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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indonesian palm oil firms pledge to stop clearing rainforests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Palm oil companies operating in Indonesia pledged to stop clearing forests for new plantations reports <i>The Jakarta Post</i>.  The move is a response to growing criticism that oil palm expansion is destroying biologically-rich rainforests and contributing to global warming.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-palm_oil.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Unilever calls for ban on rainforest destruction for palm oil]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Unilever, the world's largest consumer good company, will start using palm oil from certified sustainable sources this year and aims to have all its palm oil certified by 2015, according to a speech delivered today by CEO Patrick Cescau.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-unilever.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainability conference reveals a rift in the Malaysian Palm Oil Council]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last month's sustainability conference sponsored by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) revealed a rift between some planters and the industry marketing organization.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-palm_oil.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Unilever admits it can't trace origin of palm oil used in its products]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Unilever has admitted to Greenpeace that it can't trace the origin of palm oil supplied by firms operating in Indonesia.  The relevation suggests that efforts to improve the sustainability of Indonesian palm oil have stalled as large tracts of rainforest continue to fall for the establishment of new oil palm plantations on the islands of Borneo, New Guinea, and Sumatra.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0421-greenpeace.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysian palm oil industry puts sustainability in the spotlight]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Seeking to differentiate its palm oil from that produced less responsibly in other countries, the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) sponsored a three-day meeting this week in Kota Kinabalu, on the island of Borneo.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0417-palm_oil_sustainability.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wal-Mart pushes for greener maufacturing in China]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, will hold a meeting of around 1,000 of its Chinese suppliers in an effort to reduce its environmental impact, said Lee Scott, Wal-Mart's CEO, in an interview with the <i>Financial Times</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0407-wal-mart.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The FSC responds to its critics]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last month, Mongabay.com reported on recent and various criticisms of the FSC (the Forest Stewardship Council).  The FSC is an international organization that certifies forest products which, according to their standards, have been harvested in an environmentally-sustainable and socially-responsible manner. Response to the article was significant.  It was picked up by the Ecological Internet's email campaign and was mentioned on numerous environmental web sites and blogs. At the time of the publication, the FSC had not responded to requests for comments.  But in the following interview, FSC International Communications Manager Nina Haase answers each criticism separately and addresses several other issues, such as the FSC and climate change, the organization's monitoring capabilities, and its adaptation to new environmental concerns.  Ultimately she responds to the big question raised by critics: is the FSC stamp still credible?]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0407-hance_fsc_interview.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Poll: Chinese more concerned about the environment than Americans]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A poll released today found that 10.2 percent of the Chinese population lists environmental concerns as the nation's number one issue.  It is the fourth highest concern among the Chinese after health care, employment, and the income-gap.  According to the poll, the Chinese view the environment as higher than corruption, social security, housing prices, and the cost of education.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0407-hance_china_poll.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nike to launch "green" eco-shoe]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When Nike unveils the $185 Air Jordan XX3 this weekend at the NBA All-Star Game festivities this weekend, it will be the culmination of a company-wide effort to reduce the environmental impact of its footwear manufacturing, according to <a target=_blank href=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120303911940170393.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace>The Wall Street Journal</a>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0215-nike.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Video game-makers score low on sustainability]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[While environmentalists, scientists, development exports, and policymakers across the political spectrum are ethusiastic about the idea of offsetting carbon emissions by preventing deforestation (a concept known as "avoided deforestation" or Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)), the concept still faces many challenges, especially in implementation.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1127-games.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Big companies push energy efficiency]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Some of the world's largest companies are pushing green initiatives to improve energy efficiency in office buildings reports the Wall Street Journal.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0905-wsj.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sony launches consumer electronics recycling program]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sony has launched a recycling program for consumer electronics.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0817-sony.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can cattle ranchers and soy farmers save the Amazon?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[John Cain Carter, a Texas rancher who moved to the heart of the Amazon 11 years ago and founded what is perhaps the most innovative organization working in the Amazon, Alianca da Terra, believes the only way to save the Amazon is through the market.  Carter says that by giving producers incentives to reduce their impact on the forest, the market can succeed where conservation efforts have failed.  What is most remarkable about Alianca's system is that it has the potential to be applied to any commodity anywhere in the world. That means palm oil in Borneo could be certified just as easily as sugar cane in Brazil or sheep in New Zealand.  