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Forests

Follow us in Brazil!

July 19, 2010

Follow our blogger/editor, Antonio, on a six-day trip to Brazil for a firsthand look at the world´s greatest biodiversity, found in the Amazon rainforest, and to become familiar with local policies to reach national targets on deforestation and climate change. Follow him at http://vimeo.com/energyrefuge and also on EnergyRefuge’s Twitter. Join him as he provides you [...]

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Palm oil is an environmental and PR disaster

March 26, 2010

To bring the week to a close, I’ll leave aside the usual focus on renewable energy to blog about another environmental topic that has been buzzing on the social media landscape over the last week. Technorati Tags: Facebook, Greenpeace, Kit Kat, Nestlé, Palm oil, Sinar Mas, YouTube Related Posts:NGO Raises Concerns Over Palm Oil Supply [...]

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Vanishing forests, vanishing tribes

October 14, 2009

Our last post was about the need to protect the world’s forests as a natural and cost-effective way to capture carbon dioxide, to protect biodiversity and the remaining indigenous people who dwell in them. As if to reinforce the point, Earthfirst published a harrowing piece of news about a Brazilian Indian tribe called Akuntsu, who [...]

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Saving forests to curb climate change

October 12, 2009

It sounds like a no-brainer, but given the world’s insistence on ignoring this simple truth, it’s always worth repeating it: halting deforestation is one of the most effective and cheap ways to reduce the impact climate change. According to FAO, “forests and the wood they produce trap and store carbon dioxide, playing a major role [...]

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