Where's the Beef: Will Banning Amazon Beef Doom the Rainfrorest?
theenergycollective.com 7/22/2009 — Veteran conservationist David Cleary knows what's critical for protecting the Amazon: beef. Cleary, the director of conservation strategies in South America for The Nature Conservancy, lived in the Amazon for over a decade and he knows that "the most important driver of deforestation in the ...

Where's the Beef: Will Banning Amazon Beef Doom the Rainfrorest?
greenskeptic.blogspot.com 7/22/2009 — Veteran conservationist David Cleary knows what's critical for protecting the Amazon: beef. Cleary, the director of conservation strategies in South America for The Nature Conservancy, lived in the Amazon for over a decade and he knows that "the ...

Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon?
globalvoicesonline.org 6/7/2009 — National land will be donated to Brazilians in a program called ‘Terra Legal' (Legal Land), a package of measures to boost the government-backed redistribution of land and to establish rules for those who have lived and cultivated national land ...

New report finds Kindle greener than physical books - is that really so?
ecolibris.blogspot.com 9/7/2009 — On August 19 Cleantech Group published a report that was supposed to put an end to an ongoing debate on the question if the Kindle and other e-readers are actually greener than physical books. The release's title was " E-readers a win for carbon ...

First look - Amazon Kindle 2.0
1greenproduct.com 2/13/2009 — In case you haven't heard, Amazon.com recently announced the upcoming February 24 release of its second-generation e-book reader: Kindle 2.What makes the Kindle 2 such an eco-friendly product? After all, isn't this just another electronic gadget that place additional demands on the electrical ...

Human Banner Formed to Defend Amazon Rainforest
ens-newswire.com 1/30/2009 — Quantcast Human Banner Formed to Defend Amazon Rainforest BELEM, Brazil , January 29, 2009 (ENS) - Indigenous people from across Latin America led more than 1,000 World Social Forum participants to form a human banner Tuesday, using their bodies to ...

Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others
pogue.blogs.nytimes.com 7/17/2009 — Amazon removed purchased e-books from Kindles when a publisher had second thoughts about online distribution.

Greenpeace score big wins against illegal deforestation in Brazil
greenmonk.net 7/22/2009 — Cattle are responsible for about 80% of all deforestation’ in the Amazon region. In recent years, on average one hectare of Amazon rainforest has been lost to cattle ranchers every 18 seconds. Analysis by Greenpeace of 2006–2007 satellite data and ...

Eco Friendly Books For Bringing in the New Year
greatgreengoods.com 12/30/2008 — “Making a Living While Making a Difference: Conscious Careers in an Era of Interdependance, Revised Edition” by Melissa Everett gets lots of 5 star reviews over at Amazon for its usefulness as an informative guide to a working life built on principled choices. $17.99 at Amazon  ...

Amazon Deforestation Drops 46% In One Year
treehugger.com 9/8/2009 — Photo via Shazari Despite the fact that logging rates in the Amazon skyrocketed in June , the figures put out by the Deforestation Detection in Real Time (DETER) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) say that it looks like ...