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BioTrade Butterfly Business
Alas de Colombia, founded in 2001, generates income through sustainable butterfly farming. Alas de Colombia is a refreshing sustainable BioTrade social business that does butterfly farming in order to create income for rural communities. In El Arenillo, Palmira city, Valle del Cauca (a district of Colombia), there are over 300 species of butterflies making it [...]
Mexico Closing Biggest Garbage Dump
Mexico City will close one of the world’s largest garbage dumps by Dec. 31, 2011 and will instead turn the garbage from millions of people into reusable materials and energy. Some 700 trucks that carry garbage to the Bordo Poniente will no longer be admitted as of Monday, and all operations will cease by the [...]
Obama Approves Shell to Drill in Antartica
The Obama administration just approved Shell Oil’s plan to drill for oil in the Arctic, and even though it got its way, the company is still whining about “unwarranted restrictions” attached to this approval such as it can’t drill when winter ice is present. Shell is at the center of a classic Alaska development battle, [...]
Gisele wins Best Green Intl Celebrity
Gisele’s Eco Message on Youtube Gisele Bündchen was named ‘Best Green International Celebrity’ at this year’s Green Awards at a ceremony at the National History Museum in London on November 24. The 31 year old Brazilian supermodel who has preciously starred in campaigns for labels such as Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino and Versace is also [...]
Brazilian SugarCane
Dow Chemical Company aims to make biomass a larger part of its raw material mix with plans for the world’s biggest bioplastic production facility. Building off of current operations in Brazil, Dow will operate the plant as a joint venture with Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co. to make plastic from sugarcane. The venture will initially [...]
Chevron vs. Ecuador in Amazon Forest Case
Between 1972 and 1993, Chevron (formerly Texaco) released 18 billion gallons of formation water into the Amazon forest. This sickened thousands of Ecuadorians with many illnesses including cancer. It also killed farm animals and crops. Water and soil samples taken by an Ecuadorean scientific team after 1998 found almost half still contained unsafelevels of petroleum [...]
Rising Artic Ice Mercury & Sea Levels
The Artic Ice is melting faster than expected and raising global sea level projection. This is causing Mercury stored under the permafrost to be released. What does this meanto all the coastal areas? According to the international Artic Monitoring and Assessment Program, AMAP, a few conclusions are made: Artic Temperatures have been the warmest they’ve [...]
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