Green agitators agitate
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Don’t know if it’s the financial crisis, the change of seasons or just the usual grumpiness over the incessant despoiling of the mothership, but the green agitators...
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Sustainable palm oil? Not so fast…
By Ashley Phillips Green Right Now Palm Oil, an ingredient found in most processed food, has been the subject of much environmental debate in recent years over its role in deforestation. It is commonly...
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A parade of palm oil products
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Digging into the palm oil debate, an urgent issue to many environmental groups, our reporter Ashley Phillips found herself slipping into a swamp of material. For...
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Cookies, the ‘Dirty 19′ and the palm oil patrol
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now We had a chocolate attack at a store the other day, so we schlepped over to the cookie aisle seeking something sweet and crunchy. Palm oil products (Image:...
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Palm oil industry’s big carbon impact
By Shermakaye Bass Green Right Now It’s The Year of Living Dangerously all over again. Orangutan (Photo: Tom Theodore/Dreamstime) On Tuesday, two journalists were arrested in Sumatra while covering a...
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Protest launched against General Mills’ use of palm oil
Rainforest Action Network unfurls protest banner at General Mills (Photo: Mercury Miller, RAN) From Green Right Now Reports The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) launched the first fusillade today in a...
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Tree museums, the time is now
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum. And they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see ‘em. By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Joni Mitchell predicted it would come to...
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Teachers, tell your kids about the rainforest and a poster contest for Earth Day
From Green Right Now Reports Earth Day is fast approaching, but it’s not too late for kids in grades K-6 to enter a contest aimed at raising awareness about the loss of rainforests. Tiki the Tiger, a...
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Wildlife Conservation Society releases list of Asian species at risk of...
From Green Right Now Reports Tigers, extinct? It’s not only possible, it’s likely, especially in the many nations that have yet to take action on behalf of this majestic animal. Malayan Tiger cubs...
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Nature in Danger: Orangutans are gentle apes facing extreme threats
By B.C. Riley Green Right Now Part of the genus Pongo, there are two species of orangutan: the Bornean and the Sumatran orangutan. The name comes from two Malay and Indonesian words that together mean...
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Do you know the ‘Snack Food 20′ companies behind the destruction of palm...
From Green Right Now Reports There’s a dirty little story behind the snack foods we’re gobbling on a daily basis. About half of them, which translates hundreds of varieties of chocolates, cookies,...
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