Tag: Amazonia - Page 8
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Carbon Emissions From Amazon Deforestation Increase as Older Forest Cleared
By now I'm sure you know that deforestation is a major source of carbon emissions -- in fact more than all the fuel burned for transportation -- which would be enough to worry about, except that when it comes to emissions
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Timberland Pledges to Not Use Brazilian Deforestation Leather
A week after Nike agreed to not use leather sourced from the Amazon, Timberland has stepped up and made a similar commitment. Both come in response to the Greenpeace report
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Brazil's Amazon Soy Moratorium Extended Into 2010
The Amazon has been granted another one year reprieve from soy farming: The largely successful ban on trading of soy grown in the Amazon biome has been extended until July 2010, Greenpeace
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Amazon Tribe Already Feels the Pinch From Climate Change & Deforestation
For a really great image of how environmental changes are already affecting
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Galapagos Island Travel-Specific Carbon Offsets From CanopyCo
While traveling in South America this spring with Green Living Project, I browsed through a local paper while I was waiting for another flight and came across an interesting carbon offset option, geared specifically for
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Nike Says No To Deforestation Leather - Not That They Ever Used It...
About a month ago, Greenpeace released a report showing how major global shoe brands may be contributing to Amazon deforestation by buying leather from cattle raised in the newly cleared land. The report caused a stir among
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Will Wal-Mart's Amazon Beef Ban Accelerate Deforestation?
Hopefully you've gotten the message that expansion of beef cattle pastures are responsible for the majority of new deforestation in the Amazon. And hopefully have heard the good news that Brazil's largest supermarket
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Maquipucuna Lodge and Reserve: This Ecuadorian Amazon Spot is Alive and Growing
Traveling with Green Living Project, I visited the Maquipucuna Lodge and Reserve, another woman-owned eco-resort, this time in the Ecuadorian Amazon. You're probably
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Your Brazilian Eco-Certified Wood May Be Coming From Protected Areas
If you're looking to buy products using sustainably harvested timber from Brazil and it comes from the state of Pará, you may want to reconsider. Mongabay is reporting that a Brazilian federal prosecutor has launched an investigation
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Cape Farewell 2009: Artists Inspired by Trek Through Andes
We reported last year on TreeHugger founder Graham Hill's trip with Cape Farewell to the Arctic. This year you can feel like you're part of
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New Research Gives Hope for Plant Species Preservation in Deforested Amazon
Current rates of deforestation in the Amazon will have markedly less impact on the number of plant species to likely go extinct by mid-century, new research shows. Rather than the 20-33% predicted by some studies scientists
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Brazil Development Bank to Require Tagging to Stop Deforestation Beef
The positive ripple effect of the Greenpeace's Slaughtering the Amazon report, which showed vividly the connection between cattle ranching and deforestation in Brazil, keeps moving: Mongabay reports that Brazil's
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Los Amigos: Volunteers Vacationing with Scientists
This year, you've decided you want to do more on your vacation than lounge around like a beached whale, eh? Well why not volunteer, but not
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LA Film Festival Abuzz with Green Documentaries
With 200 films from 30 countries, the Los Angeles Film Festival (June 18 to 28) in Westwood near UCLA, seems far from Hollywood. The non-profit that organizes the event "champions the cause of independent films," and though Public Enemies with
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In Amazon, Protecting Rainforest by Policy or Force
Two reports came out this weekend about different methods that are being used to stop economic pursuits from cutting down the Amazon. The first involves legalizing squatters in the Brazilian
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Tropical Deforestation Brings Economic Boom, Followed by Human & Ecological Bust
As light increasingly gets shined on the impact of deforestation on accelerating climate change, we have a new report published in today's issue of Science which show
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Tell Global Shoe Makers to Not Use Brazilian Deforestation Leather (Video)
You may have seen how a new Greenpeace report ties together the Brazilian cattle industry, deforestation and several popular global shoe brands who are using what is in essence 'deforestation leather'. If you didn't see the story the first time around,
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GreenWood: Forestry Management Meets Skilled Craft to Create Sustainable Livelihoods
During my time in Ecuador in 2007, apart from reporting on Kallari chocolate, and interviewing Daryl Hannah and David de Rothschild, I also reported on EcoMadera, a company working hard to promote responsible forestry
