<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Biofuels are wiping out rainforests]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/i-repeat/ Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:47:27 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/i-repeat/1 orangutan

Well done, Biodiv.  I just sent my letter, and already got three automatic responses, apparently.  If they are interesting, I shall report.

Aside from the orangutan, which is arguably Indonesia's most famous vertebrate -- or is that the Komodo dragon? -- , the gibbons are also affected.  And my guess is, so is the Malaysian tapir, a very beautiful perissodactyl which lives on Sumatra.  Could you perhaps name some other examples of threatened wildlife?

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

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Well done, Biodiv.  I just sent my letter, and already got three automatic responses, apparently.  If they are interesting, I shall report.

Aside from the orangutan, which is arguably Indonesia's most famous vertebrate -- or is that the Komodo dragon? -- , the gibbons are also affected.  And my guess is, so is the Malaysian tapir, a very beautiful perissodactyl which lives on Sumatra.  Could you perhaps name some other examples of threatened wildlife?

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

]]> Comment #2 by Biodiversivist http://www.grist.org/article/i-repeat/ Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:35:09 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/i-repeat/2 Good work there Canis

How about this?

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KLR127372.htm

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com

]]> Good work there Canis

How about this?

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KLR127372.htm

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com

]]> Comment #3 by Ana Unruh Cohen http://www.grist.org/article/i-repeat/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:36:39 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/i-repeat/3 not just biofuels

At the moment Europe still eats more palm oil than it uses for industrial uses, like biofuels. (See page 13 of this pdf.) So we need to make sure that all palm oil regardless of final use is produced in a sustainable way. Work towards that goal is already occuring through the Roundtable on Sustainable Palmoil. The Netherlands, which import the most palm oil for non-food use in the EU and primarily for use in their electricity sector, are working on adopting sustainability criteria that will apply to all biomass used for bioenergy. I got a copy of their report, Criteria for Sustainable Biomass Production, in English at a recent conference on sustainable biomass. Unfortunately, I can't find the English version on the web, but if you read Dutch you can download the report here.

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At the moment Europe still eats more palm oil than it uses for industrial uses, like biofuels. (See page 13 of this pdf.) So we need to make sure that all palm oil regardless of final use is produced in a sustainable way. Work towards that goal is already occuring through the Roundtable on Sustainable Palmoil. The Netherlands, which import the most palm oil for non-food use in the EU and primarily for use in their electricity sector, are working on adopting sustainability criteria that will apply to all biomass used for bioenergy. I got a copy of their report, Criteria for Sustainable Biomass Production, in English at a recent conference on sustainable biomass. Unfortunately, I can't find the English version on the web, but if you read Dutch you can download the report here.

]]> Comment #4 by Biodiversivist http://www.grist.org/article/i-repeat/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:22:45 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/i-repeat/4 They had better get a move on

I wonder though, if other consumers will just buy the oil grown unsustainably, letting the Netherlands buy that which is (squeezing the water to the other end of the balloon).

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com

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I wonder though, if other consumers will just buy the oil grown unsustainably, letting the Netherlands buy that which is (squeezing the water to the other end of the balloon).

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com

]]> Comment #5 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/i-repeat/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:15:10 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/i-repeat/5 balloon

Thanks, Biodiv, for the reference on Malaysian fireflies, etc.  Yes, ironic, isn't it, that the Dutch are up there among the most vulnerable to the effects of global warming in the developed world (my heart is in my mouth regarding Venice: the Italians will not let it be lost, but the price for its salvation and maintenance will be very very high; and they know, Venice is such a treasure, they will be able to ask from the international community whatever they want, in order to save it), and yet the Dutch have a hand in this palm oil industry.

The water does indeed slosh from one end of the world's balloon to the other.

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

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Thanks, Biodiv, for the reference on Malaysian fireflies, etc.  Yes, ironic, isn't it, that the Dutch are up there among the most vulnerable to the effects of global warming in the developed world (my heart is in my mouth regarding Venice: the Italians will not let it be lost, but the price for its salvation and maintenance will be very very high; and they know, Venice is such a treasure, they will be able to ask from the international community whatever they want, in order to save it), and yet the Dutch have a hand in this palm oil industry.

The water does indeed slosh from one end of the world's balloon to the other.

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

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