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Show me the money How to save the last carbon sinks	biodiversivist	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Marcel Silvius recently declared in the Herald Tribune that palm oil is a failure as a biofuel. Rhett Butler over at Mongabay thinks otherwise, as he argues in an article titled, um, 'Palm oil is not a failure as a biofuel.' His main point is that even if America and Europe were to reject palm oil biodiesel as inherently unsustainable, the forests would still be converted to palm oil by China. We can't stop its development by refusing to use it, so we (by 'we' he mean ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, China, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

Information More, please	David Roberts	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
This is a much more significant story than it might appear at first glance: Brazil's government said it will provide free Internet access to native Indian tribes in the Amazon in an effort to help protect the world's biggest rain forest. The environment and communications ministers signed an agreement Thursday with the Forest People's Network to provide an Internet signal by satellite to 150 communities, including many reachable only by riverboat, allowing them ...
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)

If You Blog It, They Will Come A 21st-century gold rush hits the Brazilian Amazon		05 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
If You Blog It, They Will Come A 21st-century gold rush hits the Brazilian Amazon Our fair city of Seattle was once a gold rush town, a way station for loading up on supplies and sex before heading to the Yukon. So we feel an affinity for the mud-caked prospectors combing a remote stretch of Brazilian rainforest in hopes of finding nuggets worth $530 an ounce. We feel pangs of recognition when we hear that the ma ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Samba Lessons What Brazil can teach the U.S. about energy and ethanol	Tom Philpott, Gordon Feller	14 Dec 2006	Main Dish
By Tom Philpott and Gordon Feller 14 Dec 2006 In 2006, Brazil officially achieved "energy independence" -- that is, its oil exports came into line with imports and cancelled them out. No longer beholden to foreign suppliers for its energy needs, the nation theoretically has no stake in costly Middle East military adventures to secure access to oil reserves. Grain alcohol? Haven't touched the stuff since college. Phot ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, energy, ethanol, oil (all these topics)

Stuck in the Middle with Fuel As its neighbors back biofuels, Central America gears up for business	Eliza Barclay	14 Dec 2006	Main Dish
Driving down either of El Salvador's two principal highways, you're almost sure to end up braking behind a pickup truck that's jammed with people standing shoulder to shoulder. Occasionally these rural taxis are new vehicles, but most are rickety, rusted, and running on antiquated engines and exhaust-spewing diesel. Even though 48 percent of Salvadorans live below t ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, energy, ethanol, Guatemala (all these topics)

There'll Always Be an England ... in Brazil Vast new rainforest reserve unveiled in Brazilian Amazon		04 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
There'll Always Be an England ... in Brazil Vast new rainforest reserve unveiled in Brazilian Amazon The Brazilian Amazon will soon be home to the world's largest tropical-rainforest reserve, in news that's making conservationists beam -- and making us feel better about all those pints of Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch we ate to help the cause. The vast tract -- which, at 63,320 square miles, is larger than Eng ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, land stewardship, news (all these topics)

A waste of print space If Friedman had a blog, he'd be learning right now	biodiversivist	17 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Sometimes Dave's remarks border on mustacheism. I suspect it is more envy than malice, and I am not saying that just because I have a mustache. I finally got around to reading the article Dave posted about and have decided to use the Gristmill bully pulpit rather than bury my thoughts (that grew into a diatribe) in the comments, thus boring to tears a wider audience. Sorry you can't read said article without a paying for it. I don't care much for newspapers. This piec ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, cars, food, politics (all these topics)

Why we're not Brazil	David Roberts	01 Jun 2006	Gristmill
BioD already mentioned it in comments, but I thought I'd draw above-the-fold attention to this post from Robert Rapier on The Oil Drum. One often hears that Brazil is the model for biofuels usage: They've come close to achieving energy independence by creating ethanol with sugar cane. As Tom Daschle and Vinod Khosla said in their recent NYT op-ed, "Brazil has it figured out; why can't we?' Rapier explains exactly why: Yes, Brazil has in fact "fig ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, energy (all these topics)

ADM, high-fructose corn syrup, and ethanol A speculation about why ADM's HFCS business is booming.	Tom Philpott	10 May 2006	Gristmill
In the first quarter of 2006, as I reported yesterday, Archer Daniels Midland somehow managed to boost the price of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) despite mounting concern over the sweetener's health effects. The company booked a cool $113 million profit from HFCS over the quarter, more than three times more than it netted in the same period a year before ($33 million). This, despite a slowing domestic market for sweet soft drinks, as consumers increasingly switch to j ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, Brazil, business, ethanol, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

Par� for the Course Tarc�sio Feitosa da Silva fights illegal logging in the Amazon	Michelle Nijhuis	28 Apr 2006	Main Dish
In the northern Brazilian state of Par�, where the mouth of the Amazon cuts into the continent, illegal logging, industrial farming, and a human-driven cycle of massive wildfires are destroying the tropical forests. Since he was a teenager, Tarc�sio Feitosa da Silva has considered it his mission to help protect these forests, and the isolated communities that live within them. Tarc� ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging (all these topics)

The Green Badge of Courage Meet this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize	Michelle Nijhuis	24 Apr 2006	Main Dish
The winners (left to right): Silas Kpanan'Ayoung Siakor, Yu Xiaogang, Tarc�sio Feitosa da Silva, Anne Kajir, Olya Melen, and Craig Williams. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. � Though the connection between people and their surroundings is undeniable -- a serving of clean air, anyone? -- defense of the environment is still sometimes considered antisocial behavior. But this ye ...
Topics: Brazil, China, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Ukraine, United States (all these topics)

