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Silva Buckle Brazil's pro-rainforest environment minister resigns		13 May 2008	News
Posted at 4:05 PM on 13 May 2008 Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva resigned Tuesday after six years in office, leading a Greenpeace campaigner to lament that "Brazil is losing the only voice in the government that spoke out for the environment." Silva's policies prioritized environmental protection, particularly for the Amazon; while her policies landed her a spot as one of Grist's fave green politicians, they ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, international politics, news, politics, rainforests (all these topics)

China's coming land grab More hidden costs of our love affair with cheap imported goods	Tom Philpott	11 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, Brazil, China, economy, rainforests (all these topics)

Where in the World? Brazilians and Indians are the greenest, says survey		08 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:29 PM on 08 May 2008 Brazilians and Indians are the most eco-friendly folks in the world, and Canadians and Americans are the least, according to a new survey done by the National Geographic Society. Consumers in 14 countries, representing more than half of the world's population and about three-quarters of its energy use, were ranked on their sustainability in the areas of housing, transportation, food, and co ...
Topics: Brazil, Canada, China, consumerism, green living, India, news, United States (all these topics)

Food crisis resolved! Let's raze more Amazon rainforest!	Tom Philpott	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, Brazil, deforestation, food, rainforests (all these topics)

Trying to Rubber the Right Way Brazil aims to protect Amazon by using sustainably harvested rubber in condoms		08 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 5:53 AM on 08 Apr 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Hard up for ways to preserve the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government has announced it's opening a condom factory that will use rubber harvested sustainably from the imperiled rainforest -- no tree-chopping required. The latex will come from the Chico Mendes reserve, named for a well-known Amazon activist gunned down by ranching ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, health, news, sex (all these topics)

'The Clean Energy Scam' Biofuel boom leveling rainforest, Time reports	Tom Philpott	30 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, Brazil, deforestation, energy, ethanol, rainforests (all these topics)

Razing, a Riot Brazil seizes huge load of illegal Amazon timber after riots		25 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 6:50 AM on 25 Feb 2008 Brazilian troops and police seized about 500 truckloads of illegal hardwood timber from the Amazon rainforest over the weekend, following riots and protests by sawmill workers and others that had forced out environmental inspectors earlier in the week. After the inspectors were driven out, they came back days later with over 450 troops to confiscate illegal timber that the government has ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, news, rainforests (all these topics)

Biofuels: good for agrochemical/GMO biz GMO giant Monsanto wows Wall Street, consolidates its grip on South America	Tom Philpott	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Argentina, Big Ag, biofuels, Brazil, business, energy, food, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

On a Clear-Cut Day, You Can Seed Forever Brazil unveils plan to slow deforestation and soy cultivation in Amazon		25 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:49 AM on 25 Jan 2008 Following Brazil's recent announcement of a dramatic rise in Amazon deforestation in the country in the last months of 2007, the country this week announced new plans to try to slow the destruction. Plans include tapping the army to conduct inspections of known problem areas and keep deforested land from being cultivated or used for pasture, fining me ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, news (all these topics)

Plowing up the Amazon Scientist says biofuel boom endangers world's largest rainforest	Tom Philpott	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, Brazil, deforestation, energy, rainforests (all these topics)

The cash nexus Is there really so much money in environmental devastation that it can't be stopped?	Tom Philpott	26 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, Brazil, business, Canada, energy, oil (all these topics)

Living in Deforest Amazon land settlement said to increase deforestation		23 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Living in Deforest Amazon land settlement said to increase deforestation The Brazilian government is looking into accusations that sketchy sustainable-development deals may have led to increased logging in the Amazon rainforest. After an eight-month investigation, Greenpeace has reported that Brazil's national land-reform agency housed thousands of poor families in rainforest areas valuable to the timber industry, then looked ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation (all these topics)

Brazil be dammed Each country will have to find its own way to carbon neutrality	biodiversivist	17 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, Brazil, energy, ethanol, Sweden (all these topics)

George Soros vs. the planet Soros, Goldman Sachs financing destruction of Brazilian forests	Glenn Hurowitz	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, Brazil, business, carbon sequestration, consumerism, deforestation, ethanol, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Brazil ...	David Roberts	31 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Brazil, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, rainforests (all these topics)

Frankly, Madeira, We Don't Want a Dam Brazil gives go-ahead to controversial dams in Amazon		11 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Frankly, Madeira, We Don't Want a Dam Brazil gives go-ahead to controversial dams in Amazon Brazil has given the preliminary OK for two hydroelectric dams to be built on a major Amazon River tributary. Business leaders, who say the dams will provide much-needed energy, are impressed; greens, who see the project as a disaster waiting to happen, are depressed. Proponents say the Santo Antonio and Jirau dams c ...
Topics: biodiversity, Brazil, energy, hydropower, news (all these topics)

Mongabay highlights for June '07 Some good news and some bad news	biodiversivist	29 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biodiversity, biofuels, Brazil, Costa Rica, endangered species, energy, extinction (all these topics)

Yeah, Right, and Pluto's Not a Planet Research team says Amazon River is longer than the Nile		18 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Yeah, Right, and Pluto's Not a Planet Research team says Amazon River is longer than the Nile Every so often, a news story comes along that is so astonishing, so monumental, that it shakes the foundations of everything you hold dear, leading you to question fundamental truths. This ... is not one of those stories, but it's interesting nonetheless. A team of researchers from Brazil claims to have found a new source ...
Topics: Brazil, Egypt, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Natural gas from dams Dam it all	Gar Lipow	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Brazil, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, hydropower, renewable energy (all these topics)

Bullets flying in Brazil? A bullet train, that is	Ron Steenblik	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Brazil, energy, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

The Route of the Problem Following U.S. consumerism through the fields of China and Brazil	Tom Philpott	12 Apr 2007	Victual Reality
In what surely counts as one of the greatest feats in the history of global trade, the United States has essentially outsourced its manufacturing base to China in little more than a decade. It all starts with shuttered factories. Photo: iStockphoto But in doing so, the U.S. has helped unleash new trends in global agriculture that threaten global climate stability and biodiversit ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Brazil, China, industrial ag, United States, Victual Reality, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Show me the money How to save the last carbon sinks	biodiversivist	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, Brazil, China, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

Information More, please	David Roberts	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Brazil, deforestation, environmental movement, rainforests (all these topics)

One Giant Bleep for Mankind Bush, Brazil sign controversial biofuels pact		09 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
One Giant Bleep for Mankind Bush, Brazil sign controversial biofuels pact Faced with protests and anger at home? Why not escape to a place where you can take solace in ... protests and anger. President Bush is making few friends in Brazil, on the first stop of a Latin American tour that will see him visit four other countries. But he does have a big ol' friend in Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula ...
Topics: Brazil, energy, ethanol, George Bush, news, politics (all these topics)

D, None of the Above Nations squabble over who's responsible for solving climate change		07 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
D, None of the Above Nations squabble over who's responsible for solving climate change Last week, more than 100 countries approved a report saying humans are causing climate change and it's time to find solutions. Remember that show of harmony? Well, cherish the memory, because now some of those countries are rushing to explain why they can't be the ones to find a fix. As U.S. officials publicly balk at emissions caps and Ge ...
Topics: Brazil, China, climate, news (all these topics)

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