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- Brazil moves to protect Amazon tribe (Nov 30)
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Brazil_Isolated_Tribe.html>
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
RIO DE JANEIRO — Federal police are evicting settlers and loggers from
an Amazon area that experts believe is home to one of the world's most
isolated Indian tribes... (Related story: Brazil nabs those threatening Indian tribe)
- Zoo owners unveil £35m jungle vision (Nov 30)
<http://news.scotsman.com/glasgow.cfm?id=2328252005>
Scotsman - United Kingdom
THE owners of Edinburgh Zoo are set to build a £35 million visitor
attraction on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow. The project
would create a covered, rainforest environment...
- Rainforests worth $1.1 trillion for carbon alone in "Coalition" (Nov 30)
<http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1129-rainforests.html>
Mongabay.com - USA
If a coalition of developing countries has its way, there could soon be new forests sprouting up in tropical regions.
- Climate change: It's now or never (Nov 27)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article329857.ece>
Independent - London
I'm scared. For 15 years I've watched international progress on climate
change get slower and slower, even while the pace of global warming
seems to get ever more rapid.
- Forests Paying the Price for Biofuels (Nov 27)
<http://www.ncpa.org/newdpd/dpdarticle.php?article_id=2575>
National Center for Policy Analysis - Dallas,TX,USA
The drive for "green energy" in the developed world is having the
perverse effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical rainforests.
From the orangutan reserves of Borneo to the Brazilian Amazon, virgin
forest is being razed to grow palm oil and soybeans...
- Developing countries: pay us to save rainforests (Nov 27)
<http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1127-rainforests.html>
Mongabay.com - USA
At this week's United Nations summit on climate change in Montreal a
coalition of tropical developing countries plans to propose that
wealthy countries pay them to preserve their rainforests.
- Saving the planet and making some spectacular furniture, one tree at a time (Nov 26)
<http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200511260137.html>
Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo, Japan
Despite having been in business for 30 years, 60-year-old Tadashi
Inamoto is unlikely to make it onto any lists of the world's richest
entrepreneurs.
- Tropical flora and fauna on gallery walls (Nov 25)
<http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=254760&Category=20>
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA
The inevitability of winter chill and gloom gives an added appeal to the show opening Saturday...
- Volcano erupts in southwestern Colombia (Nov 24)
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051124-17505300-bc-colombia-volcano.xml>
Science Daily - USA
BOGOTA — A volcano erupted in southwestern Colombia Thursday, dumping tons of ash on the nearby city of Pasto...
- Can "tipping points" accelerate global warming? (Nov 24)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23377792.htm>
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
OSLO — Rising temperatures trigger a runaway melt of Greenland's ice
sheet, raising sea levels and drowning Pacific islands and cities from
New York to Tokyo.
- Students teach relatives about culture appreciation (Nov 24)
<http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051124/NEWS04/511240320/1152>
The Courier-Journal - Lafayette,IN,USA
Everyone received a packet of M&M's candy as they walked into the Murdock Elementary School gymnasium Wednesday morning.
- Green? No, we're colour-blind (Nov 24)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23729-1887727,00.html>
Times Online - UK
A 65-year-old Brazilian man set fire to himself last week in a
desperate attempt to “wake people up” — his words before he died — to
the destruction of Brazilian wetlands and the Amazon rainforest.
- Amazon rainforest under serious threat (Nov 23)
<http://www.sabcnews.com/world/south_america/0,2172,116767,00.html>
SABC News - Auckland Park, South Africa
Brazil's rainforest is under serious threat, with almost 20 000 square kilometres of shrub disappearing every year...
- Intellectual property rights -- the modern day enclosure of the commons (Nov 23)
<http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/1722361.php>
SF.Indymedia.org - San Francisco,CA,USA
Capitalism is a greedy system. It seeks profit everywhere and turns everything into private property.
- First Investment Bank Joins Growing Ranks of Global Financial
Institutions Addressing Urgent Environmental and Social Issues (Nov 22)
<http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1122-01.htm>
Common Dreams - Portland, ME
SAN FRANCISCO — Rainforest Action Network today commended Goldman Sachs
(NYSE: GS) for being the first global investment bank to adopt a
comprehensive environmental policy.
- Forests paying the price for biofuels (Nov 22)
<http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825265.400>
New Scientist - UK
THE drive for "green energy" in the developed world is having the
perverse effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical
rainforests.
- Now let us hallucinate (Nov 20)
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/20/nsanto20.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/20/ixhome.html>
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Colum Stapleton's initiation into an Amazonian religion and its exotic
drugs rituals came in the most unlikely of surroundings - a community
hall in rural Northern Ireland.
- 365 Ways to Save the Earth (Nov 19)
<http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/storyid.aspx?StoryId=4904>
The Globalist - Washington,DC,USA
The environment has always been a heated subject in global discussions...
- Deadly battle with Amazon's mafia (Nov 17)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4429612.stm>
BBC News - UK
Illegal logging in the Amazon is a huge business. The high stakes bring considerable danger...
- World deforestation rates and forest cover statistics, 2000-2005 (Nov 16)
<http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1115-forests.html>
Mongabay.com - USA
Nigeria has the world's highest deforestation rate, Brazil loses the
largest area of forest annually, and Congo consumes more bushmeat than
any other tropical country.
