greenpeace has news for you : "Barbie has a nasty deforestation hab...
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Monday, June 6, 2011

Alternative to slash and burn focus of new documentary, Up in Smoke

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I just got an update that this week, on Thursday June 9, The Economist Film Project will showcase a new documentary called Up in Smoke , ...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

New report connects children's books to the destruction of forests in Indonesia

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Forest destruction in Indonesian Borneo. Photo:David Gilbert/RAN Rainforest Network Action (RAN) published yesterday a new report with an ...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

New video from RIPPLE Africa: Deforestation, bush burning and Forest Conservation in Malawi

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Our planting partner RIPPLE Africa is working in Malawi, Africa and is doing an amazing job there. They've just published a new video, ...
Friday, February 26, 2010

Avoided Deforestation Partners wants to make living trees more profitable than dead ones

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"One ton of carbon dioxide is presently trading on European markets at about £10. A hectare of rainforest stores about 500 tons and the...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Tree planting in Malawi - a new video of our planting partner, RIPPLE Africa

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Our friends at RIPPLE Africa are completing these days another planting season of trees in Malawi, Africa. They have published a very power...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Everything you always wanted to know about forestry carbon credits - A special interview with Paulo Lopes of Carbon Clear

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Today the U.N. Climate Change Summit (COP15) gets underway and no matter how optimistic you are about these talks, I think it's an excit...
Monday, October 26, 2009

The potential and risks of Forest-based carbon offsets: part 3 - REDD: how it can actually work?

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On the first part on our series on forest-based carbon credits we talked of the potential of this concept as we saw on the example of Canop...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

The potential and risks of Forest-based carbon offsets: part 2 - Noel Kempff and the Greenpeace report

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On the first part of our series about forest-based carbon credits we talked about the potential of this model and presented the example of ...
Monday, October 19, 2009

The potential and risks of Forest-based carbon offsets: part 1 - the Carbon Canopy

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This week we're issuing a 3-part series that will cover one of the most interesting issues in the green market. It's getting more an...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Paying to keep the trees in the Amazon alive - it ain't that simple as it might look like

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We talked here many times about the concept of paying landowners to keep their trees standing and not cut them down. This idea is gaining mo...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

What's your forest footprint?

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Will companies be accountable to their forest footprint and will need to disclose it in the near future? Well, I am not sure about it, but...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Will forests become part of the problem instead of part of the solution?

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It might be according to a new report presented yesterday at the UN. The report is warning that forests that today soak up a quarter of carb...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Mixed news about the Amazon Rainforest

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We have both good and bad news about the Amazon Rainforest this week. Let's start with the good news: The World Bank approved last Thurs...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Celebrating RIPPLE Africa's planting season - last photo

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Today we have the last beautiful photo from Malawi, Africa, where our planting partner RIPPLE Africa has finished another successful plant...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Celebrating RIPPLE Africa's planting season

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Today we have another beautiful photo from Malawi, Africa, where our planting partner RIPPLE Africa has finished another successful planti...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Daily photo from the planting season in Malawi, Africa

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We continue to present you with photos from Malawi, Africa, where our planting partner RIPPLE Africa has finished another successful planti...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

The daily photo from Malawi, Africa

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We hope you're enjoying our daily presentations of photos from Malawi, Africa, where our planting partner RIPPLE Africa has finished an...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Bad news from Indonesia

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We read on MONGABAY.COM that Indonesia has reversed a ban on paper and pulp companies from harvesting wood from natural forests. Accordi...