rainforests
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How two 15-year-old Girl Scouts (and Grist readers) changed Kellogg’s
It’ll take some willpower, but don’t have “samoa” until they stop harming the planet.Photo: Laura TaylorWhen Kellogg’s announced this week that it is moving to limit the deforestation caused by the palm oil it uses to make Frosted Flakes, Keebler cookies, Rice Krispies, and Girl Scout cookies, it represented an enormous achievement for two 15-year-old […]
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Indonesia’s billion-dollar climate experiment
Can rich nations pay Indonesia, a corruption-riddled government, to protect its rainforests?
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Coal drives 2009 global carbon emissions higher than expected
Increased coal use in the developing world, particularly China and India, boosted global greenhouse gas emissions to the 2nd highest level on record.
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Eating more fish will save the rainforests, suggests scientist Ray Hilborn
What would happen if we never ate another fish? Fisheries researcher Ray Hilborn thinks that shift could only lead to more rainforests succumbing to the plow to fill the world's growling bellies, and that there really are plenty of fish in the sea to do that instead.
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Want Dinner with Leonardo DiCaprio and George Soros?
In New York last week for the Clinton Global Initiative and United Nations Week, I attended a small dinner party late one night that featured film star Leonardo DiCaprio, billionaire philanthropist/investor George Soros, the President of the central African nation of Gabon and the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (PNG), among others. What brought […]
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Marriage requirement #1: Regrow the rainforest
Some couples get happily engaged in environmental issues by ditching wasteful wedding favors, recycling 400,000 cans to pay for their nuptials, or growing all the food for their reception. But that's all optional. Indonesia is requiring that newlyweds go out on a limb.
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The climate clock ticks faster, a solar campus, butter as biofuel, and 7 more green tales
Ten stories you might have missed from the greenosphere.
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EPA Analysis: Rainforests Key to Climate Legislation Affordability, Integrity
This post was co-authored by Andrew Stevenson of Resources for the Future and Climate Advisers. The EPA analysis of the American Power Act shines a light on a key fact about climate policy: strong rainforest protections, especially in the short run, are essential to keeping costs low and emissions goals strong. The analysis finds that […]
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Children’s books about saving rainforests actually destroy them
You’re killing me, kid.marko2marko via Flickr Creative Commons OK, parents. We know it’s tough raising kids, but as you read Junior a touching tale about sloths in the Amazon, you may be doing more razing than you think. The Rainforest Action Network (RAN), an environmental activist group, perused the pages of children’s books and found […]