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POPSTrouble in the Wild For some species it seems it's already too late. They no longer have the numbers needed to sustain existence. But we have seen turnarounds before.
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POPSDestruction of Kenya Forest is National Emergency The problem of Kenya typifies a global problem of destroying the eco systems of the world and its far reaching effects. The Sons of David Foundation in Panama with its paulownia reforestation project is trying to reduce that problem there. You can read more about it at www.paulownianow.org or on their blog www. paulownianow.blogspot.com
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POPSThe Billion Tree Campaign bas become a practical expression of private and public concern over globa
Tree planting remains one of the most cost-effective ways to address climate change. Trees and forests play a vital role in regulating the climate since they absorb carbon dioxide – containing an estimated 50% more carbon than the atmosphere. Deforestation, in turn accounts for over 20% of the carbon dioxide humans generate, rivaling the emissions from other sources. Trees also play a crucial role in providing a range of products and services to rural and urban population, including food, timber, fiber, medicines and energy as well as soil fertility, water and biodiversity conservation. "The Billion Tree Campaign has not only helped to mobilize millions of people to respond to the challenges of climate change, it has also opened the door, especially for the rural poor, to benefit from the valuable products and services the trees provide", said Dennis Garrity, Director-General of the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Centre.
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POPSYes We Will Have No Bananas Amazing the way oil, the rain forest, shipping, and marketing developed and then may lose the banana market... not to mention Mother Nature's assistance/interference.
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POPSIs Jatropha The Solution To The Biofuel Problem? About Centre for Management Technology CMT is dedicated to the provision of the latest global technology and business information in the chemical industry through high profile conferences focusing on renewable, liquid energy sources. CMT has organized industry specific conferences on Liquid Natural Gas, and LPG, ground breaking summit on technologies like Coal to Liquids, Gas to Liquids, and Bio-mass to Liquid, and alternative energy or future fuels forums like Biodiesel, Biofuels and Ethanol. This has established CMT as the market leader in promoting this nascent industry as an alternative global powerhouse.
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POPS"Splash And Dash" Biofuels Scam: Costs Americans Millions
and laying off staff because they cannot compete with cheap American imports. The European Biodiesel Board, an industry association, has submitted a report to Brussels outlining the damage being done to the domestic sector by American imports and calling for trade sanctions against the US in retaliation. The commission is considering the board's report and drawing up "sustainability criteria" to ensure that biofuels are not - as some critics claim - leading to deforestation and a rise in the price of food as farmers convert land for energy crops. Doug Ward, a director of the Argent Energy biodiesel company and UK representative on the board, said he was pleased that MEPs were raising questions about splash and dash. McAvan said she would be seeking reassurances that the sustainability criteria as proposed by the commission would solve the problem of splash and dash and make it illegal to sell biofuels that have been involved in this practice on the European market.
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POPSSeaweed to be used as fuel? Somehow this alarms me--but I don't know enough. I do know that fish-farming is atrocious--it may provide protein but damages the oceans, other wild fish and the fish is tasteless, almost.
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POPSAmazon Rainforest Dwindles In The Rush For Biofuels '' 'It offends me to see fingers pointed against clean energy from biofuels, fingers soiled with oil and coal,' President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said." As the politicians were hurling accusations in Rome, a new Brazilian study indicates that Amazon rainforest depletion is intensifying. Read about it here. Brazil's new environment minister is blaming it on cattle ranchers. That nine-month total surpassed the entire acreage in the Amazon that was destroyed over the previous 12 months, according to DETER data. What's worse, the satellites couldn't see about half of the forest in April due to cloud cover, suggesting that actual deforestation likely was much greater. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/557332.html The minister, Carlos Minc, says Brazil's government will impound cattle caught grazing on illegally cleared pastures with an operation, dubbed "Rogue Bull," to attack deforestation in the rain forest. http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/556812.html
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