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Greenpeace reports progress on Amazon deforestation practices
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
In June, Greenpeace released “Slaughtering the Amazon,” a three-year investigation into deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Greenpeace found that people were taking over protected lands in order to expand their cattle ranches. This was not only illegal, but large quantities of greenhouse gases were being released into the atmosphere as a result of the rapidly depleting forests.
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Deforestation accounts for around one fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than all the world’s trains, planes and cars combined, and Greenpeace estimates that the cattle industry is responsible for 80 percent of all deforestation.
Now, just four months after the release of “Slaughtering the Amazon,” positive steps are being taken by some of the big companies implicated.
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Tags: · Adidas, Bertin, cattle ranches, deforestation, Greenpeace, JBS-Friboi, Marfrig, Minerva, Nike, Slaughtering the Amazon, Timberland
Give your shoes a new life
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
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In just one year, 300 million pairs of shoes are thrown away. These shoes end up in landfills across the US. Not only do these shoes not easily break down, the glue that holds a shoe together is toxic. So instead of adding to the growing trash problem, give your shoes a new life. What’s old to you, could be a playground for someone else thanks to Nike.
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Tags: · Container Recycling Institute, Nike, Nike Grind Rubber, Nike Reuse-A-Shoe program, Recycle & Reuse, recycled athletic surfaces, recycled shoes
Amazon deforestation and your shoes
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
When we put our shoes on, we don’t really think about where they’ve been before they got to us.
Most likely, they were manufactured somewhere overseas, China or Vietnam perhaps, then shipped to the United States. But where did the material used to manufacture them come from? Are your shoes made of leather? If so, there’s a chance they’re contributing to climate change — and the illegal destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
 Greenpeace International says rainforests are being needlessly lost not just to the meat trade but to the leather industry, as cattle ranches expand illegally in Brazilian Amazon region.
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Tags: · Adidas/Reebok, Amazon rainforest, Brazil, cattle trade, Clarks, deforestation, Geox, Greenhouse Gases, leather, Nike, Prada, shoes, Timberland
Nike’s Zoom leaves a smaller carbon sneaker-print
From Green Right Now Reports
Phoenix Sun’s all-star guard and environmental advocate Steve Nash worked with Nike to this week launch the new Zoom MVP Trash Talk that is made from scrap materials left over from the footwear manufacturing process.
The shoe also will be packaged in Nike’s new Considered Design shoebox, made from 100 percent recycled [...]
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Tags: · Nike, Nike Zoom MVP Trash Talk, Steve Nash
Steelers fans wearing green
By Laura Elizabeth May
Green Right Now
 Steelers fans are adding a new team color to their list: green.
Reebok is offering the first eco-friendly Super Bowl championship tee in organic cotton. The shirts are made from organic cotton yarn with hang tags made of recycled materials. The shirts also feature green stitching on the shoulder and inside neck seams to represent the organic material.
The championship shirts are always a best seller and “by incorporating an eco-friendly element to them, the Reebok brand and the NFL are using the global platform of the Super Bowl to raise awareness about environmentally-conscious opportunities,” said John McMahon, Director of Marketing for Reebok Sports licensed Division in a statement.
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Tags: · Nike, organic cotton, Pittsburgh Steelers, Reebok, Super Bowl
Catch the spirit of giving: Recycle, reuse and reduce by donating at the holidays
By Diane Porter
Green Right Now
We’re too familiar with the downsides of the holiday season. Bags of new things come into the house and get hidden in already-full closets and drawers. Boxes of decorations come out of their hiding places, muscling their way into your living space. Wrapping paper and ribbons multiply like guppies, scissors and tape go missing, cookies come out of the oven and the doorbell rings. When it’s all over, we work to find places for the new stuff, stash the decorations again and vow to make next year different.
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Tags: · Brides Against Breast Cancer, Computers for Schools, Dress for Success, Freecycle, Gifts in Kind America, Glass Slipper, Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity, National Cristina Foundation, Nike, Project Linus, Project Night Night, Recycles.org, Ronald McDonald House, Share the Technology, Sierra Club, Soles 4 Souls
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