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Disney donates to save forests
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
While the world scrambles to find clean energy solutions, somewhere, every minute of every day, saws buzz through a forest, cutting down one of nature’s antidotes to carbon pollution.
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Tags: · Amazon, Arkansas, Congo, Conservation Fund, Conservation International, deforestation, habitat restoration, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi River Valley, Nature Conservancy, Northern California, rainforest, restoring forests, sustainable forests, The Walt Disney Company, tropical forests
Cookies, the ‘Dirty 19′ and the palm oil patrol
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
We had a chocolate attack at a store the other day, so we schlepped over to the cookie aisle seeking something sweet and crunchy.
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Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, orangutans, palm oil, products with palm oil, rainforest, Rainforest Action Network, Southeast Asia, stickering products with palm oil
A parade of palm oil products
September 11th, 2009 · No Comments
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Digging into the palm oil debate, an urgent issue to many environmental groups, our reporter Ashley Phillips found herself slipping into a swamp of material.
For years, there has been a volley of claims and counter claims about the environmental and humanitarian consequences related to palm oil production.
The UN Environment Programme has blamed the massive destruction of rainforest in Malaysia and Indonesia for producing such a volume of manmade greenhouse gas emissions that it ranks behind only the US and China. These gases are released as the native rainforest is cleared to install or expand palm plantations, and it is exacerbated by the slash-and-burn clearing that is a double whammy to the atmosphere — removing carbon-holding rainforest while spewing carbon from massive wood fires.
Seemingly the only thing happening faster than the destruction of the rainforest in Southeast Asia is the consumer demand for palm oil which turns up in every 10th product at the grocery by some estimations.
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Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Borneo, consumer goods, deforestation, Indonesia, Malaysia, palm oil, palm oil products, rainforest, The Problem with Palm Oil, the Rainforest Network
Wine company says one tree will go up for every bottle that goes down
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
Once, long ago, a winemaker promised to sell no wine before its time. Now, a different company is promising to sell no wine (at least one label of wine anyway) without helping humans atone for past crimes.
The rhyme may not be as good, but the thought is more altruistic.
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Tags: · Africa, Amazon, Asia, California, global warming, rainforest, tree planting, Trinchero Family Estates, Trinity Oaks, wine
Human nature, moral imperatives and vegan shoes
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Could all of our efforts to become green — our rehabbing of buildings, spurning of plastic bags and buying of new hybrids — turn out to be mere tinkerings in the tool shed as the whole grand project collapses around us?
That seems to be the point up for consideration these days. That this whole Save-the-Earth thing might be bigger than a green fashion trend or an overhaul of the auto industry. It might require more drastic action than turning down our newly installed programmable thermostats.
Recently, the New York Times ran a blog item about a study showing that having babies is one of the non-greenest things you can do, especially if you’re a Westerner and your baby is destined to be a giant among world consumers. This is sort of a “duh”. But the University of Oregon scientists quantified the impact, concluding that an American child would have seven times the impact of a Chinese-born kiddo.
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Tags: · Carbon footprint, Climate Change, consumerism, culture of stuff, Population, rainforest, shoes, stay-cations, University of Oregon, World Watch Institute
Prince Charles launches web campaign about deforestation hazards
By Laura Elizabeth May
Green Right Now
Prince Charles launched a new Internet initiative The Prince’s Rainforest Project Campaign at the National Geographic’s store in London on Tuesday. The Prince also released a webcast drawing attention to deforestation.
The Prince attended a showing of a 90 second public awareness film. Celebrities such as Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, and the Dalai Lama joined Prince Charles and his sons Princes William and Harry to raise awareness of the organization and the loss of tropical rainforests.
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Tags: · Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sink, Climate Change, global warming, National Geographic, Prince Charles, Prince's Rainforest Project Campaign, rainforest, tropics
Tropical lizards can’t stand the heat?
By John DeFore
Green Right Now
The casual observer might imagine that few creatures would be bothered less by climate change than tropical lizards: Scaly and small, they should both shrug the heat off and be able to find shade easily when they feel like it.
 That turns out not to be the case, as University of Washington biology professor Raymond Huey can tell you. Working from data collected three decades ago, he recently published a paper arguing that such creatures may actually be more vulnerable to rising temperatures than the rest of us.
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Tags: · Climate Change, Proceedings of the Royal Society, rainforest, Raymond Huey, tropical lizards
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