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Eucalyptus in Brazil: Wooing Investors, Ignoring Science
"Eucalyptus plantations are destructive." -- Anne Petermann, executive director, Global Justice Ecology Project[1] Most of the 700 species of eucalyptus are native to Australia. First introduced in Brazil in the early 1900s as an alternative wood source, it become a prime non-native crop there, with plantations taking up 4.7 million hectares, giving the nation the biggest share of world's total of 19.6 million hectares. India comes in second with 4.3 ha, followed by China with 2.6 ha.[2] PRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY "Eucalyptus plantations in Brazil are among the most productive ecosystems in the world...typically producing more ...
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Waste Not, Want Not: The "Cradle to Cradle" Paradigm Gets Competitive
"Companies who embrace this into their strategies and key performance indicators will be the winners of tomorrow. The p...
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Cleantech vs. Keystone XL: Could a Controversial Pipeline Undermine Obama's Case for Green Investment?
"If we don't lead in clean energy, we'll follow. I'd hate to see us replace the importing of foreign oil with the im...
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The Asian Explosion: Searching for Sustainability on the World's Most Populous Continent
"Countries that move quickly down a clean energy pathway will be the economic powerhouses of the 21st century." -- Unit...
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CRISA and Regulation 28: South Africa Boosts Sustainable Investing
"ESG issues are mainstream investment considerations and not peripheral, especially at a time the world is facing serio...
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Air Force: Science and Regulation Dovetail to Give Wind Power a Boost
"The global wind power available 30 feet off the ground is greater than the world's electricity usage, several times o...
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Social Venture Exchange: Funding Social and Environmental Change
Social Venture Exchange (SVX) is a highly innovative concept designed in Toronto, Canada to tackle the perennial proble...
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Green Fireworks Go Green
With the dog days of summer just a hair's breath away, thoughts naturally wander to what for many of us is the period a...
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EPA Energy Star building certifications spark cost and emissions reductions
In March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report on the U.S. Cities with the most Energy Star...
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FedEx Sustainability Soars with EarthSmart EMEA Launch
FedEx, the world's largest express transportation company, announced the launch of EarthSmart, a sustainability program...
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Government Sector Leads the Green Building Movement from the Front
Governments at all levels in the United States have made a significant contribution to the green building movement in r...
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USGBC's Top 10 States List Shows Regional Diversity, Expansion
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recently released a list of the top 10 states for Leadership in Energy and Envi...
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Owens Corning HQ in Ohio Achieves LEED-EB Gold Certification
Owens Corning headquarters in Toledo, Ohio has earned the coveted LEED Gold certification under its Existing Building p...
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Easy Ways to Green Your Home
According to the U.S. Green Building Council, the building sector comprises roughly half of all the green house gas emi...
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Green McDonald's to Educate Customers on Environment
A handful of McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. are seeking LEED certification for green building and operations. The l...
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Server Farms: How Biggest Resource Users Drive Sustainable Innovation
Server farms, also known as data or processing centers, are the nuts and bolts that keep almost 2 billion people worldw...
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Zero Carbon Buildings that Generate their own Energy
Tata Steel Europe, in collaboration with the Welsh Government and the Low Carbon Research Institute has set up the Sus...
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American Power of the Fossil Variety
A Simpsons-esque squat yellow house sits in the shadow of a looming nuclear power plant. A B.P. refinery in Southern C...
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So Fresh and So Clean
What often gets lost in amidst the discussion of our use of fossil fuels is this - fossil fuels are incredibly dirty. B...
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Meat Glue, Pink Slime and Food Transparency
It takes someone with quite the cast iron stomach to hear the words "meat glue" and think "I want some of that". There...
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Go Daddy CEO Kills an Elephant; Tweets About It
Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of the internet domain registering and web hosting service Go Daddy.com - famous for sexis...
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