Buenos Bios How South American biofuels are gaining steam, and why that freaks the U.S. out	Kelly Hearn	15 Dec 2005	Main Dish
In his drab office in the fashion-obsessed chaos of downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, Edmundo Defferrari cuts a farmhand's figure in a corporate man's world. Soy is growing up down south. Photo: USDA/Keith Weller. The 28-year-old industrial engineer, in cap, jeans, and scruffy beard, taps through a PowerPoint presentation choked with graphs, statistics, and cartoon renderings of ...
Topics: Argentina, Brazil, South America, water pollution (all these topics)

Para Normal Violence against activists continues in the Brazilian rainforest		08 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Para Normal Violence against activists continues in the Brazilian rainforest A trial begins in Brazil tomorrow for two men accused of murdering Dorothy Stang, a U.S.-born nun who had spent 30 years in the Amazon opposing illegal ranching and logging that razed the rainforest and displaced peasant farmers. But despite promises from Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after her death that he would rein in violence in the ...
Topics: Brazil, news, rainforests (all these topics)

We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust! Brazilian cops crack down on Amazon logging gang		27 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust! Brazilian cops crack down on Amazon logging gang In a burst of dawn raids, Brazilian police busted an Amazon logging gang yesterday. Some 400 agents fanned out across five Amazon states and arrested at least 34 people accused of forging and selling permits that facilitated the transport of millions of dollars worth of illegally logged hardwood timber. It marked the ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, news (all these topics)

Beyond a Reasonable Drought Massive Amazon drought may be linked to warm Atlantic waters		12 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Beyond a Reasonable Drought Massive Amazon drought may be linked to warm Atlantic waters With the Amazon rainforest suffering its worst drought in a half-century, Brazil has declared a state of emergency in the hardest-hit area. Some scientists speculate that warmer North Atlantic waters -- the same factor driving the intense Atlantic hurricane season -- are causing more air to rise, and that the rising air is offset b ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, news (all these topics)

So a Priest Walks Into an Environmental Protest ... Brazilian priest on hunger strike to stop water-diversion scheme		06 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
So a Priest Walks Into an Environmental Protest ... Brazilian priest on hunger strike to stop water-diversion scheme Roman Catholic bishop Luiz Flavio Cappio has been fasting for 10 days in a modest chapel 600 feet from Brazil's Sao Francisco River, aiming to halt a massive water-diversion project. The $1.8 billion government plan involves building hundreds of miles of canals and other infra ...
Topics: Brazil, environmental justice, news, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

The Sawn Remains the Same Massive Amazon illegal logging ring busted		03 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
The Sawn Remains the Same Massive Amazon illegal logging ring busted Eighty-nine people were rounded up by Brazilian authorities this week as part of a massive crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, causing a rare outbreak of hope among conservationists that the country's government is finally taking the problem seriously. (The sweep came just weeks after the latest, very grim, data on Amazon deforestation we ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news (all these topics)

Soy Triste Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up		19 May 2005	Daily Grist
Soy Triste Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up More than 10,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest disappeared from Brazil in 2004, the second-highest level of deforestation ever recorded, thanks mainly to the expansion of soy farming. As U.S.-state comparisons are de rigueur in these stories: that's an area the size of Massachusetts. Though Brazil's government imp ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, logging, news, rainforests (all these topics)

Emission Creep Critics question World Bank's role as carbon trader, fossil-fuel funder	Daphne Wysham	25 Mar 2005	Soapbox
For as long as it's been around, the World Bank has been prone to mission creep. Established 60 years ago to rebuild war-torn Europe, it morphed into an institution whose raison d'etre was to help developing countries advance, then refined its focus on poverty alleviation and sustainable development in the 1980s and '90s. During that time, it took on the role of effectively creatin ...
Topics: Brazil, business, climate, India, pollution and waste, South Africa (all these topics)

Oh You Nasty Soy Brazil solves problem of illegal GM soy production by legalizing it		08 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Oh You Nasty Soy Brazil solves problem of illegal GM soy production by legalizing it In a victory for biotech conglomerates everywhere, lawmakers in Brazil last week lifted a ban on the growing of genetically modified crops in the country, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to quickly sign the changes into law. Brazil is now the second-largest producer of soy after the U.S., and for many of its farmers, the measure wil ...
Topics: Brazil, GMOs, news (all these topics)

Sturm Und Stang Nun's murder spurs Amazon protections		22 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Sturm Und Stang Nun's murder spurs Amazon protections Outrage over the Feb. 12 murder of nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang has finally catalyzed Brazil's government to protect the forest Stang worked for decades to save. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in addition to once again pulling logging permits he had restored just a week before Stang's assassination due to intense pro-logging protests, announced o ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news (all these topics)

Nun of the Above Nun slain while campaigning against Amazon destruction		17 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Nun of the Above Nun slain while campaigning against Amazon destruction Through heart-rending tragedy, international attention was focused with unusual intensity this week on rainforest destruction in Brazil. Dorothy Stang, an elderly nun working to slow the devastation of the Amazon by organizing locals against the powerful (and largely illegal) logging and ranching operations bent on expanding the ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news, rainforests, ranching (all these topics)

Brazilness as Usual Amazon forests not doing well		14 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Brazilness as Usual Amazon forests not doing well If Amazonian rainforests are, as the old saying goes, the lungs of the world, then our respiratory outlook is not good. The forests face a trio of threats. There are fire and logging, as poor farmers, cattle ranchers, and agribusinesses clear land for crops or cattle. Then there's "dieback," whereby the forest vegetation dies from lack of water, which is ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, land degradation, news (all these topics)

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