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Open Letter to the Climate Action Network from Deforestation
Watch.org
Climate change is one of the biggest threats facing mankind since the last ice
age. Naturally, many well meaning NGO’s have grouped together to promote action plans that can help mankind [...]

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UK oil giant BP and UK biofuels producer D1 Oils are forming a 50/50 joint venture, to be called D1-BP Fuel Crops Limited, to accelerate the planting of jatropha curcas in order to make more sustainable biodiesel feedstock available on a larger scale.
Jatropha curcas is a drought-resistant, inedible oilseed-bearing tree that does not compete with [...]

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Anti-oxidents from the Rainforest
Needless to say, the Amazonian Rainforest is replete with herbs offering a wide variety of health benefits.  But beyond specific health benefits, like the ability of stevia to regulate blood pressure or sangre de drago to accelerate wound healing or chanca piedra to break kidney stones into a myriad of small stones, [...]

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Business - International Herald Tribune.
Fernando Katukina is chief of an indigenous tribe that lives largely without running water, electricity or links to the world outside this remote corner of the western Amazon.
But Katukina says he possesses a treasure that could be at the cutting edge of biotechnology. If a plan initiated by the chief [...]

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Healthy Energy Drink ‘Bevolution’ is Spreading Across the Continent.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., May 25 /PRNewswire/ — Guayaki is helping to solve the "energy crisis" in America one bottle at a time. The three new Yerba Mate bottled drinks from Guayaki have provided a jolt to the healthy beverage category by combining the robust natural stimulation [...]

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Colombia to step up sales of eco-friendly coffee by 2007.
NEW YORK, MAY 18:  The head of Colombia’s largest coffee growers’ group vowed on Wednesday to make sure that 10% of its total coffee output will be certified by social and environmental programs by 2007.
“There should be, by 2007, about 1 million (60 kg) bags of [...]

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ENN: Environmental News Network [[Affiliate News 1290]].
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Leading global corporations, small businesses, NGOs and individuals helping drive the sustainable certification trend are gathering from around the world at an conference and gala in New York City on May 17th, hosted by nonprofit group the Rainforest Alliance. Participants will discuss the burgeoning importance [...]

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