By addressing the supply chain, tracing agricultural products back to the specific fields where they were produced, the system offers perhaps the best market-based solution to combating deforestation.  Combining these approaches with large-scale land conservation and scientific research offers what may be the best hope for saving the Amazon.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0607-carter_interview.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Globalization could save the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon basin is home to the world's largest rainforest, an ecosystem that supports perhaps 30 percent of the world's terrestrial species, stores vast amounts of carbon, and exerts considerable influence on global weather patterns and climate. Few would dispute that it is one of the planet's most important landscapes. Despite its scale, the Amazon is also one of the fastest changing ecosystems, largely as a result of human activities, including deforestation, forest fires, and, increasingly, climate change. Few people understand these impacts better than Dr. Daniel Nepstad, one of the world's foremost experts on the Amazon rainforest. Now head of the Woods Hole Research Center's Amazon program in Belem, Brazil, Nepstad has spent more than 23 years in the Amazon, studying subjects ranging from forest fires and forest management policy to sustainable development. Nepstad says the Amazon is presently at a point unlike any he's ever seen, one where there are unparalleled risks and opportunities. While he's hopeful about some of the trends, he knows the Amazon faces difficult and immediate challenges.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0604-nepstad_interview.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Intel pushes its environmental initiatives]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Intel Corp. said is removing lead from its next generation of computer chips.  Instead the company will use an alloy made up of tin, silver, and copper.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0522-intel.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[IBM launches "green" chip]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[IBM is touting the "green" credentials of its newest and most powerful microprocessor, the "Power6."]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0522-ibm.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indonesia to be recognized in Guinness Book of World Records for deforestation rate]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Greenpeace is using an novel marketing ploy to raise awareness about forest loss in Indonesia: the Guinness Book of World Records. The green group has convinced the publisher of to recognize Indonesia as the "country with the fastest rate of forest destruction on the planet." Indonesia's high rate of forest loss is largely the result of poor forest management and corruption.  Each year thousands of hectares are illegally logged for timber and burned to establish oil palm plantations.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0504-indo.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[$25 million prize to fight global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Friday Sir Richard Branson and Al Gore announced the establishment of a $25 million prize for the development of a technology that fights global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.  The prize follows in the footsteps of the X Prize, a contest that was won by the SpaceShipOne rocket plane as the first privately developed craft to reach the boundary of outer space.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0212-virgin.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Negative messaging not effective for green movement, finds study]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New research suggests that negative messaging is not effective in convincing people to adopt green initiatives.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0926-green.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Virgin's Branson commits $3 billion to fight global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[According to BBC News, Sir Richard Branson will commit all profits from his travel firms, including airline Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains, over the next tend years to fight global warming.  The pledge, worth some $3 billion, was made at the on the second day of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0921-virgin.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Citigroup to cut carbon emissions by 10%]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to environmental and social issues globally, Citigroup Inc. today announced a commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions on a global basis by 10% by 2011.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0125-citigroup.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ford assesses business implications of climate change in new report]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In an industry first, Ford Motor Company has issued a report addressing the business implications of climate change, carbon dioxide emissions and global energy concerns.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1230-ford.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs first investment bank to adopt comprehensive environmental policy]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) today issued a release commending Goldman Sachs for becoming the first global investment bank to adopt a comprehensive environmental policy. The policy acknowledges the scientific consensus on climate change and calls for urgent action by public policy makers and federal regulators to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1122-ran.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nestle introduces fairtrade coffee, eco-friendly product goes mainstream]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For coffee drinkers overwhelmed by choice in the coffee aisles, add this: Fairtrade coffee from the world's number one food group, Nestle.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1007-reuters.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[90% of largest companies concerned about climate change]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More U.S. corporations than ever before now factor climate change into the risks and opportunities faced by their businesses, according to a report released today by the Carbon Disclosure Project, a coalition of institutional investors with more than $21 trillion in assets. Increased interest from the investment community, in conjunction with related macro-economic developments, is encouraging the development of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0918-cdproject.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wal-Mart builds environmentally-friendly store]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.' has built an experimental environmentally friendly store in a northern suburb of Dallas, where the world's biggest -- and notoriously cost-conscious -- retailer is trying to determine whether being green can also be profitable.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0726-walmart.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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