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2 rebuilt elementary campuses are ready to open In Palm Beach County, Fla.
2015-07-31 16:51:00| American School & University
Students at Glade View and Rosenwald schools have been housed in temporary locations for 3 years while their schools were rebuilt read more
Starbucks food: May contain deforestation palm oil
2015-07-30 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Concerned about palm oil, but still grabbing your morning breakfast at Starbucks? You might want to skip that scone. According to environmental protection advocate Forest Heroes, the coffee giant, which recently created stricter sourcing policies for its coffee, tea, and cocoa, has yet to take meaningful action on palm oil, which it uses in its baked goods. Additionally, Starbucks only scored 10 out of 100 points on the Union of Concerned Scientists 2015 Palm Oil Scorecard. Why the low marks? Forest...
How to end palm oils unsustainable rule
2015-07-21 17:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: There are good reasons to diversify into other edible oils, but it will take strategic thinking, says Bhavani Shankar. Palm oil is the world's most popular edible oil. Consumption has grown spectacularly over the last few decades -- from five million tonnes and 13 per cent of vegetable oil consumption in 1980 to 57 million tonnes and 35 per cent of vegetable oil consumption in 2013. It is used in a wide range of foods such as biscuits and confectionery, instant noodles and processed milk products....
Publix makes $16M real estate deal in Palm Beach County
2015-07-18 05:52:50| Real Estate - Topix.net
Publix continues its shopping for real estate assets by purchasing a retail plaza in West Palm Beach for $16.25 million. GRI EQY Ibis, an affiliate of the North Miami Beach-based Equity One and Maryland-based First Washington Realty, sold the 80,518-square-foot plaza at 10130 Northlake Blvd. to Real Sub, a subsidiary of Lakeland-based grocery giant Publix.
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Tropical peatland carbon losses from oil palm plantations may be underestimated
2015-07-10 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Draining tropical peatlands for oil palm plantations may result in nearly twice as much carbon loss as official estimates, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment and the Union of Concerned Scientists in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Peatlands -- waterlogged, organic soils -- have developed over thousands of years as carbon storage systems. In Southeast Asia, peat swamp forests cover about 250,000 square kilometers, a land...
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