- Seven Brazilian Cities Pledge Not to Buy Illegally Logged Wood (Nov 16)
<http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2005/2005-11-16-01.asp>
Environment News Service - USA
SAO PAULO — The seven municipal administrations that constitute the
Greater ABC region of metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil's largest city,
have signed a letter of commitment not to purchase illegally logged
wood products.
- Optigenex's Prometheon Labs Rolls Out New Product Avatar 8(tm) With AC-11(r) in New York Metro Area (Nov 16)
<http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=89866>
PrimeZone - Los Angeles
NEW
YORK — Prometheon Labs LLC, a joint venture company between Optigenex
Inc. (OTCBB:OPGX) and Prometheon Holding, LLC, announced the
availability of its anti-inflammatory product Avatar 8(tm) with
AC-11(r) in seven stores in New York...
- Proud as a peacock (Nov 16)
<http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051116/SPORTS05/511160310>
Stockton Record - Stockton, CA
Mike Cato lay on his bed in a clean but spartan thatched hut, arms and
legs held away from his body to capture any hint of a breeze.
- Top Brazilian journalist held hostage by punitive lawsuits (Nov 15)
<http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/Brazil15nov05na.html>
CPJ Press Freedom Online - New York
Belém,
Brazil — A leading Brazilian journalist being honored by the Committee
to Protect Journalists with a prestigious International Press Freedom
Award cannot attend the presentation...
- Brazliian environmentalist dies after self-immolation protest (Nov 14)
<http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1114-globo.html>
Mongabay.com - USA
A Brazilian environmentalist has died after self-immolation in a
protest against the construction of alcohol factories in the Pantanal
marsh region.
- World forest losses slowing but still alarming - UN (Nov 14)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14752897.htm>
Reuters AlertNet - London
ROME — Some 13 million hectares of forests are destroyed around the
world each year, an area the size of Greece, although the net loss of
trees has finally slowed
- 90% of Amazon lumber illegally timbered (Nov 14)
<http://www.mercopress.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=6755>
MercoPress - Montevideo,Uruguay
Greenpeace claims 90% of the Amazon lumber was illegally timbered and
at least one third was consumed by the Brazilian government.
- Nun slaying trial delayed in Brazil (Nov 10)
<http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/11/10/nun.trial.ap/>
CNN International - USA
RIO DE JANEIRO — The men accused of killing a US nun in the Amazon
rainforest will not face trial before December or next year at the
earliest...
- Epstein Honored For Work In Ecuador (Nov 10)
<http://www.shorepublishing.com/archive/re.aspx?re=c74a52a1-b18c-44fe-8a8a-b36760318469>
Shore Publishing - Madison, CT, USA
Two weeks ago Dr. Serle Epstein stepped to a podium amidst applause
from fellow members of the Connecticut Chapter of the American College
of Physicians. Tomorrow he will step off a plane in the Amazonian
region of Ecuador...
- SunOpta to distribute antioxidant-rich Brazilian berry (Nov 9)
<http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=63799-sunopta-sambazon-acai>
NutraIngredients-usa.com - Montpellier,France
Natural foods group SunOpta said today that it will distribute organic acai pulp produced by California-based Sambazon Acai...
- Rainforest Conservation Worth The Cost, University Of Alberta Shows (Nov 8)
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051108081926.htm>
Science Daily - USA
The economic benefits of protecting a rainforest reserve outweigh the
costs of preserving it, says University of Alberta research...
- Why environmentalists should embrace economics: Part one (Nov 7)
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/11/7/92651/9597>
Grist Magazine
Economics is largely the study of incentives, resource distribution,
and how institutional arrangements affect behaviors and
outcomes...
- Logging can have low impact on Amazon rainforest says FAO (Nov 5)
<http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1105-fao.html>
Mongabay.com - USA
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has issued
a response to a study that found selective logging in the Amazon is
highly destructive. (Related story: Selective logging, if done properly, not destructive: Proper logging techniques should be applied in the Amazon)
- Brazil's Anti-Slavery Chief Steps Up Raids to Free Workers (Nov 4)
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aZfAqGDt9qgI&refer=latin_america>
Bloomberg - USA
Marcelo Campos, chief of Brazil's anti-slavery task force, is stepping
up armed raids on ranches, farms and work camps he says force people to
work against their will.
- Forest Activists Protest Against Kimberly-Clark on Civic Center Plaza (Nov 4)
<http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/1721593.php>
SF.Indymedia.org - San Francisco
San Francisco — People walking by Civic Center Plaza today were greeted
by 30 toilets with (artificial) trees down them and a banner reading
“Kimberly-Clark: Flushing Ancient Forests Down the Toilet”...
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Using the Free Market to Benefit the Poor: Award-Winning Strategies (Nov 3)
<http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/121586/1/>
OneWorld US - Washington,DC,USA
Announcing the Four Winners of the "Market-Based Strategies that Benefit Low-Income Communities" Competition
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All cars will run on 'biofuel' mix by 2010 (Nov 1)
<http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22749-1853984,00.html>
Times Online - UK
Oil companies are to be forced to add fuel made from crops such as oil
seed rape and sugar cane to all petrol and diesel sold in Britain.
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