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• Greenpeace Sends President Obama an Urgent Call to Action from Heart of South East Asia’s Rainforests

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 534
  Press release from Greenpeace. “Indonesia is climate change’s ‘ground zero’” Jakarta, 12 November 2009 - As Barack Obama arrives in Asia for his first visit to the region as President and while the United States continues to block progress ahead of the critical UN climate negotiations at Copenhagen next ...
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• New report: boreal forests contain more carbon than tropical forest per hectare

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  A new report states that boreal forests store nearly twice as much carbon as tropical forests per hectare: a fact which researchers say should make the conservation of boreal forests as important as tropical in climate change negotiations. The report from the Canadian Boreal Initiative and the Boreal Songbird ...
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• ST. KITTS IS ON SALE WITH DELTA AIR LINES

  
  Kittivisian Life — Authority: 130
  St. Kitts Celebrates the Start of its Second Weekly Non-Stop Flight from Atlanta with the Delta’s Special New Low Fares Basseterre, St. Kitts The St. Kitts Tourism Authority is pleased to celebrate the commencement of a second weekly non-stop flight from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to St. ...
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• Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Meeting this week in Merida, Mexico, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) has released a declaration that calls for increasing wilderness protections in an effort to mitigate climate change. The declaration, which is signed by a number of influential organizations, argues that wilderness areas—both terrestrial ...
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• The best sector for your money right now

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 118
  Baltimore ( TFN ): I cannot say with total certainty that duct tape has ever saved my life. But I can say it has saved the day on more than one occasion, like the time I fell feet first into a frigid river, roaring with the power of Alaska’s springtime snowmelt. In the woods, you have to dry off fast or risk any ...
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• Leaving On A Jet Plane

  
  Suitably Despairing — Authority: 128
  Why dont you take a little plane ride with me? (If youre reading this via email, you may not be able to see the video. Click here to visit the site and see it.)
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• Citigroup Executive Pulls Out of Sham ACORN Panel Under Pressure

  
  CRC Blog — Authority: 548
  Citigroup executive Eric Eve (pictured below) has resigned from ACORN’s phony, allegedly independent panel, a move that removes one of the few people on the panel who could even remotely claim to actually be independent. If you read between the lines, it also seems to mean Citigroup agrees the panel is a sham. ...
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• Palm oil developers push into Indonesias last frontier: Papua

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Oil palm developers in the Indonesian half of New Guinea are signing questionable deals that exploit local communities and put important forest ecosystems at risk, alleges a new report from Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak.
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• Top 7 adventure activities near Arenal, Costa Rica

  
  Gadling — Authority: 689
  Filed under: Climbing , Hiking , Costa Rica , Ecotourism , Budget Travel , Central America For travelers in search of a little adrenaline, the Arenal region of Costa Rica serves up adventure any way you like it. The area around the Arenal volcano in Costa Rica, about 80 miles north of San Jose in the ...
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• Starwood Hotels Set to Double Portfolio in Puerto Rico

  
  Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Ownership News, Resort Reviews & Guides — Authority: 433
  Global Hospitality Giant Will Open the Sheraton Puerto Rico Convention Center Hotel and Debut the W and St. Regis brands in the Next 12 Months Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) – the hotel industry’s most global company – today announces it will double its presence in Puerto Rico ...
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• Fisher Price Rainforest Jumperoo

  
  Emma in Bromley — Authority: 103
  Having heard other mums talking about how great the fisherprice jumperoo is and seeing all the glowing reviews it gets online, I decided to get one for my baby. Firstly I was shocked by the price - I found it to be about £95 on most websites and then I found there were a few variations - rainforest and precious ...
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• How rainforest shamans treat disease

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long documented the extensive use of medicinal plants by indigenous shamans in places around the world, including the Amazon. But few have reported on the actual process by which traditional healers diagnose and treat disease. A new ...
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• What does Krafts proposed takeover of Cadbury mean for workers?

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 118
  Tim Newman, Campaigns Director, International Labor Rights Forum The businesses world is buzzing over the news that Kraft has made a hostile takeover bid for Cadbury.  For weeks, there has been plenty of back and forth between the two companies in the media and Kraft finally placed its $16.3 billion bid for ...
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• Green Gucci

  
  Centre for Sustainable Fashion — Authority: 121
  Joining forces with Rainforest Action Network (RAN), the Gucci Group has decided to eliminate all paper made from Indonesian rainforests and plantations and by controversial suppliers like Asia Pulp and Paper. The move is a first step in implementing an industry-leading paper policy and a continuation of the Gucci ...
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• Free Rainforest Alliance Sticker

  
  FreebieFox.com — Authority: 128
  Request a Free Rainforest Alliance Sticker. US only.
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• El Portal Rain Forest Center & Walking Trail

  
  Puerto Rico Day Trips — Authority: 112
  El Yunque National Forest (aka "the rain forest") is one of the many places you can visit in the northeastern part of Puerto Rico . It covers 28,000 acres of land and is the watershed for much of the northeast of the island. El Portal Rain Forest Center is the main visitor center in El Yunque National Forest. It ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• Princes Rainforest Project Second Life Concert For Schools

  
  Second Life: Music, DJs, Nightlife, Art, and Creativity — Authority: 129
  Princes Rainforest Project Second Life Concert For Schools MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, 2009 CONCERT SCHEDULE DUBLIN RAINFOREST EVENT PROJECT STAGE http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dublin%202/84/20/2 SLT (PST) Time Artist Name UK (GMT) Time Musician URL 4am SLT Luc ...
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• Free Sticker: Rainforest Alliance

  
  Its All Free Online — Authority: 436
  Get your free sticker from Rainforest Alliance . You can choose between between the two stickers available. Free stickers are sent to US only, however for international residents you can donate to get your sticker. Get your free sticker . View our latest coupon codes that update automatically with the latest ...
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• Wrong Question: Can Biofuels Be Carbon Friendly?

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 417
  The Science Insider blog last week hosted an interesting debate between Tim Searchinger, Princeton visiting scholar, and John Sheehan, of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, regarding the recent policy proposal in the pages of Science by Searchinger et al. to “fix” the carbon ...
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